The Grammar 6 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 5 Handbook. It provides a full years worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 10+.

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 or punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
• 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
• Revision and extension of The Grammar 5 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 & 5 Handbooks
• Prefixes & suffixes, in particular numerical
• Silent letters: bt, te, th
• New spelling patterns/rules: ough
• Schwas -ity & -ety
• More alternatives: they, great, ballet, fete, straight for /ai/
• New parts of speech: for example, countable and uncountable nouns, gerunds and modal verbs and imperatives
• Further punctuation: using semi colons and colons or using a comma after a fronted adverbial
• Developing a greater understanding of sentence structure and learning to recognise indirect objects, subject complements and passive agents
• Introducing children to literary devices such as alliteration, learning to meaning of idioms and distinguishing between formal and informal writing