Schofield and Sims English Skills book 5
By Schofield and Sims

English Skillsand provides regular graded practice to develop pupils' literacy skills at Key Stage 2. Key areas are constantly revisited, giving pupils the intensive and rigorous practice that is essential to embed learning and prepare for the Key Stage 2 national tests.and English Skills 5and is designed for pupils in Year 6 and features:exercises covering grammar, punctuation and sentence formationwriting tasks to encourage children to apply what they have learnt in their own writingproofreading tasks to check understandingaand Progress chartand for pupils to record their own achievementsaand Glossaryand to support the confident use of literacy terms.Topics covered include: use of a colon, semi-colon and dash between clauses; sentence variation; question tags; colons and semi-colons in lists; the active and passive voice; ellipsis; editing sentences for effect; and vocabulary and grammar for formal writing.The accompanying answer book,and English Skills 5 Answersand (ISBN 9780721714134), contains answers to all the questions inand English Skills 5and while a separate teacher's guide,and English Skills Teacher's Guideand (ISBN 9780721714165), contains further guidance and resources to help children practise and develop literacy skills. A selection of free supporting downloads is also available from the Schofield andamp; Sims website.