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February 2015

The briefest English grammar and punctuation guide ever! by Ruth Colman. Kensington, NSW: UNSW Press, 2011. 428.2 COL

“Covering the basics of English grammar and punctuation, this friendly guide … clearly and simply explains how language works and functions, and then

turns to punctuation, stripping out all the jargon to make it easy to understand.” – Back cover.

Conversations about text 1: teaching grammar using literary texts by Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton. Newtown, NSW: Primary English Teaching Association Australia, 2010. 428.2 ROS

“This book focuses on teaching grammar in the context of literary texts

in the primary school and middle years.” – Publisher website.

Conversations about text 2: teaching grammar using factual texts by Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton. Newtown, NSW: Primary English Teaching Association Australia, 2010. 428.2 ROS

“Focussing on the use of factual texts when teaching grammar, this is a

companion volume to [Conversations about text 1] … Strategies, programs and units of work are shared by outstanding classroom practitioners.” – Publisher website.

Grammar and meaning by Sally Humphrey, Louise Droga, Susan Feez. Newtown, NSW: Primary English Teaching Association Australia, 2012. 372.61 HUM

This book, for years 4-9 “aims to help teachers build their knowledge of the grammatical resources of the English

language system and apply that language to their teaching practice.” – Back cover.

A new grammar companion for teachers by Beverly Derewianka. 2

nd ed.

Marrickville, NSW: Primary English Teaching Association Australia, 2011. 415 DER

This updated edition is “written in response to the new Australian Curriculum: English. It is organised

around the main functions that language plays in our lives - interacting with others, structuring coherent texts, and expressing and connecting ideas. The publication makes links to specific Content Descriptors and Outcomes and extends, for the first time, into secondary schooling.” – Publisher website.

Teaching English grammar: a handbook for Australian teachers by Rod Campbell & Graham Ryles. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Australia, 2014. 428.5 CAM

This handbook provides: “year-level content based on the Content Descriptions and Achievement

Standards of the Australian curriculum: English …; step-by-step lesson plans for teaching grammar concepts, metalanguage and uses of English.” – Back cover.

Working grammar: an introduction for secondary English teachers by Sally Humphrey, Kristina Love & Louise Droga. Melbourne: Pearson Australia, 2011. 428.2 HUM

“Working grammar provides an introduction to or refresher on grammar, particularly the kind of grammar used to explore and create

the texts of secondary English in the twenty-first century, and the kind of grammar that underpins the Australian Curriculum for English.” – p. v.