The Essential Guide to SPaG in the Primary Classroom

David Waugh · Kate Allott · Eve English · Rosemary Waugh · Elizabeth Bulmer

jan. 2020 · Learning Matters

Om den här e-boken

Do you know your ′determiners′ from your ′prepositions′? Are you struggling with word classes, phrases and clauses?

This book is here to help by:

Telling you what you need to know to teach all areas of primary grammar
Explaining what′s good to know to support more able children
Outlining what good teaching of each part of grammar looks like in the classroom
Suggesting classroom activities for all areas of the SPaG curriculum

Also included is a section on the new SPaG test.

Om författaren

David Waugh is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the the School of Education, University of Durham where he is also the subject leader for primary English.

Kate Allott is Senior Lecturer in Education at York St John University. Kate worked as a literacy consultant in a local authority from the inception of the National Literacy Strategy. More recently she spent two years as a regional adviser with the Primary National Strategy, working on the Communication, Language and Literacy Development initiative.

Rosemary Waugh is a linguist and classics teacher at Queen Margaret′s School, York. She collects children′s literature and has lectured on the subject for the University of Hull, and contributes to conferences and publications on children′s literature.