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Warm-up Games for Grammar Years 3-4

Catalysts for effective and purposeful grammar learning

At last, a series that shows you how to teach grammar to children in an engaging way so that it will stay in their memories forever! Recognising grammar is often invisible as well as complex, Warm-up Games for Grammar brings it out into the open so that children can see it, play with it and understand how and why we need to learn about it. Each book draws on successful techniques from drama, movement and sports games to offer exciting and creative ideas for making grammar learning easy, fun and purposeful.

Ages: 7-9 | Pages: 56 | Code: 5918 | ISBN: 9781776551897

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Frances Adlam

Frances Adlam, a highly experienced and creative educator and therapist, has 20 years of teaching experience, is considered a “gifted teacher” by many, and for over 15 years has been involved in teaching the arts, creativity, multiple intelligences and working with creatively gifted children. She has lectured in New Zealand and been an adviser for teachers in the aforementioned areas. She is also a published children’s author, a dancer and a playwright. She currently works as an educator and therapist for children in her private practice, Out of the Box, where she specialises in working with children who are on the spectra of dyslexia, ADHD, Asperger’s syndrome and autism. Frances has written many resources for Essential Resources, some of which are under her former name, Frances Reed. You can find out more about Frances at www.outofthebox.net.nz.

Contents

Introduction4
Warm up with sentences5
Sam's sentences make sense5
All about ...6
The sentence train7
All in order8
Make your own sensible sentences9
Warm up with nouns10
We're going on a noun hunt – teacher notes10
What goes into the noun basket?11
Draw a noun picture12
Noun mix-up – teacher notes13
Shape your nouns14
Warm up with verbs15
What goes into the verb box?15
Just the place for a verb – teacher notes16
The verb dance – teacher notes16
Verb map activities17
Moving verb bingo19
Exciting verb activities23
Present or past – teacher notes27
Odd verb out28
Warm up with adjectives29
A unique description29
All kinds of hair30
Tell us about ... activities31
Be adventurous with adjectives33
Adjectives for appearance34
Shape a character35
Create a character36
All shapes and sizes activities37
Warm up with adverbs39
Verb plus ... – teacher notes39
Be awesome with adverbs40
Warm up with prepositions41
Get in position – teacher notes41
Design a preposition – teacher notes42
Warm up with interjections43
Hooray, a play! – teacher notes43
Warm up with homophones and homonyms44
Homophones: What can I hear? – teacher notes44
Homonyms: What are the meanings? – teacher notes45
Draw my different meanings46
Additional resources47
Useful lists of nouns47
Useful lists of verbs49
A useful list of adjectives for characters51
A useful list of exciting adverbs for stories53
A useful list of homophones54
A useful list of homonyms55