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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 in English with this homeschool learning resource for 5-6 year olds. English Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman's series of DK workbooks packed with notes and tips to make home learning about English 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 practise using paragraphs and punctuation, similes and metaphors, and looks at different types of writing, such as instructional and information text. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning, English Made Easy is a great way to improve your child's English skills - "the more you practise, the better you'll be!" (Carol Vorderman)
List of contents
1: Initial and final sounds
2: Medial sounds a, e and i
3: Medial sounds o and u
4: Compound words
5: The ai sound
6: An action rhyme
7: The ee sound
8: The ie sound
9: Numbers 1 to 20
10: Vowels and consonants
11: A fantasy story
12: The oo sound
13: Classroom words
14: The oa sound
15: A poem to share
16: Verbs
17: Verb tenses
18: Weather words
19: Themed rhymes
20: Punctuations
21: Recording information
22: Sequencing a story
23: Themed poems
24: Contents and index
25: Dictionaries
26: A fantasy story
27: Fiction and non-fiction
28: Non-fiction
29: Question words
30: Recounting events
31: The days of the week
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 includes exercises and activities for your child to strengthen their learning in school.
