Table of Contents

• 1: Writing dialogue
• 2: Homophones and homographs
• 3: Puns
• 4: Shortened words
• 5: Word origins
• 6: Similes
• 7: Prepositions
• 8: Metaphors
• 9: Reading a text
• 10: Reading and understanding
• 11: A traditional story
• 12: Your own retelling
• 13: Possessives and plurals
• 14: Clauses
• 15: Understanding poetry
• 16: Reading and understanding
• 17: Persuasive arguments
• 18: Writing a summary
• 19: More persuasive writing
• 20: Conservation dictionary
• 21: Letter of complaint
• 22: Reading and understanding
• 23: Information from posters
• 24: Newspaper report
• 25: Reading a classic novel
• 26: Reading and understanding
• 27: Reading another classic novel
• 28: Reading and understanding
• 29: Connectives

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 and Science subjects.