Lessons in Teaching Grammar in Primary Schools
- Suzanne Horton - Worcester University
- Branwen Bingle - University of Greenwich, UK
Lessons in Teaching
Outstanding grammar lessons are not about teaching children the mechanics of grammar but fostering a curiosity about language, words and clauses when explored within a meaningful context. This book offers practical ideas and lesson plans to help you plan and teach lessons that motivate, engage and inspire pupils to use grammar accurately and creatively to produce writing that is fluid, cohesive and purposeful. It will also help you to teach grammar confidently and effectively by addressing your own grammar questions and providing essential subject knowledge. The lesson ideas have all been tried and tested in the classroom, and you can adapt the lessons to teach other aspects of grammar or change the focus of the learning objective to reflect the needs of your classroom. Did you know that this book is part of the Lessons in Teaching series?
Table of Contents What is Grammar? / Grammar in context / Year 1: Teaching Sentence Demarcation / Year 2: Teaching Conjunctions / Year 3: Teaching Direct Speech / Year 3: Using the Perfect Tense / Year 4: Teaching adverbial phrases / Year 4: Teaching the Difference between the Plural and Possessive -s / Year 5: Teaching Modal Verbs / Year 5: Teaching Expanded Noun Phrases / Year 6: Using the Subjunctive Form in Speech / Year 6: Using the Passive Voice / Moving On / Glossary of Terms
WHAT IS THE LESSONS IN TEACHING SERIES?
Suitable for any teacher at any stage of their career, the books in this series are packed with great ideas for teaching engaging, outstanding lessons in your primary classroom. The Companion Website accompanying the series includes extra resources including tips, lesson starters, videos and Pinterest boards. Books in this series: Lessons in Teaching Grammar in Primary Schools, Lessons in Teaching Computing in Primary Schools, Lessons in Teaching Number and Place Value in Primary Schools, Lessons in Teaching Reading Comprehension in Primary Schools, Lesson in Teaching Phonics in Primary Schools
Supplements
Includes extra resources to support classroom teaching including, tips, lesson starters, videos and handy Pinterest boards.
This is clear step by step for each year group of how to teach grammar but also helps secure the teachers subject knowledge.
This is a useful text which gives lots of practical ideas. The layout is appealing to the reader and there are some good links to other texts and to children's literature.
I realyy enjoyed this boook and will be recommending it to our students.
The layout is excellent with links to the Teachers' standards, activities and quotes making it an easy read and very informative!
Mnay beginning primary teachers lack the confidence of terminology and the grammatical accuracy necessary for teaching early writers, this book will help provide confidence and competence in their teaching practice.
This book clearly illustrates the need for the teaching of grammar in primary schools - it has supported my teaching in this important area
