The Grammar 3 Handbook: In Print Letters (American English edition)

The Grammar 3 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 2 Handbook. It provides a full year's worth lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 7+. It provides: • Practical advice and ideas for teaching • Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher •Continues to introduce new grammar elements • 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons • 36 spelling lessons • Revision and extension of The Grammar 2 Handbook • Photocopiable activities • Fun actions for the grammar points Topics covered include: • Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1 & 2 Handbooks • New spelling patters – tch, dge, ure, gn, gh, ex, n for /ng/, s, se and ze for /z/, a for /ar/, y for /i/, a for /o/, ere for /air/, and eer and ere for /ear/ • Suffixes -‘less’, ‘able’ and ‘ful’. • Proper adjectives • Nouns acting as adjectives • Collective nouns. • Pronouns – possessive/subjective and object • The present particle and the continuous tenses • Paragraphs • Subject and object in a sentence • Conjunctions • Questions and exclamations in speech