The Grammar Handbooks – Phonics Company

The Grammar Handbooks
Jolly Grammar Glossary £3.80
The Jolly Grammar Glossary is a detailed glossary of terms used in Jolly Grammar.

This Grammar Glossary defines all of the terms used in Jolly Grammar and more, from ‘abstract noun’ to ‘word family’. A handy guide at the back of the book shows all of the Jolly Grammar actions, making this the ideal reference resource for every teacher’s desk.
The Grammar Handbooks
The Grammar 1 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 1 Handbook follows on from The Phonics Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling, and punctuation to children aged 5+.

It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Introduces rudiments of grammar
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Vowel digraphs
- Alternative spellings of vowel sounds
- Plural endings
- Short vowels and consonant doubling
- Tricky words
- Consonant blends
- Nouns – proper/common/plurals
- Personal pronouns
- Verbs Conjugating verbs – present/past/future
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- When to use a/an/the
- Sentences – capital letters, full stops and speech marks
- Parsing – identifying the parts of speech in sentences
- Alphabetical order
The Grammar Handbooks
The Grammar 2 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 2 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 1 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling, and punctuation to children aged 6+.

It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Introduces rudiments of grammar
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 1 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- New spelling patterns – ei, eigh, ture
- Silent letters – b, c, h, k, w
- Syllables
- Identifying the short vowels
- Spelling rules – consonant doubling and adding suffixes
- Tricky word families
- Revision of elements covered in the Grammar 1 Handbook
- Further adjectives – possessive
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Dictionary work
- Punctuation
- Exclamation marks
- Apostrophes
- Further sentence development
The Grammar Handbooks
The Grammar 3 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 3 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 2 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 7+.

It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Continues to introduce new grammar elements
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 2 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1 & 2 Handbooks
- New spelling patters – tch, dge, ure, gn, gh, ex, n for /ng/, s, se and ze for /z/, a for /ar/, y for /i/, a for /o/, ere for /air/, and eer and ere for /ear/
- Suffixes -‘less’, ‘able’ and ‘ful’
- Proper adjectives
- Nouns acting as adjectives
- Collective nouns Pronouns – possessive/subjective and object
- The present particle and the continuous tenses
- Paragraphs
- Subject and object in a sentence
- Conjunctions
- Questions and exclamations in speech
The Grammar Handbooks
The Grammar 4 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 4 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 3 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 8+.

It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Continues to introduce new grammar elements
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 3 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2 & 3 Handbooks
- Nouns acting as concrete/ abstract/possessives
- The present participle as an adjective
- Onomatopoeia
- Agreements
- Clauses/independent clauses
- Hyphens
- Sentence writing – statements and questions, compound sentences
- Parsing verbs
- Infinitives
- Antonyms and Synonyms
- Homophones
The Grammar Handbooks
The Grammar 5 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 5 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 4 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 9+.

It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Continues to introduce new grammar elements
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 4 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3 & 4 Handbooks
- Sentence walls
- Simple and continuous tenses
- Contractions and the verb ‘to have’
- Adverb placement in sentences
- Proofreading
- Prepositional phrases
- Compound subjects and objects
- Transitive and Intransitive verbs
- The order of adjectives
- Adverbs of manner, degree & place, time & frequency
- Irregular plurals
- Parenthesis
- Homophones
- Antonyms and Synonyms
The Grammar Handbooks
The Grammar 6 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 6 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 5 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 10+.

It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Continues to introduce new grammar elements
- 36 structured grammar or punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 5 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Handbooks
- Prefixes & suffixes, in particular numerical
- Silent letters: bt, te, th
- New spelling patterns/rules: ough
- 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
- Introducing children to literary devices such as alliteration, learning to meaning of idioms and distinguishing between formal and informal writing