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 at spelling with this homeschool learning resource for 8-9 year olds. Spelling Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman''s series of DK workbooks packed with notes and tips to make home learning about spelling 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 to learn spelling for Key Stage 2. Spelling practice covers homophones, root words, prefixes, and making plurals. Developed in consultation with
Table of Contents
- 1: Alphabetical order
- 2: Root words
- 3: Real words
- 4: Homophones
- 5: Common homophones
- 6: Rhyming words
- 7: Verb endings
- 8: Rules about verb endings
- 9: More rules about verb endings
- 10: Roots and verbs
- 11: Irregular verbs
- 12: Making verbs
- 13: The prefix “al”
- 14: Adding prefixes
- 15: Word bluff
- 16: The “ight” and “tion” endings
- 17: Root roads
- 18: Suffix maze
- 19: Similar suffixes
- 20: Making plurals
- 21: Double consonants
- 22: String and sounds
- 23: It’s and its
- 24: Compound words
- 25: Bag of compounds
- 26: Ancient words
- 27: Root meanings
- 28: Spelling practice
- 29: Answer section with parent’s notes and glossary
