The Grammar 3 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 2 Handbook. It provides a full year's worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 7+.
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 2 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 Handbooks
- New spelling patters – tch, dge, ure, gn, gh, ex, n for /ng/, s, se and ze for /z/, a for /ar/, y for /i/, a for /o/, ere for /air/, and eer and ere for /ear/
- Suffixes -‘less’, ‘able’ and ‘ful’
- Proper adjectives
- Nouns acting as adjectives
- Collective nouns Pronouns – possessive/subjective and object
- The present particle and the continuous tenses
- Paragraphs
- Subject and object in a sentence
- Conjunctions
- Questions and exclamations in speech
