ABSTRACT
In 2014, the new primary national curriculum was introduced. Its statutory assessment and its more challenging grammar, punctuation and spelling content have raised the stakes in terms of what teachers need to know about grammar and punctuation. The grammatical content that must be taught is set out in the national curriculum programmes of study and its statutory appendices. This book deals with that content, as well as one or two other aspects that are not statutory (such as non-finite clauses) because they are interesting in their own right and may well help pupils to become better writers if they know how to deploy them effectively. It aims to support primary teachers' subject knowledge in an easy-to-use way. Knowledge about grammar and punctuation, engagingly and effectively taught, can give young writers the tools they need to make conscious choices about their writing, so that they can be both creative and in control.
