Explore a range of practical classroom ideas to help pupils understand how to use grammar accurately and appropriately.
There are four main areas to consider. The first relates to what you might wish to cover in your teaching of grammar. The second suggests some general strategies and teaching approaches to address wider issues of grammar. The third proposes some practical ideas for helping pupils learn about grammar at word and sentence level. The fourth revisits aspects related to appropriateness, and differences between speech and writing, as well as some wider issues related to usage.
Recognising progression
Pupils demonstrate increasing awareness of key grammatical principles and their effects, and show how this influences the range of choices open to them when they write. They are able to explore and discuss these choices, effects and influences, using appropriate metalanguage. A more complete picture of progression is provided by the substrand from the Framework.
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Year 7
Understand and use appropriately in their own writing the conventions of sentence grammar.
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Year 8
Draw on their knowledge of grammatical conventions to write grammatically accurate texts that are appropriate to the task, audience and purpose.
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Year 9
Understand the ways in which writers modify and adapt phrase and sentence structures and conventions to create effects, and how to make such adaptations when appropriate in their own writing.
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Year 10
Write complex, ambitious texts, maintaining accuracy and deploying a range of grammatical conventions appropriately, making conscious and purposeful adaptations to grammar for specific effect.
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Year 11
Create and shape language ambitiously in their writing, maintaining accuracy, consciously drawing, if appropriate for audience and purpose, on some of the ways that grammar varies and is influenced by different contexts and cultures.
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Extension
Exploit a wide repertoire of grammatical constructions and conventions drawn from a range of influences, contexts and cultures, in order to write rich, original and ambitious texts while maintaining accuracy and achieving a planned impact.
Background
At Key Stage 2 pupils are taught the conventions of standard English grammar and how to vary and adapt sentence structure for meaning and effect. This substrand further develops pupils' understanding of the conventions of sentence grammar, and thus their ability to write with technical accuracy and to create increasingly ambitious effects.
Using grammar: What aspects could be taught – Section A
Find details about some aspects of grammar, relating to word classes and sentence types, that you might wish to teach. This focuses on Framework for English substrand 9.2: 'Using grammar accurately and appropriately', and is part of Teaching for progression: Writing.
Using grammar: what aspects could be taught – Section B
Find details about aspects you might wish to teach relating to the regional, cultural and time variations that influence language and grammar. This focuses on the Framework for English substrand 9.2: 'Using grammar accurately and appropriately', and is part of Teaching for progression: Writing.
Some general strategies for teaching grammar through writing
Find a set of specific practical classroom ideas to help pupils understand how to use grammar accurately and appropriately. This focuses on the Framework for English substrand 9.2: 'Using grammar accurately and appropriately’, and is part of Teaching for progression: Writing.
Teaching grammar at word and sentence level
Find a set of teaching approaches to help pupils understand how to use grammar accurately and appropriately at the level of the individual word, the phrase, and the sentence. This focuses on the Framework for English substrand 9.2: 'Using grammar accurately and appropriately’, and is part of Teaching for progression: Writing.
Teaching pupils about accurate and appropriate use of grammar
Find a set of teaching approaches to help pupils to adapt grammar to a range of audiences and purposes, and to recognise the appropriate contexts for standard and non-Standard English. This focuses on the Framework for English substrand 9.2: 'Using grammar accurately and appropriately’, and is part of Teaching for progression: Writing.
Using grammar for a range of forms, audiences and purposes
Find a set of teaching approaches that allow pupils to explore a range of genres and types of texts and notice their different grammatical forms and features. This focuses on the Framework for English substrand 9.2: 'Using grammar accurately and appropriately’, and is part of Teaching for progression: Writing.
Understanding standard English and other varieties
Find a set of teaching approaches that are designed to develop pupils' interest in and knowledge of language varieties and how these vary according to factors such as region, culture, time and usage. This focuses on the Framework for English substrand 9.2: 'Using grammar accurately and appropriately’, and is part of Teaching for progression: Writing.
Exploring style and tone in a range of texts
Find a set of teaching approaches to help pupils understand how to use grammar accurately and appropriately at the level of the individual word, the phrase, and the sentence. This focuses on the Framework for English substrand 9.2: 'Using grammar accurately and appropriately’, and is part of Teaching for progression: Writing.
Learning about structuring sentences
Find a set of teaching approaches to help pupils learn more about sentence structure and the variations that can have significant impact on the reader. This focuses on the Framework for English substrand 9.2: 'Using grammar accurately and appropriately’, and is part of Teaching for progression: Writing.
