The Grammar 3 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 2 Handbook. It provides a full year's worth lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 7+. 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
• 36 spelling lessons
• Revision and extension of The Grammar 2 Handbook
• Photocopiable activities
• Fun actions for the grammar points Topics covered include:
• Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1 & 2 Handbooks
• New spelling patters – tch, dge, ure, gn, gh, ex, n for /ng/, s, se and ze for /z/, a for /ar/, y for /i/, a for /o/, ere for /air/, and eer and ere for /ear/
• Suffixes -‘less’, ‘able’ and ‘ful’.
• Proper adjectives
• Nouns acting as adjectives
• Collective nouns.
• Pronouns – possessive/subjective and object
• The present particle and the continuous tenses
• Paragraphs
• Subject and object in a sentence
• Conjunctions
• Questions and exclamations in speech