Jumpstart! Grammar: Games and activities for ages 6 - 14

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It’s a process that provides an endless range of possibilities with plain English structure at its core. Jumpstart Grammar will celebrate the joys of language, and coherent expression; of finding just the right words or phrases to express what you want to say. It can help children if you give them categories like animals, things you find in a kitchen, eating something, something you find in the town, something in the countryside, etc.

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This collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities will jumpstart pupils’ understanding of grammar in action. Music can present familiar topics in new and memorable ways, improving the chance that children will retain both the subject matter and the musical ideas…The Beat Goes On team is consistently impressed with Pie Corbett’s work in this area, so we got in touch to see what gems of cross-curricular wisdom he could share.Fun games focus on helping children to hear the difference various types of grammar can make, followed by activities to help them understand what different aspects you can create with grammar. The basic tests for a noun are – can you have lots of them (singular/plural), can you put a/an or the in front of the word?

Jumpstart! Grammar: Games and activities for ages 6-14 Jumpstart! Grammar: Games and activities for ages 6-14

By the time the children are asked to use the terminology, they will have a real grasp of what it’s good for. Pie Corbett, educationalist and bestselling author, is well known for his books on teaching creative writing, as well as many other educational books, schemes and anthologies. SPELD SA is a not-for-profit organisation providing advice and services to children and adults with specific learning difficulties and those who care for, teach, and work with them.The book contains a bank of ideas that can be drawn upon when teaching poetry but also at other times to provide a source for creative writing that children relish. Fun games will focus first on helping children hear the difference various types of grammar can make followed by activities to help them understand what different effects you can create with grammar. Use these games to draw out from the children that a noun is a word that labels or ‘names’ something. It will prepare children for any grammar tests on the horizon in an engaging way so that they love playing with words and spinning sentences to make ideas dance. Fully updated to help teachers deal with the new 2016 Grammar Tests, this second edition presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities that will jumpstart pupils’ understanding of grammar in action It includes coverage of the subjunctive and past progressive, selecting which tense is the most definite, identifying when a word is used as a subordinating conjunction/preposition, explaining how a comma can change meaning, and an increased emphasis on the passive.