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Big Vocab, Better Stories

Lots of parents ask what they can do to help with their child’s English development, particularly their story writing. Consider this - If you want to build a fabulous house, you need fabulous materials. If you want to write a wonderful story you need wonderful words - and lots of them. In short, they need an extensive vocabulary

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Spelling - Why is it so tricky?

Read the following paragraph and reflect on your reading.

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When reading predictions don't make sense

Read the following paragraph and reflect on your reading.

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Apostrophes, and comma’s (spot the deliberate errors)

More than a hundred years ago, the great writer George Bernard Shaw refused to use apostrophes, however there’s still no sign of them going away.

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Spelling with meaning

Most children begin the new school year with hope - either hope that this year will be as rewarding as the last or hope that things will be a bit better this time around.

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