JOLLY GRAMMAR LEVEL 6

Description

The Jolly Grammar Level 6 course follows on from Jolly Grammar level 5 course. The following will be taught:

• Alliterations,

• Paragraph structure and cohesion.

• Gerunds,

• Relative pronouns,

• Relative and modal adverbs,

• Modal and linking verbs

• 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 6 course will cover the following:

• Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

• Adverbials.

• Prepositional phrases can act as adjectives.

• Past participle and relatives can act as adjectives.

• Clauses can act as adjectives.

• The active voice.

• The passive voice.

• How a sentence with a direct object sometimes has an indirect object.

• Complex sentence with a subordinate clause.

• How to form imperatives,

• Semicolons.

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.