Jolly Grammar 6 – Pupil Book

Children are able to work through the Grammar 6 Pupil book and complete a wide variety of engaging activities, which develop grammar, spelling, punctuation and comprehension skills.

Lessons are provided for 1 Grammar or punctuation topic and 1 Spelling lesson per week for a  year. The teacher is able to support and guide the children with the Grammar 6 Teacher’s Book.

Topics covered include:

• Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Pupil Books
• Prefixes & suffixes and in particular numerical
• New spelling patterns/rules: ough
• Silent letters: bt, te, th
• Schwas -ity & -ety
• More alternatives: they, great, ballet, fete, straight for /ai/
• New parts of speech: for example, countable and uncountable nouns, gerunds and modal verbs and imperatives
• Further punctuation: using semi colons and colons or using a comma after a fronted adverbial
• Developing a greater understanding of sentence structure and learning to recognise indirect objects, subject complements and passive agents
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Introducing children to literary devices such as alliteration, idioms and distinguishing between formal and informal writing