The Grammar 1 Handbook follows on from The Phonics Handbook. It provides a full year's worth lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 5+. It provides: * Practical advice and ideas for teaching * Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
* Introduces rudiments of grammar
* 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons
* 36 spelling lessons
* Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook
* Photocopiable activities
* Fun actions for the grammar points Topics covered include: * Vowel digraphs * Alternative spellings of vowel sounds
* Plural endings * Short vowels and consonant doubling
* Tricky words * Consonant blends * Nouns - proper/common/plurals
* Personal pronouns *Verbs * Conjugating verbs - present/past/future
* Adjectives * Adverbs * a/an/the - when to use
* Sentences - capital letters, full stops and speech marks
* Parsing - identifying the parts of speech in sentences
* Alphabetical order