Teaching Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling in Primary Schools

by David Waugh, Claire Warner, Rosemary Waugh

Overview

This popular text provides the subject knowledge you need to teach grammar, punctuation and spelling and explores how to teach it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529761061
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/15/2023
Series:	Transforming Primary QTS Series
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.73(w) x 9.68(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

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.

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.

Table of Contents

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