The skills and requirements for the GCSE English language exam are very specific: retrieving information from texts, inference, analysis of language, presentational techniques and comparing texts are some of the skills needed. For writing, students are required to engage the reader and produce a response, which relates to the purpose and audience. It emphasises the P.E.E or P.E.T.E.R technique, so students have a blue print (format) to work from; make POINT, give EVIDENCE, comment on TECHNIQUE, EFFECT and RESPONSE. This helps students to develop analytical skills for non-fiction tasks and responses in English literature papers. The students are also taught to use rhetorical techniques - groups of three, speaking directly to the reader, rhetorical questions, inclusive pronouns as well as stylistic devices like similes, metaphors and high level vocabulary.

Practice reading comprehension with this activity sticker book, perfect for learning at home! Let's Do Comprehension 8-9 supports the National Curriculum for Key Stage 2 and is ideal for boosting English literacy skills at home. The workbook contains a variety of stimulating fiction and non-fiction texts, accompanied by comprehension questions of varying difficulty and over 100 colourful stickers to encourage and reward children. This comprehension practice book includes: - Tips and clues from Alice the Alligator to support children - Extra challenges in Brodie's Brain Boosters to stretch and challenge - Answers at the back of the book - Exciting, colourful illustrations and stickers For more in the popular Let's Do series by Andrew Brodie, see: Let's Do Handwriting, Let's Do Spelling, Let's Do Punctuation, Let's Do Grammar, Let's Do Times Tables, Let's Do Mental Maths, Let's Do Addition and Subtraction and Let's Do Arithmetic

Ideal for learning at home, Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 10-11 encourages children to supercharge their skills and become Grand Masters of vocabulary! Created by Andrew Jennings (@VocabularyNinja), the bestselling author of Write Like a Ninja, this fun activity book is perfect for targeted practice at home, building children's confidence and further developing those all-important literacy skills taught in the classroom. With clear activities and lots of colourful illustrations, it can be used as a fun way to get to grips with reading, writing and spelling. Key features of the Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 10-11: - Features a variety of fun activities with full-colour illustrations, including code-breaking games, creative writing and synonym-matching - Helps children practise different vocabulary areas linked to the Key Stage 2 (KS2) curriculum, such as descriptive words, subject-specific terms and synonyms for overused words - Boosts children's confidence and develops essential vocabulary knowledge - Includes advice for parents on home learning, answers to the questions, and a downloadable certificate

This book will take you into the classrooms of great literacy teachers from around the United States who have designed successful vocabulary instruction for their grades K-6 classrooms. Each teacher will share vocabulary routines that he or she uses on a regular basis, including his or her favorite, which you can use as-is or adapt for your own classroom. Through their stories you will be encouraged to examine your vocabulary instruction and consider what you can do to help students who have vocabulary gaps and further enrich the vocabulary of those students who don't.

Featuring a cute character, Horace, this series enables the reader to travel back in time using Horace's latest technology, the i-collar. In this series, Horace visits Ancient Rome; exploring a Roman Villa, a Roman Town and the Roman Army. The stories are brimming over with fascinating facts about life in Roman times and also include Horace's opinions as he sees life through a cat's eyes. A series guaranteed to stretch the imagination; they will also challenge fluent readers with new vocabulary and give him or her practice in exercises featuring grammar, punctuation, spelling and basic comprehension. The text is illustrated throughout with bold, dynamic, cartoon style illustrations that will capture the child's imagination.

Treasure House Comprehension Skills Pupil Books are aimed at ages 5-11. They cover all the text types specified in the 2014 National Curriculum, with follow-up activities that build the skills necessary to develop critical thinking. Treasure House Comprehension Skills Pupil Book 3: - has 20 units - covers a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction genres - builds enjoyment of comprehension skills on a range of top-quality texts - contains carefully tailored questions that cover all the statutory requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum - helps pupils to become accomplished critical thinkers - provides regular progress checks with 3 review units. This pupil book can be used with Treasure House Comprehension Skills Teacher's Guide 3 and activities on Collins Connect for a complete programme to enhance comprehension skills.

Brimming with practice, CGP's superb Writing Targeted Question Book for Year 6 is the perfect way to boost pupils' writing skills. It's packed with activities, advice and extracts covering fiction and non-fiction genres. What's more, it all supports the 'composition' elements of the National Curriculum. Answers and hints are included, alongside a range of free online texts with annotations (downloadable from the CGP website) to use for inspiration.

These Fix-it Phonics Workbooks are full of engaging activities. With lots of reading and writing, stickers and colouring, children consolidate knowledge of spelling patterns introduced in Level 3. The Letterland friends provide children with the skills they need to blend sounds and read and write words. There are also review and listening activities, giving every child a sense of accomplishment and progress.

A bright and colourful Reading Activity Book brimming with charming characters, engaging activities and crystal-clear explanations. Perfect for learning at home or in class, it's loaded with useful Reading practice for ages 4-5 (Reception). Each topic is explained in easy-to-understand language, followed by fun-packed activities and challenges designed to boost your child's confidence and make sure all that knowledge really sticks! We've also thrown in exciting puzzles so your child can apply their Reading skills in a different context. Self-assessment boxes at the end of each topic can be used to keep track of their progress.

