The Grammar Handbook 5

The Grammar 5 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 4 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 9+.

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 (1 lesson per week)
• 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week) 
• Revision and extension of The Grammar 4 Handbook
• Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
• Fun actions for the grammar points

Topics covered include:

• Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3 & 4 Handbooks
• Sentence walls 
• Simple and continuous tenses 
• Contractions and the verb ‘to have’ 
• Adverb placement in sentences 
• Proofreading 
• Prepositional phrases 
• Compound subjects and objects 
• Transitive and Intransitive verbs 
• The order of adjectives
• Adverbs of manner, degree & place, time & frequency  
• Irregular plurals
• Parenthesis
• Homophones
• Antonyms and Synonyms