The Grammar 1 Handbook is for use the year after The Phonics Handbook • Practical advice and ideas for teaching grammar • Introduces rudiments of grammar • 36 structured grammar lessons • 36 spelling and punctuation lessons • Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook • Photocopiable activities • Fun actions for the grammar points The Grammar 1 Handbook features the following topics: • 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