Trouble with Tenses? Bk 1

Name: Trouble with Tenses? Bk 1
Brand: Essential Resources
SKU: 5153
Price: 64.95 NZD
Availability: InStock
Author: Jenny Pyatt
ISBN: 9781877300424

A guide to tackling tenses and other English tangles for speakers of other languages

By
Jenny Pyatt

Untangle the mechanics of language. Trouble with Tenses? can extend the vocabulary and grammatical skills of students across a range of levels. This resource takes a carefully scaffolded approach to teaching and learning the essential basics of English grammar. It contains activities suitable for the classroom, homework and EAL students.

Categories: ELLs, English, Writing

Ages: 7-10 | Pages: 56 | Code: 5153 | ISBN: 9781877300424

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Jenny Pyatt

Jenny Pyatt has taught at all levels in primary schools in a variety of classroom and management positions.Now semi-retired, Jenny is teaching part-time in a rural school in Hawkes Bay and writes poetry for pleasure.

Contents
Introduction	5
1. Leading with letters, words and sentences	6
What is a letter?	6
What is a word?	6
What is a sentence?	7
2. Pinning down punctuation	10
When do you use a capital letter?	10
When do you use a full stop?	14
When do you use a question mark?	15
When do you use a comma?	16
When do you use an exclamation mark?	17
When do you use a colon?	18
When do you use an apostrophe?	18
3. Hurdling homonyms	20
What is a homonym?	20
4. Teasing out tenses	23
What are tenses?	23
Practise the past	24
Practise the future	25
Past, present or future?	26
What are they doing?	29
5. Sorting out singular and plural	30
Singular and plural – what are they?	30
Making plural words	30
Unusual plurals	33
6. Polishing up parts of speech	34
What is a verb?	34
What is a noun?	36
What is a pronoun?	38
What is an adjective?	39
What is a preposition?	42
Revision tests	44
Test 1: Capital letters and full stops	44
Test 2: More punctuation	46
Test 3: Homonyms and tenses	47
Test 4: Nouns and verbs	48
Test 5: More parts of speech	49
Assessment	50
Assessment kit – an overview	51
Identifying everyday objects	52
Spelling: high frequency written vocabulary	55
Mathematics	56