The Grammar 2 Handbook: In Print Letters (American English edition)

The Grammar 2 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 1 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 6+. It provides: * Practical advice and ideas for teaching * Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher * Introduces rudiments of grammar * 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons * 36 spelling lessons * Revision and extension of The Grammar 1 Handbook * Photocopiable activities * Fun actions for the grammar points Topics covered include: * New spelling patterns - ei, eigh, ture * silent letters - b, c, h, k, w * Syllables * identifying the short vowels * Spelling rules - consonant doubling and adding suffixes * Tricky word families * revision of elements covered in the Grammar Handbook 1 * Further adjectives - possessive * Comparatives and superlatives * Prepositions * Conjunctions * Dictionary work * punctuation * Exclamation marks * Apostrophes * Further sentence development