Provides teachers and trainee teachers with a guide to teaching grammar and punctuation in Australian schools within the new national teaching standards and, the new curriculum.

This Handbook provides:

• a guide to teaching English grammar, punctuation and vocabulary 
• year-level content based on the Content Descriptions and Achievement Standards of the Australian Curriculum: English (Foundation Year to Year 10)
• information that assists teachers and student teachers to implement all aspects of English as a subject and to teach and assess English literacy as general capability
• step-by-step lesson plans for teaching grammar concepts, metalanguage and uses of English
• content frameworks to help curriculum coordinators plan English for the whole school English program and general capabilities in literacy 
• effective procedures for assessing student writing and spelling
• a procedure for professional self-assessment in terms of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.