Help Your Kids with English, Ages 10-16 (Key Stages 3-4): A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide, Revision and Reference (Help Your Kids With)
De (autor) Carol Vordermanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 03 Jun 2013
This visual reference book takes you through all the different parts of the English language, leaving you ready to help your children tackle the trickiest of subjects.
Carol Vorderman's unique study aid encourages parents and children to work together as a team to understand and use all aspects of the English language, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling. This latest title in the best-selling Help Your Kids series combines pictures, diagrams, instructions, and examples to cover the components of the school syllabus, while building knowledge, boosting confidence, and aiding understanding.
With your support, children can overcome the challenges of English, leaving them calm, confident, and exam ready.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781409314943
ISBN-10: 1409314944
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 197 x 243 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Dorling Kindersley - DK
Colecția DK
Seria Help Your Kids With
Locul publicării: London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1409314944
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 197 x 243 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Dorling Kindersley - DK
Colecția DK
Seria Help Your Kids With
Locul publicării: London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Carol
Vorderman,
one
of
Britain's
best
known
and
loved
TV
personalities,
feels
passionately
about
the
value
of
education.
Carol
joined
forces
with
DK
in
1999
to
become
DK's
Education
Champion
and
has
helped
them
to
build
the
bestselling
"Made
Easy"
series,
which
includes
topics
in
maths,
English,
and
science
and
technology.
She
has
also
encouraged
parents
and
their
teenage
children
to
work
together
in
the
"Help
Your
Kids"
series,
which
includes
Help
Your
Kids
With
Maths
and
Help
Your
Kids
With
Music.
Versatile
as
ever,
Carol
has
also
provided
an
accessible
and
fun
entry
into
the
world
of
computer
programming
with
Computer
Coding
Projects
For
Kids.
Recenzii
The
queen
of
numbers
has
turned
her
attention
to
words.
Combining
colourful
diagrams
and
illustrations
with
step-by-step
instructions,
this
makes
English
easier
to
fathom.
Cuprins
- 1: Foreword
- 2: Why learn the rules?
- 3: Spoken and written language
- 4: English around the world
- 5: Grammar
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- 1: The purpose of grammar
- 2: Parts of speech
- 3: Nouns
- 4: Plurals
- 5: Adjectives
- 6: Comparatives and superlatives
- 7: Articles
- 8: Determiners
- 9: Pronouns
- 10: Number and gender
- 11: Verbs
- 12: Adverbs
- 13: Simple tenses
- 14: Perfect and continuous tenses
- 15: Participles
- 16: Auxiliary verbs
- 17: Irregular verbs
- 18: Verb agreement
- 19: Voices and moods
- 20: Phrasal verbs
- 21: Conjunctions
- 22: Prepositions
- 23: Interjections
- 24: Phrases
- 25: Clauses
- 26: Sentences
- 27: Compound sentences
- 28: Complex sentences
- 29: Using clauses correctly
- 30: Managing modifiers
- 31: Commonly misused words
- 32: Negatives
- 33: Relative clauses
- 34: Idioms, analogies and figures of speech
- 35: Colloquialisms and slang
- 36: Direct and indirect speech
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- 6: Punctuation
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- 1: What is punctuation?
- 2: Full stops and ellipses
- 3: Commas
- 4: Other uses of commas
- 5: Semi-colons
- 6: Colons
- 7: Apostrophes
- 8: Hyphens
- 9: Inverted commas
- 10: Question marks
- 11: Exclamation marks
- 12: Brackets and dashes
- 13: Bullet points
- 14: Numbers, dates and time
- 15: Other punctuation
- 16: Italics
- 7: Spelling
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- 1: Why learn to spell?
- 2: Alphabetical order
- 3: Vowel sounds
- 4: Consonant sounds
- 5: Syllables
- 6: Morphemes
- 7: Understanding English irregularities
- 8: Roots
- 9: Prefixes and suffixes
- 10: Hard and soft letter sounds
- 11: Words ending in -e or -y
- 12: Words ending in -tion, -sion or -ssion
- 13: Words ending in -able or -ible
- 14: Words ending in -le, -el, -al or -ol
- 15: Single and double consonant words
- 16: The “i before e except after c” rule
- 17: Capital letters
- 18: Silent letters
- 19: Compound words
- 20: Irregular word spellings
- 21: Homonyms, homophones and homographs
- 22: Confusing words
- 23: Other confusing words
- 24: Abbreviations
- 25: British and American spellings
- 26: More British and American spellings
- 8: Communication skills
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- 1: Effective communication
- 2: Picking the right words
- 3: Making sentences interesting
- 4: Planning and research
- 5: Paragraphing
- 6: Genre, purpose and audience
- 7: Reading and commenting on texts
- 8: Layout and presentational features
- 9: Writing to inform
- 10: Newspaper articles
- 11: Letters and e-mails
- 12: Writing to influence
- 13: Writing to explain or advise
- 14: Writing to analyse or review
- 15: Writing to describe
- 16: Writing from personal experience
- 17: Writing a narrative
- 18: Writing for the Web
- 19: Writing a script
- 20: Re-creations
- 21: Checking and editing
- 22: The spoken word
- 23: Debates and role plays
- 24: Writing a speech
- 25: Presentation skills
- 8: Reference
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- 1: Reference - Grammar
- 2: Reference - Punctuation
- 3: Reference - Spelling
- 4: Reference - Communication skills
- 5: Glossary
- 6: Index
- 7: Acknowledgements