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The Essential Guide to SPaG in the Primary Classroom
- David Waugh - University of Durham, UK
- Kate Allott - York St John University, UK
- Eve English - Durham University, UK
- Rosemary Waugh - Queen Margaret's School
- Elizabeth Bulmer
Series:
Ready to Teach
Ready to Teach
February 2020 | 200 pages | Learning Matters
Are your students struggling to know their 'determiners' from their 'prepositions'? Are they struggling with word classes, phrases and clauses?
This book is here to help by:
Giving them what they need to know to teach all areas of primary grammar
Explaining what's good to know to support more able children
Outlining what good teaching of each part of grammar looks like in the classroom
Suggesting classroom activities for all areas of the SPaG curriculum
Also included is a section on the new SPaG test.
This book is here to help by:
Giving them what they need to know to teach all areas of primary grammar
Explaining what's good to know to support more able children
Outlining what good teaching of each part of grammar looks like in the classroom
Suggesting classroom activities for all areas of the SPaG curriculum
Also included is a section on the new SPaG test.
1. WHAT IS GRAMMAR?
2. STANDARD ENGLISH
3. DIALECT AND ACCENT
4. FORMAL AND INFORMAL LANGUAGE
5. PREFIXES
6. SUFFIXES
7. COMPOUND WORDS
8. PLURALS
9. WORD CLASSES
10. NOUNS
11. VERBS
12. ADJECTIVES
13. ADVERBS
14. PRONOUNS
15. PREPOSITIONS
16. DETERMINERS/ARTICLES
17. CONJUNCTIONS
18. SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS
19. SPELLING
20. HOW TO LEARN A SPELLING
21. PHONICS AND SPELLING
22. HOMOPHONES, HOMOGRAPHS AND HOMONYMS
23. PHRASES AND CLAUSES
24. SENTENCES
25. PARAGRAPHS
26. PUNCTUATION
27. APOSTROPHES
28. BRINGING WRITING TOGETHER: COHESION AND AMBIGUITY
29. THE SPAG TEST
I cannot praise this book enough this is a wonderful reassuring book which would help anyone plan learning and confirm their understanding. Good font size and design. This is one of the best on this subject I have read this year.
Care, Health & Early Years, Cambridge Regional College
March 13, 2020
A great book with practical solutions to support teachers in the classroom, we particularly liked the spelling chapter to support those with dyslexia.
Education and Training, Dyslexia Action
October 1, 2020
This book is very accessible to students and follows key terminology featured in the national curriculum. It has useful explanations and examples of different grammatical terms and some good ideas about how to teach such language features in the classroom. Giving examples of texts that could be used to teach such language features would have been an added bonus.
Faculty of Education, Brighton University
March 11, 2020
