Essential Primary Grammar

Uniquely, the book takes a systematic step-by-step approach to explain the grammatical terminology specified in the national curriculum. It also illustrates how you might develop children’s grammatical knowledge by offering a range of practical activities which are rich, meaningful and support children’s development as confident and curious language investigators.

Key features include:

• Easy-to-read chapters which systematically focus on grammatical subject knowledge at word, phrase and clause level
• Guidance in each chapter addressing typical grammar problems or misconceptions, and some grammar jokes
• Inspiring suggestions for teaching activities to help children develop grammatical knowledge in meaningful learning contexts
• Reference to authentic children’s books to illuminate the grammatical explanations and suggested teaching activities
• Ideas on how high quality talk about grammar and texts can be fostered in the classroom