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Built to make grammar fun!
Grammar and Spelling Bug gives you expert teaching support for gripping
grammar lessons, plus engaging online practice games and video tutorials
to make grammar lessons a favourite for your children.
Practice games:
• Make a potentially dry
subject lots of fun!
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Flexible guidance and support for teachers…
Grammar and Spelling Bug is a quick and easy addition to your Literacy
teaching to help you tackle grammar, spelling and punctuation confidently.
It covers all of the grammar objectives in the 2014 primary English
curriculum, ensuring you cover everything you need at each required stage.
The finely-levelled progression takes into account all the pre-requisites
and dependencies to help children smoothly move through the objectives.
Great for Sco
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• Finely-levelled so
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• Enable children to
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repeated practice
• Are proven to boost
achievement in grammar
• Allow children to make
mistakes in private –
and try again
• Give children instant
feedback and reward
• Perfect for practice at home
Chock-full of assessment
Diagnostic checks and summative
assessment for each objective help
you keep close track of children’s
progress and prepare them
for the new SAT.
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be one word that all the other words modify. In a noun phrase,
words will be modifying a noun. In the sentence above, “girl”
“the girl” is a simple noun phrase. This can then be expanded
an adjective: “the tall girl” is an expanded noun phrase, albei
straightforward one.
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Expanded noun phrases allow us to communicate precise inform
quick, concise way. The adding of adjectives before nouns is a b
the building of description, and is the simplest way to expand a n
but it requires practice to do well. Redundant adjectives should b
“The soggy, wet flannel”, where soggy and wet say the same t
“The huge giant”, where the adjective is adding no value to the
descriptive noun. Adjectives should be chosen to convey precise
and where they are not needed, simplicity may be best: “The big
powerful Rottweiler” may not tell the reader more than “The R
“The small, cuddly Rottweiler” conveys useful additional inform
Gram
mar and
Spellin
g Bug
1
3 Get Set
Resources
1. Assess children’s understanding
Short diagnostic tests to highlight gaps.
• Shared text (current text, or cross curricular)
• Mini-whiteboards and sentence strips
• Appropriate photographic images
Activities
1. Use a sequence of images of individual objects and or peop
a cat, a child, a bicycle, a car, a house, etc) and in each case c
suggest a noun phrase expanded by an adjective or two (“a sm
aggressive dog”, “her fat, contented cat”).
4. Assess pupils’ progress
With regular summative assessment.
Try 3 free units
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Work quickly, making speed part of the game, but if you suspe
added information doesn’t accurately reflect the picture, allow
judge.
Develop this process by describing multiple details of one pictu
to create a specific effect (e.g. with a picture of a dog: the alert
glistening nose; his bright, intelligent eyes; a cheerful tail).
2.2. Find
Teach
the Objective
a page or scene from the current class novel in which m
With ready-made lesson plans
covering each of the new
attainment targets.
Grammar an
3. Embed the learning
With hundreds of fun online games.
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