Teaching Poetry: Writing and Reading for Primary Schools.
Teaching poetry is a fun and mandatory subject in primary schools. Poetry is an essential skill in life which helps students to express themselves freely.
Alliterations: Definition, Examples and Activities for Primary Schools.
Alliteration for primary schools! Here you can find examples, definitions and activities for your classroom.
Comparatives and Superlatives for Primary School Teachers
Comparatives and superlatives are a great place to introduce more advanced grammatical terms (after nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs & adjectives). It is a discrete area of grammar and one that once the logic has been understood, has no exceptions.
Possessive Pronouns for Primary Schools Teachers
Possessive Pronouns are yet another category of word that primary schools have to learn under the UK national curriculum. Our blog gives teachers all the information they need to teach this subject.
Noun Phrases Expanded – Everything a Teacher (or Parent) Needs to Know
Noun Phrases Expanded appear in Year 2 and Year 4 of the National curriculum and are a great way of improving writing.
Relative Pronouns – A Detailed Guide for Teachers
Relative Pronouns appear in the Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum in the UK. This is a detailed guide to what they are and how to use them.
A Comprehensive Guide to Antonyms for Teachers with over 200 Examples.
We’re going to deal with antonyms in this blog including what they are, what they do, what you need to teach, a lot of examples and some worksheets for your class. Table of Contents Antonyms – What are they? The English language is complex. With a history of adding words and phrases from all over […]
How to Teach Prepositions and Some Class Activities
Prepositions are words governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause. But to make your pupils understand the idea, explain to them that prepositions are words which link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence.
Apostrophes for Primary School Teachers
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark that is often misused.
It is one of the common grammatical mistakes that irritates people on Facebook and Twitter, and that parents love to highlight if a teacher gets wrong!
Determiners for Teachers, Parents and Learners
Table of Contents Determiners: What are they? Determiners are scattered across almost every sentence and many of us are blissfully unaware of it. Determiners are words placed in front of a noun or noun phrase to make it clear which object is being referred to. They are said to “mark” nouns or noun phrases (a […]
