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 perfect their spelling, grammar, and punctuation with this homeschool learning resource for 8-9 year olds. Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman''s series of DK workbooks packed with notes and tips to make home learning 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 learn how to use punctuation, irregular verbs, similes, and direct speech correctly. Developed in consulta
Table of Contents
- 1: Adjectives
- 2: Using prefixes
- 3: Suffixes
- 4: The suffixes “sion” and “tion”
- 5: Word families
- 6: Bigger word families
- 7: Pronouns
- 8: Abstract nouns
- 9: Saying it right!
- 10: Textspeak
- 11: Capital letters in titles
- 12: Irregular verbs
- 13: Using “a” or “an”
- 14: More “a” or “an”
- 15: Connectives
- 16: Punctuation marks
- 17: Apostrophe to show possession
- 18: Comma sense
- 19: Direct speech
- 20: More direct speech
- 21: “There”, “their” or “they’re”?
- 22: “Off” or “of”?
- 23: “Too” or “to”?
- 24: Making plurals
- 25: Similes
- 26: Writing interesting sentences
- 27: Stories and paragraphs
- 28: Spelling practice
- 29: Answer section with parents’ notes and glossary
