Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Section 1. Grammar for Life Introduction The Universals 1. Nouns 2. Determiners 3. Pronouns 4. Verbs 5. Agreement 6. Tense Parts of speech progress check 7. Adjectives 8. Adverbs Parts of speech progress check 2 9. Prepositions 10. Conjunctions Parts of speech final progress check 11. Phrases 12. Clauses Section 2. Dictionaries 13. How to start using a dictionary Section 3 Morphology for Life 14. Prefixes 15. Suffixes 16. Root words Section 4. Punctuation for Life 17. Punctuation activities Section 5. Information for teachers 18. Language and literacy 19. Language impairment 20. Language change 21. Language myths 22. Redundancy 23. Figurative language 24. The -ize have it (or, is it because -ise Scottish?) Section 6. Resources for everyone Appendix 1. Word cards Appendix 2. Latin and Greek morphemes Appendix 3. Mnemonics Glossary Bibliography

About the Author

Lyn Stone is a linguist and literacy and language specialist. She is the clinical director of Lifelong Literacy and is currently based in Victoria, Australia.