Book 5 - Support for Basic Grammar Series

Book 5 - Support for Basic Grammar Series

$15.95

Reading ages 5 to 7

This series supports the teaching of basic grammar and punctuation skills. The books are incremental in difficulty. They can be used in a systematic structured way or used to complement any other grammar work or text level work being undertaken.

Individual books RRP $15.95

Complete set RRP $143.55 on sale for a limited time

Introductory book

This book deals with:

  • composing and punctuating simple sentences (including questions)

  • introducing nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.

Support for Basic Grammar 1

Book 1 deals with:

  • composing and punctuating simple sentences

  • introducing nouns (common and proper)

  • questions and joining sentences using the conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘but’.

Support for Basic Grammar 2

Book 2 deals with:

  • verbs (simple present tense, subject/verb agreement, using irregular past tense correctly)

  • questions

  • exclamation marks

  • commas in lists

  • use of speech bubbles and speech marks.

Support for Basic Grammar 3

Book 3 deals with:

  • verbs (with similar meanings: present and past tense; the verb ‘to be’)

  • nouns (proper nouns, singular, plural and collective nouns)

  • using speech marks in direct speech.

Support for Basic Grammar 4

Book 4 deal with:

  • adjectives (used in a variety of situations; categorising them according to type; opposites)

  • using commas demarcating grammatical boundaries in sentences

  • pronouns (personal and possessive)

  • subject/verb agreement

  • conjunctions.

Support for Basic Grammar 5

Book 5 deals with:

  • verb tenses (the present simple and continuous, the past simple using regular and irregular verbs, the future tense)

  • adverbs (understanding their function, formation, and using synonymous adverbs)

  • apostrophes in contractions.

Support for Basic Grammar 6

Book 6 deals with:

  • adjectives (comparative and superlative adjectives which are suffixed by the addition of ‘er’ and ‘est’

  • longer comparative and superlative adjectives which are preceded by either ‘more’ or ‘most’; making adjectives from nouns

  • the use of similes as descriptors)

  • possessive apostrophes (both singular and plural)

  • sentences (looking at the four basic types of sentences

  • stressing the importance of word order within sentences

  • extending or contracting sentences).

Support for Basic Grammar 7

Book 7 deals with:

  • verbs (the use of verbs in different types of text, selecting verbs to express meaning more accurately and the use of auxiliary or helper, verbs)

  • commas

  • phrases

  • conjunctions for joining sentences together and prepositions.

Support for Basic Grammar 8

Book 8 deals with:

  • direct and reported speech

  • subject and verb agreement

  • use of standard English

  • double negatives

  • homonyms

  • concrete and abstract nouns

  • experimenting with shortening sentences by taking out adjectives and adverbs and substituting synonyms in sentences whilst attempting to retain their essential meaning.

Quantity:
Add To Cart