GET UP TO SPEED WITH GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION IN THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM – a course for Primary Teaching Assistants
Date
Wed, 24th January, 2018Time
9:30 am - 3:30 pmLocation
St William’s Primary School, William’s Loke, NorwichRef. Number
PB/1718/En/182Price
£0.00Description
Get up to speed with the new grammar in the National Curriculum….this hands-on, accessible and practical course for teaching assistants, will make the main points of grammar clear and enable you to try out several hands-on activities to use with children.
0930
1. Word classes
· The ‘new’ word classes – their functions and examples in use
· Activities for consolidating word classes
1015
2. Phrases
· What is a phrase?
· Expanded noun phrases
· Fronted adverbials
1045 Coffee
1105
3. Sentence grammar explained
· What is a sentence?
· Helping children to see where sentences start and finish
· What is a clause?
· Putting together a co-ordinated sentence
· Putting together a subordinated sentence
· Punctuating a subordinated sentence
1200
4. Punctuation problems
· The curse of the all-purpose comma
· The agony of apostrophes
· The simplicity of the semi-colon
· The hard-to-call colon
· Easy lists and hard lists
1300 Lunch
1345
5. Standard English
· What is Standard English?
· Colloquial variations and how to respond to them
· Passive and active sentences and why they are useful
· Impersonal language
1445 Tea
1500
6. Awkward choices
· I or me?
· Who, which, what or that?
· Choosing the right preposition (e.g. compare with or compare to?)
1530 Finish
£160 for one place, £300 for 2
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Presenter(s)
Sue Hackman
Recently retired Chief Adviser on School Standards, Department for Education
Sue has been Chief Adviser on School Standards at the DfE for seven years and led the government’s work on pedagogy, deprivation, disadvantaged groups, the core subjects, assessment, accountability and school improvement.
Sue has worked at every level of the education system as a teacher, trainer, inspector and director of the last government’s National Strategies.
Sue is also well known for her classroom publications for spelling, grammar, reading, English literature, literary theory, writing and special needs. The TES describes Sue as a mix of “inspirational delivery combined with common sense practicality.