The Grammar 6 Handbook ISBN: 9781844144723

The Grammar 6 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 5 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 10+. It provides: Practical advice and ideas for teaching Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher Continues to introduce grammar elements 36 structured grammar or punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week) 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week) Revision and extension of The Grammar 5 Handbook Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete Fun actions for the grammar points Topics covered include: Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Handbooks Prefixes & suffixes, in particular numerical Silent letters: bt, te, th spelling patterns/rules: ough Schwas -ity & -ety More alternatives: they, great, ballet, fete, straight for /ai/ parts of speech: for example, countable and uncountable nouns, gerunds and modal verbs and imperatives Further punctuation: using semi colons and colons or using a comma after a fronted adverbial Developing a greater understanding of sentence structure and learning to recognise indirect objects, subject complements and passive agents Introducing children to literary devices such as alliteration, learning to meaning of idioms and distinguishing between formal and informal writing.