Elizabeth Bulmer & Eve English 
The Essential Guide to SPaG in the Primary Classroom 

Do you know your ′determiners′ from your ′prepositions′?  Are you struggling with word classes, phrases and clauses?  



This book is here to help by:



Telling you 
what you need to know to teach all areas of primary grammar

Explaining 
what′s good to know to support more able children

Outlining what good teaching of each part of grammar looks like 
in the classroom 
Suggesting
 classroom activities for all areas of the SPa G curriculum



Also included is a section on the new 
SPa G test.

Innehållsförteckning

1. WHAT IS GRAMMAR?

2. STANDARD ENGLISH

3. DIALECT AND ACCENT

4. FORMAL AND INFORMAL LANGUAGE

5. PREFIXES

6. SUFFIXES

7. COMPOUND WORDS

8. PLURALS

9. WORD CLASSES

10. NOUNS

11. VERBS

12. ADJECTIVES

13. ADVERBS

14. PRONOUNS

15. PREPOSITIONS

16. DETERMINERS/ARTICLES

17. CONJUNCTIONS

18. SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS

19. SPELLING

20. HOW TO LEARN A SPELLING

21. PHONICS AND SPELLING

22. HOMOPHONES, HOMOGRAPHS AND HOMONYMS

23. PHRASES AND CLAUSES

24. SENTENCES

25. PARAGRAPHS

26. PUNCTUATION

27. APOSTROPHES

28. BRINGING WRITING TOGETHER: COHESION AND AMBIGUITY

29. THE SPAG TEST

Om författaren

Rosemary Waugh is a linguist and classics teacher at Queen Margaret′s School, York. She collects children′s literature and has lectured on the subject for the University of Hull, and contributes to conferences and publications on children′s literature.