Description
Book SynopsisHelp your child be the top of the class with the best-selling home-study series from Carol Vorderman.
Carol Vorderman can help your child succeed in English with this homeschool learning resource for 10-11 year olds. English Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman''s series of DK workbooks packed with notes and tips to make home learning about English easy and fun! Follow the exercises and activities with your child at home to strengthen their learning in school. Each title contains a progress chart so your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed and colour in the topic stars as they go. Helpful parents'' notes explain what children need to know at each stage and what''s being covered in the curriculum so you can support and homeschool your child with confidence.
This book will help your child practise using punctuation, such as colons and semi-colons, comparing poems and text, and understanding the difference between active and passive
Table of Contents
- 1: Riddles
- 2: Opposites
- 3: Spoonerisms
- 4: Malapropisms
- 5: More malapropisms
- 6: Words that confuse
- 7: Inventing words
- 8: Information text
- 9: Dictionary work
- 10: Sentence-building
- 11: Different types of writing
- 12: Comparing poems
- 13: Investigating poems
- 14: Fast fact-finding
- 15: Following instructions
- 16: Reporting
- 17: Paragraphs and punctuation
- 18: Old text
- 19: New text
- 20: Comparing texts
- 21: Reported speech
- 22: Character development
- 23: Introducing characters
- 24: A questionnaire
- 25: Prefixes
- 26: Suffixes
- 27: Joining sentences
- 28: Active and passive
- 29: Colons, semicolons and dashes
- 30: Word search
