Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of grammar and vocabulary

Understanding grammar is essential for your child to speak and write with competence and clarity. "Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar" gives your child bite-sized explanations of grammar and vocabulary, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the grammar skills that are challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This title features 170 activities (plus answer key) that increase in difficulty as your child proceeds through the book.

This book is appropriate for a 4th grade student working above his or her grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 5th or 6th grader.

Your student will learn how to: Recognize types of sentences Understand sentence structure Identify parts of speech Use punctuation and capitalization together Find her or his own grammar mistakes

Topics include: Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections, Punctuation and Capitalization, Usage and Proofreading

It was lockdown and Kirsten started to feed the birds that came into her garden every day. Little by little the birds began to trust her. Kirsten's favourites were the blackbirds. When Dad helps her set up a camera to watch the blackbirds' eggs hatch, Kirsten sees Sherbert the cat from number thirteen sneak up on the nest. Will Kirsten shoo the cat away in time? (Letter-sounds featured: /ur/ ir er ) Blackbird Girl is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

Can Marv and Maya help Patricia the musician on a fantasy mission to find four missing animals? In order to do so, they will need to do the special chair yoga poses - the eagle, lion, cobra and downward dog. Would you like to join in with the yoga poses, too? (Letter-sounds featured: /o/ (w)a /sh/ -ssi -ci -ti) The Musicians Mission is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022. Quickly get to grips with key reading skills including interpreting, analysing, commenting on and comparing texts. Build confidence with key definitions, examples, regular tests and 'Top tips' for improvement. Power up your skills and feel fully ready and equipped to excel in any test or assessment. For the first time, York Notes bring you a Revision and Exam Practice guide to help you improve your reading skills for the whole of your English Language and English Literature GCSE 9-1 courses. So whether you're studying at home, online or in the classroom, York Notes is your best bet for the best grades. Packed with more powerful features than any other study companion, our Reading Skills: Revision and Exam Practice guide is easy to use, brimming with essential info and will quickly become your go-to buddy as you navigate your GCSE course, build your confidence, stay motivated and get ready to impress in any test, assessment or exam.

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club Phonics programme matches the National Curriculum and Early Learning Goals and ensures children read from books with the sounds they know as they are learning to read. Ideal for home learning. A scout and a cowboy go fishing - they try to hook a trout, but decide that oysters are easier and sweeter to eat instead! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Green A Phonics phase: 5

There is a giant gift for Fay under the tree. What could it be? Fay wishes her mum was around to help her guess, but she is away until May for her job. Could it be a big clay monster? What about a big railway? What could be the greatest gift of all?

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club Phonics programme matches the National Curriculum and Early Learning Goals and ensures children read from books with the sounds they know as they are learning to read. Ideal for home learning. This book looks at trucks, trams, trains and buses - where they go, what they carry and how fast they go. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 4-5 (Reception) Book band: Red B Phonics phase: 3

Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

Each Reading Book in the Rapid Plus series is finely levelled and trialled with KS3 students, and includes: all-new content, rigorously levelled and trialled with Key Stage 3 students pre-reading pages which introduce the main characters, plots and key concepts, helping to build understanding and confidence a quiz page after each text providing opportunities for discussion and to check comprehension word and spelling activities to extend language knowledge a non-fiction section that helps to build vocabulary and offers a different reading experience.

Which exam? Edexcel GCSE (9-1) English Language First teaching: September 2015 First assessment: June 2017 A targeted way to build key skills for the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) English Language specification (assessment from 2017). Target workbooks' unique approach builds, develops and extends key exam skills. Step-by-step exercises get you ready for exams, with each book providing 70+ pages of structured practice. Full of ready-to-use examples and activities. Designed for those working towards the higher GCSE (9-1) grades, this workbook builds, challenges and develops your writing skills even further. See your progress easily, with step-by-step exercises and exam-style questions that focus on building key skills. Each workbook addresses a range of common misconceptions and problem areas, so you can build up your skills for the more challenging parts of language learning. Use the workbooks in class or at home - the exercises are easy to use independently. Part of the Target Edexcel GCSE (9-1) English Language series: Target Grade 3 English Language Reading Target Grade 3 English Language Writing Target Grade 5 English Language Reading Target Grade 5 English Language Writing Target Grade 9 English Language Reading Target Grade 9 English Language Writing Target workbooks make the perfect partner to the GCSE (9-1) Revise! Series.