JOLLY GRAMMAR LEVEL 3

Build on foundational literacy skills with this engaging course, designed for students progressing after Jolly Phonics and Jolly Grammar Levels 1 & 2. This program focuses on developing a strong understanding of sentence structure, grammar, and vocabulary.

Key Skills Covered:

• Sentence Structure: Learn to distinguish between a phrase and a sentence, and identify the crucial subject and object within sentences. Master the art of organizing sentences into coherent paragraphs for clear communication.
• Verb Tenses: Develop proficiency in forming continuous tenses to express actions in progress.
• Expanding Vocabulary & Grammar: Introduce new parts of speech, including collective nouns, irregular plurals, possessive nouns, and object pronouns.
• Grammar & Vocabulary Reinforcement: Engage in regular parsing practice to build essential dictionary skills, expand vocabulary, and solidify grammar knowledge.
• Advanced Concepts: Explore long place names as nouns, nouns acting as adjectives, and the building blocks of words – morphemes like prefixes and suffixes.
• Text Analysis: Enable children to analyse and parse text, deepening their understanding of how language works.
• Syntax & Punctuation: Introduce syntax and sentence structure, and develop confident use of punctuation for clarity.
• Dictionary & Thesaurus Skills: Cultivate valuable dictionary and thesaurus skills for richer writing and comprehension.

Course Goals:

• Reinforce and extend phonic knowledge established in earlier stages.
• Teach spelling systematically.
• Expand vocabulary and improve comprehension.
• Introduce the concept of Nouns acting as Adjectives.
• Introduce morphemes (prefixes and suffixes).
• Enable children to analyse and parse text.
• Introduce syntax and sentence structure.
• Develop children’s use of punctuation.
• Develop children’s dictionary and thesaurus skills.

What You Will Learn:

• Long place names as Nouns.
• Collective Nouns.
• More irregular plurals, including nouns.
• Possessive pronouns.
• Subject and Object of a sentence.
• Subject Pronouns and Object Pronouns.
• Present Participle.
• Nouns acting as Adjectives.
• Turning Adjectives into Adverbs.
• Prepositions functioning as Adverbs.
• Refining the definition of a Sentence.
• Introducing a phrase.
• Distinguishing between a sentence and a phrase.
• Introduction to paragraphs to organize thoughts and text.

This course utilizes an active and multi-sensory teaching approach, incorporating colours and actions to make learning engaging and memorable for young learners.