Warriner's Handbook: Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, Sentences - Introductory Course, Teacher's Edition (Grade 6) (2008)

Warriner’s goal in preparing this handbook was to create “a completely flexible teaching tool adaptable to . . . any individual classroom.” He did not design his books to be teaching texts in which the class moves sequentially from chapter to chapter, every student doing all the exercises along the way. In fact, he asserted just the opposite: “[A] book of this kind is not intended for methodical coverage from cover to cover. The book contains more material than any one class can handle in a single year. Teachers will teach those chapters that a particular class needs and will assign exercises in proportion to the need.”

CONTENTS

John Warriner: In His Own Words
To Our Students
Teaching Strands: Connecting Grammar and Writing
Essays on Teaching Grammar
Overview of the Holt Handbook
Instructional Resources: Chapter by Chapter

Part 1: Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
1 The Sentence
2 Parts of Speech Overview: Noun, Pronoun, Adjective
3 Parts of Speech Overview: Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection
4 The Phrase and the Clause
5 Complements
6 Agreement
7 Using Verbs Correctly
8 Using Pronouns Correctly
9 Using Modifiers Correctly
10 A Glossary of Usage
11 Capital Letters
12 Punctuation: End Marks, Commas, Semicolons, Colons
13 Punctuation: Underlining (Italics), Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Hyphens
14 Spelling
15 Correcting Common Errors

Part 2: Sentences
16 Writing Effective Sentences
17 Sentence Diagramming

Part 3: Resources
- The History of English
- Test Smarts
- Grammar at a Glance

Index