Grammar Book

Zoë Paramour worked her way up from NQT to assistant headteacher in five years and is currently Head of English at a school in North London. She has written about education for a number of national publications, including the Independent, the Huffington Post and the New Statesman. She is also the founder of the award-winning blog The Girl on the Piccadilly Line and her first book, How to be an Outstanding Primary Middle Leader, was published by Bloomsbury Education in 2018. She tweets @zoeparamour. Timothy Paramour is Director of Studies at a school in Redbridge. He has worked in various primary schools in and around London during his 16 years of teaching. In 2017, he wrote and performed a play about primary education that was staged in theatres in and around London, including the Lyric Hammersmith and the Oxford Playhouse. He blogs about education at www.timparamour.com and has written for a number of national publications, including the Independent and the TES. He tweets @timparamour.

Where was this book when I changed year groups? The Paramours have written a superb book, complete with examples, explanations and activities to cover grammar for both Key Stage 1 and 2. It has helpful justifications on certain rules and handily highlights the grey areas of grammar (which that one child in your class will always point out). Certain sections refamiliarised me with the areas I teach, while others gave me ideas for tasks I can do to teach this essential, yet often stealth, aspect of our reading and writing.