The Grammar 1 Handbook follows on from The Phonics Handbook. It provides a full year's worth 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 • 36 spelling lessons • Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook • Photocopiable activities • 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 • a/an/the – when to use • Sentences – capital letters, full stops and speech marks • Parsing – identifying the parts of speech in sentences • Alphabetical order