Language Works Book 1
Grammar in Context
Published on 29. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-521-69254-0 (ISBN)
Description
Language Works: Grammar in Context is a series of workbooks for students from Years 1 to 6. Each book consists of 28 to 30 units per year, based on 10 weeks/term, including long weekends, and school testing requirements. Each unit focuses on a specific grammatical concept. Units will run in the same order in all books. Grammar features will be consistent in all years so that teachers of multi-age or multi-ability groupings can cover the same grammatical concept with all students at the same time.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-69254-0 (9780521692540)
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Persons
Bill Spence has taught across all primary years and has had extensive experience developing state-wide literacy policies and supporting teachers as a consultant. He is a well-published author, providing teachers and parents with books and articles on strategies to support students' literacy achievements. Sue Bremner works in NSW schools, and trained as a primary school teacher. She has worked as a classroom teacher, an English as a second Language (ESL) teacher as well as a consultant, teacher-educator and policy adviser in compulsory education for many years. Sue has produced a number of well-received materials, in paper and electronic form, designed for busy educators. She maintains a passion for the teaching of literacy, and grammar in particular, to younger learners.
Content
1. Letters and sounds - playing with words; 2. Go, go, go, stop! - action verbs; 3. That's its name! - naming words; 4. In our school, on our playground - adverbs of place; 5. You and I - personal pronouns; 6. He ran, he fell, he got up! - verbs; 7. Sam is my brother - linking verbs; 8. Five little monkeys - quantity adjectives; 9. Today - time adverbs; 10. Let's write - recounts; 11. The rare chair has a tear - rhyme; 12. Bigger and better - comparative adjectives; 13. Roaring and howling - saying or talking verbs; 14. One dog and two cats = three pets - plurals; 15. Quickly and quietly - adverbs of manner; 16. The cat sat on the mat - a simple sentence; 17. This book is mine - more pronouns; 18. Look at the fat cat - sentences that command; 19. Let's write - instructions; 20. The long red scarf - making better noun groups; 21. Where is it? - prepositions; 22. Sam hit the ball - subject-verb agreement; 23. And, and, and - joining words; 24. Cold as ice - similes; 25. Sit and sat - verb forms; 26. Yes, no, maybe - making positive and negative statements; 27. The rabbit in the hole - adjectival phrases; 28. Let's write - a description; Answers.