Help Your Kids with English, Ages 10-16 (Key Stages 3-4)

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 Education Champion and has helped them to build the bestselling "Made Easy" series, which includes topics in maths, English, and science and technology. She has also encouraged parents and their teenage children to work together in the "Help Your Kids" series, which includes Help Your Kids With Maths and Help Your Kids With Music. Versatile as ever, Carol has also provided an accessible and fun entry into the world of computer programming with Computer Coding Projects For Kids.

• 1: Foreword2: Why learn the rules?3: Spoken and written language4: English around the world5: Grammar1: The purpose of grammar2: Parts of speech3: Nouns4: Plurals5: Adjectives6: Comparatives and superlatives7: Articles8: Determiners9: Pronouns10: Number and gender11: Verbs12: Adverbs13: Simple tenses14: Perfect and continuous tenses15: Participles16: Auxiliary verbs17: Irregular verbs18: Verb agreement19: Voices and moods20: Phrasal verbs21: Conjunctions22: Prepositions23: Interjections24: Phrases25: Clauses26: Sentences27: Compound sentences28: Complex sentences29: Using clauses correctly30: Managing modifiers31: Commonly misused words32: Negatives33: Relative clauses34: Idioms, analogies and figures of speech35: Colloquialisms and slang36: Direct and indirect speech6: Punctuation1: What is punctuation?2: Full stops and ellipses3: Commas4: Other uses of commas5: Semi-colons6: Colons7: Apostrophes8: Hyphens9: Inverted commas10: Question marks11: Exclamation marks12: Brackets and dashes13: Bullet points14: Numbers, dates and time15: Other punctuation16: Italics7: Spelling1: Why learn to spell?2: Alphabetical order3: Vowel sounds4: Consonant sounds5: Syllables6: Morphemes7: Understanding English irregularities8: Roots9: Prefixes and suffixes10: Hard and soft letter sounds11: Words ending in -e or -y12: Words ending in -tion, -sion or -ssion13: Words ending in -able or -ible14: Words ending in -le, -el, -al or -ol15: Single and double consonant words16: The “i before e except after c” rule17: Capital letters18: Silent letters19: Compound words20: Irregular word spellings21: Homonyms, homophones and homographs22: Confusing words23: Other confusing words24: Abbreviations25: British and American spellings26: More British and American spellings8: Communication skills1: Effective communication2: Picking the right words3: Making sentences interesting4: Planning and research5: Paragraphing6: Genre, purpose and audience7: Reading and commenting on texts8: Layout and presentational features9: Writing to inform10: Newspaper articles11: Letters and e-mails12: Writing to influence13: Writing to explain or advise14: Writing to analyse or review15: Writing to describe16: Writing from personal experience17: Writing a narrative18: Writing for the Web19: Writing a script20: Re-creations21: Checking and editing22: The spoken word23: Debates and role plays24: Writing a speech25: Presentation skills8: Reference1: Reference - Grammar2: Reference - Punctuation3: Reference - Spelling4: Reference - Communication skills5: Glossary6: Index7: Acknowledgements

The queen of numbers has turned her attention to words. Combining colourful diagrams and illustrations with step-by-step instructions, this makes English easier to fathom.