Carol Vorderman

Help Your Kids with English, Ages 10-16 (Key Stages 3-4) (eBook, ePUB)

A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide, Revision and Reference

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A simple, visual guide to helping children understand English from Carol Vorderman

Reduce the stress of studying English and help your child with their homework by following Help Your Kids with English, a unique visual guide that demystifies the subject for everyone.

Carol Vorderman uses clear, accessible pictures, diagrams and easy-to-follow step-by-steps to cover all the important areas including punctuation, grammar, spelling and communication skills, so you can approach even the most complex English concepts with confidence. Includes cross-references throughout to show links between language ideas and a glossary of key terms.

Help Your Kids with English is the perfect guide for every frustrated parent and struggling child who wants to understand English and put what they've learnt into practise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780241011836
• Artikelnr.: 54005951

Autorenporträt

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 worked with them to build the bestselling Made Easy Series which includes Maths, English and Science.

Inhaltsangabe

• 1: Foreword
• 2: Why learn the rules?
• 3: Spoken and written language
• 4: English around the world
• 5: Grammar
• • • 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
• 6: Punctuation
• • 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
• • 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
• • 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
• • 1: Reference - Grammar
  • 2: Reference - Punctuation
  • 3: Reference - Spelling
  • 4: Reference - Communication skills
  • 5: Glossary
  • 6: Index
  • 7: Acknowledgements

Rezensionen

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. Natasha Harding The Sun 20130829