The Grammar 4 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 3 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 8+.

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 (1 lesson per week)
• 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
• Revision and extension of The Grammar 3 Handbook
• Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
• Fun actions for the grammar points

Topics covered include:

• Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2 & 3 Handbooks
• Nouns acting as concrete/ abstract/possessives
• The present participle as an adjective
• Onomatopoeia
• Agreements
• Clauses/independent clauses
• Hyphens
• Sentence writing – statements and questions, compound sentences
• Parsing verbs
• Infinitives
• Antonyms and Synonyms
• Homophones