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