Trainee and beginning teachers often find the teaching of grammar, punctuation and spelling especially challenging as they are not confident in their own knowledge. This popular text explores and provides the subject knowledge you will need to teach grammar, punctuation and spelling and gives guidance on how to teach it.
The text is really accessible and includes lots of examples and teaching ideas , enabling you to approach teaching with ease. Detailed examples of effective lessons show you how to engage children's interest in some of the more formal aspects of writing and throughout, activities and practical examples demonstrate how you can translate this learning into the classroom.
This third edition has been updated to include more examples of children's work . A new chapter is added on 'Teaching grammar across the curriculum' to support an integrated approach to the teaching of grammar.
This is Book 12 in the Transforming Primary QTS Series Series. See all Transforming Primary QTS Series books here.
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David Waugh is a former deputy headteacher who has worked in Initial teacher Training (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 a National Strategies Regional Adviser for ITT. He is currently Director of the Primary PGCE at Durham University, where he is also subject l
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