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Help your child be the top of the class with the best-selling home-study series from Carol Vorderman.
Carol Vorderman can help your child succeed at spelling with this homeschool learning resource for 7-8 year olds.
Spelling Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman's series of DK workbooks packed with notes and tips to make home learning about spelling 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 to learn spelling for Key Stage 2. It includes prefixes, plurals, silent letters, and plenty of spelling practice. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning,
Spelling Made Easy is a great way to improve your child's spelling skills - "the more you practise, the better you'll be!" (Carol Vorderman)
List of contents
- 1: Find the plurals
- 2: Find the rule
- 3: Singular to plural
- 4: Making plurals
- 5: The prefixes "un" and "dis"
- 6: The prefix "pre"
- 7: The prefix "de"
- 8: Recycling words
- 9: Secret message
- 10: Contractions
- 11: Rhyming pairs
- 12: Rhyme time
- 13: Blends and ends
- 14: Silent letters
- 15: The "le" crossword
- 16: Words in words
- 17: Spelling practice
- 18: Compound words
- 19: Find the rule
- 20: Add "ing"
- 21: What are they doing?
- 22: Adjectives with "y" endings
- 23: Adverbs ending in "ly"
- 24: The suffixes "er" and "est"
- 25: Find the rule
- 26: The suffixes "ful" and "less"
- 27: More about "ful" and "less"
- 28: Word-maker
- 29: More spelling practice
- 30: Answer section with parents' notes and glossary
About the author
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 Educational Champion and has worked with them to build the bestselling Made Easy Series, which includes Maths, English, Science, and Computer Coding subjects. She has a degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and was awarded an MBE for services to broadcasting in 2000.
Summary
Packed with notes and tips, this book supports the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2. It also includes exercises and activities for your child to strengthen their learning in school.
