
Dr. Tina Udoji introduces the Jolly Grammar Level five course, revising prior skills and expanding a seven-year literacy program with topics like simple and continuous sentences, verb tenses, and homophones.
Sharpen proofreading skills by identifying and correcting spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and sentence structure errors. Follow a slow, step-by-step editing strategy and read aloud to catch mistakes more easily.
Study irregular plurals, especially nouns ending in -us, where Latin-origin words like alumnus form alumni, while hippopotamus may be hippopotami or hippopotamuses.
Explore phrasal verbs, a verb plus an adverb or preposition with meanings that differ from the parts. See examples like break down, break out, and look after.
Explore adverbs of manner that describe how actions happen, using examples like quickly, slowly, well, happily, and sadly, and learn their placement after verbs or objects to avoid misplacements.
Learn how adverbs of degree express intensity and appear before the adjective, adverb, or verb they modify. Explore examples like very, extremely, quite, enough, and almost.
Explore adverbs of frequency in English, including always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, and never, with frequency percentages and example sentences to illustrate usage.
Explore adverbs of time and how they describe when an action happens, with examples like today, yesterday, in the afternoon, last night, last week, last year, and two months ago.
Master adverbs of place, signaling location, distance, and movement. Learn how they're used after verbs and with examples like up, down, north, east, nearby, far away, and in front.
Explore the order of adjectives, including seven categories: determiners, opinion, size and shape, condition and age, colour and pattern, origin, and material, and note the example the old square box.
Description
The Jolly Grammar Level 5 course follows on from Jolly Grammar level 4 course. The following will be taught:
Simple Sentences
Continuous Sentences
Compound subjects and objects
Adverbs of Manner
Adverbs of Degree & Place
Adverbs of Time & Frequency
How to distinguish between a phrase and a sentence.
How to identify the subject and object of a sentence.
How to organize sentences into paragraphs.
How to form the continuous tenses.
New parts of speech will be introduced namely:
collective nouns, irregular plurals, possessive nouns and object pronouns.
There will regular parsing practice with the aim of building dictionary skills, improving vocabulary and reinforcing grammar knowledge.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
This Jolly Grammar level 5 course will cover the following:
Proofreading
Adverb placement in sentences
Proofreading
Parenthesis
Homophones
Parts of Speech and Parsing
Verb Tenses
Present and Past Participles
Contractions and the Verb 'To Have'
Irregular Past Participles
Identifying Verb Tenses
Prepositions
Prepositional Phrases
Noun Phrases as Subjects and Objects
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs
Phrasal Verbs
Making Nouns and Adjectives into Verbs
The Order of Adjectives
Writing Adjectives in the Correct Order
Adverbs Describing other Adverbs
Irregular Plurals
Using a Colon and Bullet Points in a List
Homographs and Homonyms
Homographs and Heteronyms
NEW! June 2026 Update
Detailed Course Breakdown
As you can see, this course is updated frequently with new lessons, projects and resources!
Levels Five
NEW! Lesson 1: Verb Tense Precision
NEW! Lesson 2: Advance Verb Use
NEW! Lesson 3: Proofreading Practice
NEW! Lesson 4: Sentence Construction
NEW! Lesson 5: Parsing Practice
NEW! Lesson 6: Homograms and Heteronyms
Course Goals
Reinforce and extend phonic knowledge.
Teach spelling systematically.
Expand vocabulary and improve comprehension.
Introduce Nouns acting as Adjectives.
Introduce morphemes, such as prefixes and suffixes.
Enable the children to analyse and parse text.
Introduce syntax and sentence structure.
Develop the children’s use of punctuation.
Develop the children’s dictionary and thesaurus skills.