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Do you know your 'determiners' from your 'prepositions'? Are you struggling with word classes, phrases and clauses?
This book is here to help by:
Telling you what you need to know to teach all areas of primary grammar
Explaining what's good to know to support more able children
Outlining what good teaching of each part of grammar looks like in the classroom
Suggesting classroom activities for all areas of the SPaG curriculum
Also included is a section on the new SPaG test.
List of contents
1.WHAT IS GRAMMAR?
2.STANDARD ENGLISH
3.DIALECT AND ACCENT
4.FORMAL AND INFORMAL LANGUAGE
5.PREFIXES
6.SUFFIXES
7.COMPOUND WORDS
8.PLURALS
9.WORD CLASSES
10.NOUNS
11.VERBS
12.ADJECTIVES
13.ADVERBS
14.PRONOUNS
15.PREPOSITIONS
16.DETERMINERS/ARTICLES
17.CONJUNCTIONS
18.SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS
19.SPELLING
20.HOW TO LEARN A SPELLING
21.PHONICS AND SPELLING
22.HOMOPHONES, HOMOGRAPHS AND HOMONYMS
23.PHRASES AND CLAUSES
24.SENTENCES
25.PARAGRAPHS
26.PUNCTUATION
27.APOSTROPHES
28.BRINGING WRITING TOGETHER: COHESION AND AMBIGUITY
29.THE SPAG TEST
About the author
David Waugh is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the the School of Education, University of Durham where he is also the subject leader for primary English. Kate Allott is Senior Lecturer in Education at York St John University. Kate worked as a literacy consultant in a local authority from the inception of the National Literacy Strategy. More recently she spent two years as a regional adviser with the Primary National Strategy, working on the Communication, Language and Literacy Development initiative.Rosemary Waugh is a linguist and classics teacher at Queen Margaret′s School, York. She collects children′s literature and has lectured on the subject for the University of Hull, and contributes to conferences and publications on children′s literature.
Summary
This book shows trainees what they need to know to teach all areas of primary grammar. It explains how to support more able children and outlines what good teaching of each part of grammar looks like in the classroom.