Get Going With Creative Writing is a new, up to date, action packed series of five study books, that encourage children to write.They are aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 11, who have acquired some degree of reading fluency. They provide excellent writing practice for those children preparing to take 11+ examinations or S.A.T.S, but will also benefit other children with special needs, or where English is a second language.These books have a lively magazine type format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of up to date non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing.Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more. More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences - connectives - grammar tips - harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide.The books are suitable for use by teachers in the classroom or parents at home.The themed books can be used in any order, though the subject matter of 'About Me' and 'All About Animals' may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series. The themed books have been written by a teacher or tutor, have been trialled by the children she teaches and comply with the National Curriculum.This is the fourth book in this excellent series from Guinea Pig Education.

Level: EYFS Subject: English An engaging Writing activity book to really help boost your child's progress at every stage of their learning! Fully in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage, this English book provides reassurance whilst supporting your child's learning at home. Combining useful English practice with engaging, colourful illustrations, this Writing workbook helps to boost your child's confidence and develop good learning habits for life. Each fun activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement. Included in this book: questions that allow children to practise the important skills learned at school colourful activities that make learning fun and motivate children to learn at home helpful tips and answers so that you can support your child's learning

180 Days of High-Frequency Words is a fun and effective daily practice workbook designed to help students recognize sight words instantly. This easy-to-use second grade workbook is great for at-home learning or in the classroom. The engaging standards-based activities cover grade-level skills with easy to follow instructions and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding. Each week students learn 5 new words. The repetitive daily activities make reading and writing these words memorable and fun. Watch students build a love of reading as they recognize sight words and start reading independently.Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps. The high-frequency words used are based on Fry s 1,000 Instant Words.

Get Going With Creative Writing aims to teach those children who struggle to write more than a few lines. To give writers loads of ideas to stimulate their thoughts for writing, using fun articles, stories, radio interviews, letters and many more fun ideas. As the child works through the four books they will learn how: 1. to write a short narrative story in three paragraphs 2. to make a story exciting. 3. to use varying sentences 4. to use different styles of writing to make their writing more interesting. 5. to use different literary techniques such as alliteration and onomatopoeia.

Treasure House Composition Skills Teacher's Guides provide at-a-glance lesson planning to guide teachers through the activities in Treasure House Composition Skills Pupil Books. Treasure House Composition Skills Teacher's Guide 1: - provides at-a-glance planning with overviews, step-by-step instructions and answer keys for all Pupil Book units - offers ideas to enable all children to access learning in Support, Embed and Challenge sections - targets individual learning needs with photocopiable resources - maps units to the 2014 National Curriculum for English

12 exciting themed work books to choose from. Each title has a different creative writing theme, which will stimulate a child's imagination and inspire them to write. Each booklet provides 2 or 3 stories in several paragraphs to read and re-draft and provides stimulating ideas for follow up activities. Booklet may be used in any order and purchased by parents as and when required as a magazine would be purchased. Prepares children for more advanced writing. Aimed at children of 9-14 years, who require extra practice with creative writing. Excellent for stretching able writers with additional writing tasks.

This collection of poems is ideal for the primary classroom as it covers seasonal topics such as Harvest, Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night, Christmas, Pancake Day, Easter and many others. There are also poems about the weather and about a variety of creatures which could be used to support the curriculum. Most of them have already been enjoyed by Eleanor McLeod's discerning young pupils. Using poems such as these as a starting point for learning can be fun and informative.Eleanor McLeod is from Swansea, Wales and it was when she began her Primary School teaching career in 1966 that she started writing poems for her pupils. When she decided to change direction and become a professional actress she continued to write poems, stories and dramatic monologues. In 1984 after the birth of her son, she returned to the classroom where all the old favourites and many new ones were tried and enjoyed once again.As a teacher of the LAMDA Speech and Drama syllabus and a member of the LAMDA Examining board and a adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals she realises how welcome and useful a collection of poems like this will be to teachers and performers.

Get Going With Creative Writing aims to teach those children who struggle to write more than a few lines. To give writers loads of ideas to stimulate their thoughts for writing, using fun articles, stories, radio interviews, letters and many more fun ideas. As the child works through the four books they will learn how: 1. to write a short narrative story in three paragraphs 2. to make a story exciting. 3. to use varying sentences 4. to use different styles of writing to make their writing more interesting. 5. to use different literary techniques such as alliteration and onomatopoeia.

Originally published in 1982. This book charts the reading progress of ten children through their first three years at school, concentrating particularly on their problems and the ways they coped with them. The author uses these case studies to analyse the children's understanding, experience of behaviour associated with literacy, and developing knowledge of spelling in the early stages of learning to read. Her analysis of the children's difficulties and successes, against the background of their home experience, classroom activities and teachers' methods, calls in question any simplistic generalisations about the ways that background and teaching method can affect reading progress.

Originally published in 1986. The traditional approach to teaching writing concentrates on mastering the different aspects of writing in the hope that these will eventually unite as a set of integrated skills. More 'progressive' teachers emphasise that writing is a total process which is 'caught' intuitively rather than explicitly taught. Both models are partially unsatisfactory, and consequently a third approach has evolved which seeks to combine the best of both. This book considers this 'systematic' approach, which seeks to retain the emphasis on writing as a total process but identifies within each communicative context the set of sub-skills involved. The author discusses and illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and the changes in professional thinking and practice that are essential to its successful adoption. He presents an overview of the nature of the writing process, to enable teachers to make clearer and more explicit statements about their objectives in setting classroom writing tasks.