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.