Jolly Learning

Inky Mouse and her friends encounter many different adventures, in a book designed to teach phonics and the forty-two main sounds in the English language.

The Grammar 1 Handbook follows on from The Phonics Handbook. It provides a full year's worth 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 - 36 spelling lessons - Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook - Photocopiable activities - 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 - a/an/the - when to use - Sentences - capital letters, full stops and speech marks - Parsing - identifying the parts of speech in sentences - Alphabetical order

A collection of songs set to popular tunes for each of the 42 letter sounds. These songs are sung by children (in British English) on the audio CD. Perfect for use at home, one-to-one teaching or smal