Teaching Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling in Primary Schools

Fourth Edition

David Waugh - University of Durham, UK
Claire Warner - Freelance Educational Consultant
Rosemary Waugh - Queen Margaret's School

Series:
Transforming Primary QTS Series

Other Titles in:
Elementary English | English | Literacy

January 2022 | 296 pages | Learning Matters

Trainee and beginning teachers often find the teaching of grammar especially challenging. This popular text provides the subject knowledge you need to teach grammar, punctuation and spelling and explores how to teach it.

Detailed examples of effective lessons show you how to engage children’s interest in some of the more formal aspects of writing. Throughout, activities and practical examples demonstrate how you can translate this learning for the classroom.

This fourth edition has been updated to include new content on developing children's vocabulary. A subject knowledge audit has been added to support you to assess your level of knowledge and confidence and to identify areas for development. All chapters are now linked to the CCF.

Teaching grammar

Words

Why spelling matters

Spelling and phonics

Teaching spelling rules, generalisations and tricky words

Punctuation

Apostrophes

Phrases, clauses and sentences

Putting it all together

Teaching Grammar Across the Curriculum

Appendices including subject knowledge audit

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David Waugh

David Waugh is a former deputy headteacher who worked in ITT from 1990 at the University of Hull, where he led the PGCE course and became Head of Department. In 2008 he was appointed as one of two (the other being Wendy) National Strategies Regional Advisers for ITT. He is currently lectures at Durham University. He has published extensively in primary English, as well as developing e-learning resources for National Strategies for English, mathematics and mentoring and coaching. David also writes children’s stories, including The Wishroom, which was written with 45 children from 15 East Durham primary schools and published in 2017. More About Author

Claire Warner

Claire Warner is an education consultant for Primary English. Her recent roles include working as a senior adviser for literacy with the National Strategies, and as a senior lecturer and leader of undergraduate ITE programmes at Chester University. More About Author

Rosemary Waugh

Rosemary Waugh is a linguist and classics teacher at Queen Margaret's School York. She has a particular interest in the history and development of grammar and etymology, and in their evolution. More About Author

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