How to be Brilliant at Spelling

How to be Brilliant at Spelling
Author: Irene Yates
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0857475452

These activities will stimulate children's interest in language and how it works and help them to become confident and positive spellers. The activities include: learning the vowels and consonants; the four step method; spotting the mistake; 'y' for 'i' and 'ee'; regular and irregular plurals; growing new words from roots; spelling puzzling w-words; learning the 'ough' pattern.

How to be Brilliant at Writing Stories

How to be Brilliant at Writing Stories
Author: Irene Yates
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0857473743

These worksheets focus on the process of writing - from the initial idea gathering to redrafting and the final product. The activities recognize that a sense of audience and a sense of purpose are crucial, and allow children to feel ownership of their stories and to understand that not all stories need to be published. The activities include: getting ideas; making notes; making a plot table; planning the beginning, middle and end; making up characters; using a dictionary and thesaurus; using speech marks; different kinds of story.

How to be Brilliant at Writing Poetry

How to be Brilliant at Writing Poetry
Author: Irene Yates
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2010-11-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0857473751

These open-ended sheets provide models for different forms of poetry, from acrostic and haiku to rondelet. All the models included have an in-built success factor because their simple, but clever structures invite the children to mirror them. Once sutdents have mastered the forms, they will be able to apply them to any topic ideas, including those given elsewhere in this book. The activities include: finding a beginning; using words to paint a picture; making up similes; rhyming; writing limericks, haikus, acrostic poems, riddles, cinquains, rondelets, poems that repeat a line, and poems that go on and on...

How to be Brilliant at Grammar

How to be Brilliant at Grammar
Author: Irene Yates
Publisher: Brilliant Publications
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN: 189767502X

"[P]rovides a flexible, but structured, resource for teaching children to understand and use parts of speech and punctuation."--Preliminary page

Spelling It Out

Spelling It Out
Author: Misty Adoniou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2022-02-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1009112872

Spelling It Out, Revised edition crushes the myth that good spelling comes naturally, good spelling comes from good teaching.

If You're So Smart How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi? (A Book About Dyslexia)

If You're So Smart How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi? (A Book About Dyslexia)
Author: Barbara Esham
Publisher: Mainstream Connections
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2012-12-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1603364528

ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia, Learning Styles, Learning Disabilities Introduces the mainstream student and educator to the world of the child who struggles academically. The main character discovers her father is dyslexic, as is one of her classmates-- and she tries to make sense of it.

Spell It Out

Spell It Out
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-06-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1250003474

Presents a history of English spelling through chapters that cover such topics as the introduction of the Roman alphabet, each letter's origins, and the development of long and short vowels.

Building Spelling Skills, Grade 2

Building Spelling Skills, Grade 2
Author: Jo Ellen Moore
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2002-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781557998408

Provide students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher's Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources provide everything needed to help students master and retain basic skills. In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 6+, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list.

How Words Get Good

How Words Get Good
Author: Rebecca Lee
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2022-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1782837590

'Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat' Stephen Poole, Guardian 'An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about books, writers and their editors' Sunday Times 'Enjoyable ... engaging ... insightful' Independent Once upon a time, a writer had an idea. They wrote it down. But what happened next? Join Rebecca Lee, professional text-improver, as she embarks on a fascinating journey to find out how words get from an author's brain to finished, printed books. She'll reveal the dark arts of ghostwriters, explore the secret world of literary agents and uncover the hidden beauty of typesetting. Along the way, her quest will be punctuated by a litany of little-known (but often controversial) considerations that make a big impact: ellipses, indexes, hyphens, esoteric points of grammar and juicy post-publication corrections. After all, the best stories happen when it all goes wrong. From foot-and-note disease to the town of Index, Missouri - turn the page to discover how books get made and words get good.* * Or, at least, better