GRAMMER 6 HANDBOOK PUPIL IN PRINT LETTER

The Grammar 6 Pupil Book is designed specifcally for use with the Grammar 6 Teacher’s Book. Together, they follow on from the Grammar 1-5 Pupil and Teacher’s Books and provide the next year of grammar, spelling and punctuation teaching. The Grammar 6 Pupil Book contains 36 spelling and 36 grammar or punctuation lessons for a full year of teaching children aged 10-11 years. The lessons continue to build upon the knowledge and skills that children have been taught in previous years. There are activities for children to complete in class or as homework, which accompany the detailed lesson plans for the teacher to follow within the Grammar 6 Teacher’s Book. Topics covered include: • Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Pupil Books • Prefixes & suffixes and in particular numerical • New spelling patterns/rules: ough • Silent letters: bt, te, th • Schwas -ity & -ety • More alternatives: they, great, ballet, fete, straight for /ai/ • New parts of speech: for example, countable and uncountable nouns, gerunds and modal verbs and imperatives • Further punctuation: using semi colons and colons or using a comma after a fronted adverbial • Developing a greater understanding of sentence structure and learning to recognise indirect objects, subject complements and passive agents • Introducing children to literary devices such as alliteration, learning to meaning of idioms and distinguishing between formal and informal writing *Please note that only the covers of our Jolly Grammar Pupil Books have been refreshed and updated. The content is the same as the previous editions and they can still be used alongside the Grammar Teacher’s Books. ISBNs and JL codes also remain the same.