Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar: Developing your students as writers and readers

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ISBN-10:: 113881928X
ISBN-13:: 9781138819283
Pub. Date:: 11/24/2015
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis

ISBN-10:: 113881928X
ISBN-13:: 9781138819283
Pub. Date:: 11/24/2015
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis

Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar: Developing your students as writers and readers

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138819283
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/24/2015
Series:	National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

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

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

Questioning

Sentences

Marginal commentaries

Collecting signs

Guiding the reader

The grammar of speech

Being silly with grammar

Your attitude towards grammar

Favourite words

Syntax

Dictionaries

Stop pee-ing!

Significance and value

Exploding sentences

Grammar working wall

Finding your voice – Auto/ biography

Handwriting

Writing for real audiences

Chasing the dream

Telling stories

Twitter stories

Just because it is

New punctuation marks and emoticons

Grammar t-shirts

Sorting out confusing words

High frequency language

Broadening active vocabulary

Re/drafting

Patterns and exceptions

Top ten spelling tips

Big, deep and wide questions

Making up new words

Difficult words/ punctuation

Cut and paste fun

Dramatic readings

The grammar of photography

Innate competence

Word classes

Explicit modelling of writing

Ask the author

Flexing your vocabulary brain

Redundancy in language

A glossary of terms

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