Overview

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.

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Author:   David Waugh ,  Kate Allott ,  Eve English ,  Rosemary Waugh
Publisher:   Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Learning Matters Ltd
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781529715910

ISBN 10:   1529715911
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table 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

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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 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.

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