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