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Grammar for Writing? An investigation into the effect of Contextualised Grammar Teaching on Student Writing
Jones, S.M.,  Myhill, D.A. and Bailey, T.C.  (2013), Reading and Writing   26 (8) 1241-1263

Re-Thinking Grammar: the Impact of Embedded Grammar Teaching on Students’ Writing and Students’ Metalinguistic Understanding
Myhill, D.A., Jones, S.M., Lines, H. and Watson A.  (2012), Research Papers in Education  27 (2) 139-166 
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Making Meaning with Grammar: A repertoire of possibilities
Debra Myhill, Helen Lines and Annabel Watson (2012), mETAphor  2: 1-10
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Playful Explicitness with Grammar:  A Pedagogy for Writing
Jones, S. M., Myhill, D.A., Watson, A and Lines, H.E. (2013), Literacy  47 (2) 103-111

Grammar Matters: How Teachers’ Grammatical Subject Knowledge Impacts on the Teaching of Writing
Myhill, D.A.,  Jones, S.M. and Watson, A. (2013), Teaching and Teacher Education  36:77-91  

‘Knowledge About Language’ Revisited: The Impact of Teachers’ Linguistic Subject Knowledge on the Teaching of Writing
Debra Myhill, Susan Jones, Helen Lines and Annabel Watson, A. (2012), EnglishDramaMedia, 23: 43-48
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Navigating ‘the pit of doom’: Affective responses to teaching ‘grammar’
Watson, A. (2012), English in Education 46 (1) 22- 37

Grammar at GCSE technical report - Edexcel Annabel Watson and Ruth Newman

Essential Primary Grammar

Myhill, D.A  Jones, S  Lines, H and Watson, A (2016)

No Nonsense Grammar: Babcock LDP Literacy Team,  Raintree (2016)

Grammar for Writing - UK Government Web Archive

Englicious Developed by a team from University College London (UCL), this website aims to be a complete online resource for teaching English grammar at Key Stages 1-5 in UK schools. As well as grammar subject knowledge, it has lesson plans and activities which can be accessed through a simple registration process.

Grammar check  This website is particularly useful for second language or EAL writers to self-check whether they have made any errors