David Waugh is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the the School of Education, University of Durham where he is also the subject leader for primary English. Kate Allott is Senior Lecturer in Education at York St John University. Kate worked as a literacy consultant in a local authority from the inception of the National Literacy Strategy. More recently she spent two years as a regional adviser with the Primary National Strategy, working on the Communication, Language and Literacy Development initiative. Rosemary Waugh is a linguist and classics teacher at Queen Margaret's School, York. She collects children's literature and has lectured on the subject for the University of Hull, and contributes to conferences and publications on children's literature.
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1. WHAT IS GRAMMAR? 2. STANDARD ENGLISH 3. DIALECT AND ACCENT 4. FORMAL AND INFORMAL LANGUAGE 5. PREFIXES 6. SUFFIXES 7. COMPOUND WORDS 8. PLURALS 9. WORD CLASSES 10. NOUNS 11. VERBS 12. ADJECTIVES 13. ADVERBS 14. PRONOUNS 15. PREPOSITIONS 16. DETERMINERS/ARTICLES 17. CONJUNCTIONS 18. SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS 19. SPELLING 20. HOW TO LEARN A SPELLING 21. PHONICS AND SPELLING 22. HOMOPHONES, HOMOGRAPHS AND HOMONYMS 23. PHRASES AND CLAUSES 24. SENTENCES 25. PARAGRAPHS 26. PUNCTUATION 27. APOSTROPHES 28. BRINGING WRITING TOGETHER: COHESION AND AMBIGUITY 29. THE SPAG TEST