Jolly Literacy: Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation, Teacher's Book 1

Designed to accompany the Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation  Pupil Book 1, the Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation Teacher's Book 1 (Precursive letters) provides detailed lesson guidance for teaching spelling and grammar to children in the year after Jolly Phonics.

Clear, child-friendly descriptions of grammar points are given and described in depth.

The structured lesson guides in the Grammar 1 Teacher’s Book correspond to the activity pages in the Grammar 1 Pupil Book, and provide material for teaching 1 Spelling and 1 Grammar/Punctuation lesson per week for a year.

Plenty of teaching ideas and extension activities are also included.

Topics covered include:

• Vowel digraphs
• Alternative spellings of vowel sounds
• Plural endings
• Short vowels and consonant doubling
• Tricky words
• Consonant blends
• Nouns – proper/common/plurals
• Personal pronouns
• Verbs
• Conjugating verbs – present/past/future
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• a/an/the – when to use
• Sentences – capital letters, full stops and speech marks
• Parsing – identifying the parts of speech in sentences
• Alphabetical order