Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar

"This book part of a series co-published with the National Association for the Teaching of English takes into account the latest standards and expectations, but thoughtfully contextualises them within the bigger picture of what students genuinely need to know, and why, before suggesting creative and relevant ways to improve learners' language skills across the curriculum. It's positive, inspiring and enormously sensible if you only read one book about teaching grammar this year, make it this one. And if you weren't planning on reading any; change your mind." **Teach Secondary

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Martin Illingworth is Senior Lecturer in English Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Nick Hall is the Director of Teach First East Midlands, UK.

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Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar is an easily accessible, practical guide full of ideas to support teachers in making the learning of grammar a natural part of developing their students as writers and as readers. Written for those teaching years 5,6,7 and 8, the authors' approach concentrates on the individual needs of students rather than of a year group as a whole.

Split into two main sections, the first looks at creative ways of exploring grammar and includes more than forty ideas that can be implemented into the classroom. This section can be used as a quick resource or the whole sequence can be followed to ensure students are investigating, exploring and having fun with grammar.

The second section includes an extensive glossary of terms to develop a full understanding of grammar which can be used to audit your own competences and highlight areas for further development.

Creative ideas explored include:

• Being silly with grammar

• Favourite words

• Exploding sentences

• Writing for real audiences

• New punctuation marks and emoticons

• Sorting out confusing words

• Broadening active vocabulary

• Top ten spelling tips

• Flexing your vocabulary brain

• Redundancy in language
  Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar is a truly practical guide that is a must read for anyone teaching grammar to years 5,6,7 and 8. With plenty of ideas to implement into the classroom it encourages students to take ownership of their own learning and progress.

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Teachers of Key Stage Two

Teachers of Key Stage Three

The problem with transition

Auditing your knowledge

Levels of understanding in testing

Relevance

Ideas for teaching grammar

1. Questioning

2. Sentences

3. Marginal commentaries

4. Collecting signs

5. Guiding the reader

6. The grammar of speech

7. Being silly with grammar

8. Your attitude towards grammar

9. Favourite words

10. Syntax

11. Dictionaries

12. Stop pee-ing!

13. Significance and value

14. Exploding sentences

15. Grammar working wall

16. Finding your voice - Auto/ biography

17. Handwriting

18. Writing for real audiences

19. Chasing the dream

20. Telling stories

21. Twitter stories

22. Just because it is

23. New punctuation marks and emoticons

24. Grammar t-shirts

25. Sorting out confusing words

26. High frequency language

27. Broadening active vocabulary

28. Re/drafting

29. Patterns and exceptions

30. Top ten spelling tips

31. Big, deep and wide questions

32. Making up new words

33. Difficult words/ punctuation

34. Cut and paste fun

35. Dramatic readings

36. The grammar of photography

37. Innate competence

38. Word classes

39. Explicit modelling of writing

40. Ask the author

41. Flexing your vocabulary brain

42. Redundancy in language A glossary of terms