Core Grammar: Key Stage 3 English

This ‘Core’ boklet focusses on the basics skills as pupils transition from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3 Each element of grammar has a pupil friendly explanation followed by a ‘why we need to know this’ explanation too

Includes interleaved and spaced retrieval practice. Can be used ‘stand alone’ as intervention or homework booklets, or as part of wider curriculum

Core Contents:

Nouns: including concrete and abstract 2
Verbs 5
Adjectives 8
Verbs and adverbs 9
Adjectives and noun phrases 11
Capital Letters 15
Phrases 17
Adverbial phrases 20
Questions, commands and exclamations 22
Paragraphing in fiction 25
Paragraphing in non-fiction 30
Verbs re-visited 32
Adjectives re-visited 34
Adverbs revisited 37
Inserting detail into simple sentences 39
Commas: non-fiction 41
Commas: fiction 43
Compound and complex sentences 45
Metaphor 47