This book provides a range of ideas for developing competence, understanding and knowledge of basic structures of English language for 5-11 year-olds. It emphasizes the key importance of language skills as the means of learning across the curriculum and offers starting points and activities for exploring letters, words, sentences and the creation of meaning. Chapters look at word building, sentence making, language forms, edition and revising, word oddities and word functions. The book is intended to be a flexible resource that will enable teachers to approach the teaching of grammar confidently and through natural and enjoyable contexts.