JOLLY GRAMMAR LEVEL 5

Description

The Jolly Grammar Level 5 course follows on from Jolly Grammar level 4 course. The following will be taught:

• Simple Sentences

• Continuous Sentences

• Compound subjects and objects

• Adverbs of Manner

• Adverbs of Degree & Place

• Adverbs of Time & Frequency

• How to distinguish between a phrase and a sentence.

• How to identify the subject and object of a sentence.

• How to organize sentences into paragraphs.

• How to form the continuous tenses.

• New parts of speech will be introduced namely:
  collective nouns, irregular plurals, possessive nouns and object pronouns.

• There will regular parsing practice with the aim of building dictionary skills, improving vocabulary and reinforcing grammar knowledge.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

This Jolly Grammar level 5 course will cover the following:

• Proofreading

• Adverb placement in sentences

• Proofreading

• Parenthesis

• Homophones

• Parts of Speech and Parsing

• Verb Tenses

• Present and Past Participles

• Contractions and the Verb 'To Have'

• Irregular Past Participles

• Identifying Verb Tenses

• Prepositions

• Prepositional Phrases

• Noun Phrases as Subjects and Objects

• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

• Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs

• Phrasal Verbs

• Making Nouns and Adjectives into Verbs

• The Order of Adjectives

• Writing Adjectives in the Correct Order

• Adverbs Describing other Adverbs

• Irregular Plurals

• Using a Colon and Bullet Points in a List

• Homographs and Homonyms

• Homographs and Heteronyms

Course Goals

• Reinforce and extend phonic knowledge.

• Teach spelling systematically.

• Expand vocabulary and improve comprehension.

• Introduce Nouns acting as Adjectives.

• Introduce morphemes, such as prefixes and suffixes.

• Enable the children to analyse and parse text.

• Introduce syntax and sentence structure.

• Develop the children’s use of punctuation.

• Develop the children’s dictionary and thesaurus skills.