The Grammar 2 Handbook

The Grammar 2 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 1 Handbook. It provides a full year's worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 6+.

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 (1 lesson per week)
• 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
• Revision and extension of The Grammar 1 Handbook
• Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
• Fun actions for the grammar points

Topics covered include:

• New spelling patterns – ei, eigh, ture
• Silent letters – b, c, h, k, w
• Syllables
• Identifying the short vowels
• Spelling rules – consonant doubling and adding suffixes
• Tricky word families
• Revision of elements covered in the Grammar 1 Handbook
• Further adjectives – possessive
• Comparatives and superlatives
• Prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Dictionary work
• Punctuation
• Exclamation marks
• Apostrophes
• Further sentence development