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Essential Grammar

The Resource Book Every Secondary English Teacher Will Need
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Essential Grammar offers secondary English teachers a clear and accessible guide to understanding and teaching grammar effectively. Authors Marcello Giovanelli and Jennifer Webb explore grammar beyond prescriptive rules, illustrating its importance in literary analysis and the development of academic and creative writing. The book provides practical strategies and numerous examples drawn from popular texts, making grammar teaching more confident and rigorous in the classroom.
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This book is an invaluable resource for trainee and practising secondary English teachers seeking to deepen their understanding of grammar and enhance their teaching practice.

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Essential Grammar will provide clarity and teacher expertise to the area of English curriculum. By exploring grammar as applied to literary analysis, this highly accessible book provides an extensive overview of how to use grammar to enhance the teaching of academic and creative writing.

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What is grammar? Why is it so central to the teaching of English? How can we teach it with confidence in secondary schools?

Essential Grammar will provide clarity, meaning and teacher expertise to this much-debated area of the English curriculum. By exploring grammar as applied to literary analysis and using a range of examples from commonly-taught and popular texts, this highly accessible book provides an extensive overview of how to use grammar to enhance the teaching of academic and creative writing. Drawing on a range of resources, best-selling authors Webb and Giovanelli:

  • Discuss the context of grammar teaching in schools
  • Provide a clear overview of concepts and terminology for the teacher
  • Offer a wide range of examples of how grammar can be applied to the analysis of texts and the development of studentsโ€™ writing
  • Debunk the unhelpful view of grammar as a list of prescriptive rules and limits
  • Outline grammatical concepts in a way which is clear and simple to understand
  • Provide a huge range of practical ways to ensure that teaching of grammatical concepts can be rigorous and successful for all.

This resource, with its grounded and straightforward approach to grammar, will be immediately usable in the classroom with strategies that can be used by teachers in their classroom today. For any training and practising secondary English teachers, Essential Grammar will be a compulsory classroom companion.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032007137

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 20 Tables, black and white; 126 Line drawings, color; 126 Illustrations, color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 495g

Pages: 232

About the Author

Jennifer Webb is an English teacher, school leader, educational author and speaker. She tweets as @funkypedagogy and runs the popular blog www.funkypedagogy.com

Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Aston University. He has previously authored Teaching Grammar, Structure and Meaning (2014), Knowing About Language (2016) and Teaching English Language and Literature 16-19 (2021), all for Routledge.

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