Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar: Developing your students as writers and readers / Edition 1

by Martin Illingworth, Nick Hall

Overview

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:	9781138819290
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/09/2015
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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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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