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

Illustrated by: Sarah Wade