The Grammar 5 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 4 Handbook. It provides a full years worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 9+.

It provides:

• Practical advice and ideas for teaching
• Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
• Continues to introduce new grammar elements
• 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
• 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
• Revision and extension of The Grammar 4 Handbook
• Photocopiableworksheets for children to complete
• Fun actions for the grammar points

Topics covered include:

• Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3 & 4 Handbooks
• Sentence walls
• Simple and continuous tenses
• Contractions and the verb to have
• Adverb placement in sentences
• Proofreading
• Prepositional phrases
• Compound subjects and objects
• Transitive and Intransitive verbs
• The order of adjectives
• Adverbs of manner, degree & place, time & frequency
• Irregular plurals
• Parenthesis
• Homophones
• Antonyms and Synonyms