The Grammar 1 Handbook follows on from The Phonics Handbook. It provides a full years worth of 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 (1 lesson per week)
• 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
• Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook
• Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
• 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
• When to use a/an/the
• Sentences capital letters, full stops and speech marks
• Parsing identifying the parts of speech in sentences
• Alphabetical order