Basic skills in the English curriculum. Why teach spelling and punctuation? Why teach grammar? Problems in learning to spell. Teaching punctiation. Place of grammar. Practical matters. Ways of improving spelling. Individual spelling programme. Personal spelling book. Marking spelling errors. Strategies for learning spelling. Children with special spelling problems. Memory aids for spelling. Proof-reading. Spelling workcards and worksheets. Class instruction in spelling. Spelling rules. Teaching word-building. Teaching homophones and similar pairs. Teacher-initiated spellings. Spelling games. Word activities. Creative spelling. Spelling and language study. Teaching punctuation. Punctuation and speech, reading. Teaching specific punctuation marks. Creative punctuation. Grammar in the classroom. Teaching correct English. Using grammatical terms: literature teaching, pupils' writing, improving sentence structure, teaching cohesion. Exploring the grammar of the mother tongue. Language study in schools. Language varieties. Language functions. Meaning of meaning. Language and society. Phonology of English. History of the language. Language and languages.