The Grammar 5 Handbook is designed to follow The Phonics Handbook and the Handbooks for Grammar 1 to 4.
It provides extensive photocopiable material and a wealth of practical advice for teaching children.
The Grammar 5 Handbook is intended to:
extend and refine the children's understanding of the grammar already taught
introduce new elements of grammar, such as the past participle, transitive and intransitive verbs, phrasal verbs and the perfect tenses
teach new spelling patterns systematically, with particular emphasis on prefixes, suffixes and root words.
improve vocabulary and comprenhension, and introduce homographs, homonyms and heteronyms
further develop dictionary and thesaurus skills
reinforce the teaching in The Grammar 4 Handbook.