The Grammar Handbook 1 is for use the year after The Phonics Handbook
• Practical advice and ideas for teaching grammar
• Introduces rudiments of grammar
• 36 structured grammar lessons
• 36 spelling and punctuation lessons
• Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook
• Photocopiable activities
• Fun actions for the grammar points
The Grammar Handbook 1 features the following topics:
• 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