Are your students struggling to know their 'determiners' from their 'prepositions'? Are they struggling with word classes, phrases and clauses
This book is here to help by:
Giving them what they 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.
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.
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22 Homophones, homographs and homonyms |
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28 Bringing it all together |
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29 The grammar, punctuation and spelling test |
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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 Margarets School, York. She collects childrens literature and has lectured on the subject for the University of Hull, and contributes to conferences and publications on childrens literature.
