Video: Summary for Developing English

Dr Rod Campbell, a leading literacy educator and grammar consultant shares his strategies on developing English for primary school students. Using his signature coloured sentences on white board technique, he maps out how teachers can approach teaching the structure of writing and developing English accompanied by many examples.

Key Messages

• ANVA - noun and verb groups 
• Increasing complexity of noun groups and use of relative/adjectival clause 
• Increasing complexity of verb groups and use of adverbials 
• Teaching dependent clauses (subordinate), sentence variety, cohesion, theme, paragraph use and conventions  (punctuation, ‘usage’, spelling)