Challenging grammar

Addressing the most challenging grammar topics introduced at KS2 and revisited at KS3, this pack is essential for teaching and consolidating grammar in years 5-8.

The comprehensive teaching notes provide a valuable curriculum support for teachers, while the wide range of resources and activities ensures that students have high-quality opportunities to apply and extend their learning – including in cross-curricular contexts. Each topic also includes KS2 SAT style questions in preparation for the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test (Paper 1) at the end of year 6.

What’s included?
The grammar topics are organised into three sections (teach, practise, apply), and each topic includes the following:

• definitions and explanations for teachers
• PowerPoint presentations
• student-friendly teaching resources
• extended writing opportunities.

The pack is organised in the following topics:
Relative clauses
Modal verbs and adverbs
Adverbials
Perfect forms of verbs
Parenthesis
Commas
Passive verbs
Subjunctive verb forms
Colons and semi-colons

What’s inside?
Introduction (pages 4-6)
Relative clauses (pages 7-33)
Resource - people, places and things
Resource - improve by adding a relative clause
Resource - possessive relative clauses
Resource - relative clauses of time and place (when and where)
Resource - the unusual suspects

Modal verbs and adverbs (pages 34-50)
Resource - strengthening and weakening
Resource - school rules
Resource - be the detective

Adverbial phrases (pages 51-71)
Resource - identify adverbials
Resource - painting a picture
Resource - narrative

Perfect forms (pages 72-95)
Resource - find the perfect verb form
Resource - perfect verb forms in texts
Resource - time-travelling verbs
Resource - perfect verb form timeline
Resource - job application
Resource - my day
Resource - perfect form dice
Resource - ‘of’ or ‘have’

Parenthesis (pages 96-115)
Resource - using brackets to indicate parenthesis
Resource - using commas to indicate parenthesis
Resource - extending simple sentences using parenthesis
Resource - nicknames as parenthesis

Commas (pages 116-140)
Resource - the Oxford comma
Resource - add the comma
Resource - combining sentences
Resource - ambiguous meaning

Passive verbs (pages 141-165)
Resource - rainbow writing
Resource - conversion
Resource - food chains
Resource - snakes and ladders
Resource - don’t blame me!

Subjunctive verb forms (pages 166-185)
Resource - identify the infinitive
Resource - subjunctive poem
Resource - subjunctive sentences
Resource - subjunctive speeches

Colons and semi-colons (pages 186-199)
Resource - spot the colons and semi-colons
Resource - combining clauses
Resource - using colons and semi-colons
Resource - semi-colon poetry