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Homework Help for English: an A to Z of grammar (Help your kids)
£5.70
Level: Primary
Subject: English
Ideal for parents with children at primary school
Help your kids with their homework or SATs preparation with this parent’s guide to grammar. It will help parents and carers to understand what your child is learning at school, clear up homework confusion, support your child’s understanding of important vocabulary for the SATs and brush up your own grammar knowledge. Provides full coverage of new curriculum grammar terminology and includes simple explanations with examples for quick reference.
For SATs practice for your child, try our KS2 English Revision Guide (9780008112752) and Practice Workbook (9780008112776) or our KS2 Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling SATs Question Book (9780008201609) for extra SATs practice.
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by ⭐Bubs & Puds⭐
If you have a child who is about to sit their first lot of SATs at KS2 then this book is essential. I know in this world of search engines and mobile devices there is little need for reference books, but I am old school. Once you have an English language reference book then it is there for life, the English language doesn’t change…just words are added.
This small A5 book has a soft cover and is rammed with information over 48 pages.
It covers literally (get the in joke?) everything from adverbs to adjectives to superlative adjectives to ellipsis etc.
So get this and a Dictionary, then you are pretty much set for all your kids academic lives!
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by Lesley70
I was slightly surprised when I received this book as it was much smaller than I was expecting. At only 48 pages it is quite a slim volume but it is packed with information about grammar. I’m sure there are books out there with more pages and which are more in-depth but this is a very useful at-a-glance guide and it saves on googling.
I don’t really have any memories of being specifically taught grammar at school, other than :- a verb is a doing word, an adjective is a describing word, an adverb ends in -ly and a noun is a name of something. So now my daughter is in year 2 and she seems to be learning all about conjunctions and subordinate clauses (okay maybe not that one yet), and I don’t have a clue about any of it – which is where this book comes in.
It’s formatted just like a dictionary, so if you want to look up what an adjective is you can go to page 4 and get a definition and examples of what an adjective is – apparently it’s a word that modifies a noun (isn’t that a fancy way of saying “describing word”?). You can find yourself flicking through the pages trying to learn about one thing (adjectives), for example comparative adjectives are described on page 11 and superlative adjectives are described on page 38 – rather than everything about adjectives being in one section. I feel this is a minor niggle for me, as I’m going to be using it to look up specific things that my daughter is talking about as she goes through the academic year.
As well as helping with my daughter’s homework, I’m also finding it useful to refer to just to increase my own English language knowledge. The language it uses to define the terms is straightforward and easy to follow. Overall – I think it’s a useful book.
by P. Barclay
A helpful book which has not only helped my children with their grammar, it has also brushed my grammar.
These days computers do the checking for you, spell check and some punctuation. And then you can pay for sophisticated checkers/helpers like “Grammarly.com”
The Homework Help For English is packed with all that is required to understand what is and isn’t required in structured sentences. The examples are easy to understand, you just need to remember them in the real world or at exam time. It’s based at KS2 students.
The book is small and compact (A5 size) so it can fit into a school bag with ease.
I’m enjoying the learning this A to Z grammar little book with my child.
by sulkycat
Firstly, this is a very small book. It’s roughly A5 (half the size of a sheet of printer paper) and very thin (48 pages).
There is quite a lot of information packed into those few pages.
I think this book is a bit hit and miss. I was a teacher for a long time, and suspect this would have confused more parents than it helped.
For example, some of the dictionary style layout is not very logical.
Adverb phrases and adverbials both refer to adverbs (so far so good!) but the actual explanation (of what an adverb is) comes two pages further on. It would make more sense to have adverbs as the lead subject, with adverbials and adverb phrases after.
Similarly noun phrases is before noun, with plural nouns several pages afterwards. Concrete nouns are several pages in front of noun. Again it would make more sense to have a section about nouns, all grouped together.
I appreciate that the writers have tried to stick to alphabetical order, but it doesn’t quite work (in my ever so ‘umble opinion).
That said, I do like the dictionary style column at the edges of each page, showing which letter of the alphabet we are on (eg n for noun).
I feel that several of the examples given in each section aren’t always as clear as they could be.
Maybe the book tries to cram too much information into too small a book?
The content is comprehensive, and usually well explained. I just feel there are more user friendly ways to set it all out.
by P. Barclay
This is an exceedingly slim volume of grammar principles which rather surprised me. However, it is beautifully laid out in alphabetical order and filled with appropriate examples. This is not an exercise book but a prescriptive, handy, quick-glance guide. The cover has a gloss finish and the interior pages are of good quality to withstand excessive thumbing.
The grammar is succinct, helpful and moreover, relevant to that which is learned in school. It is also fairly comprehensive. The book is especially helpful for a parent who may be unfamiliar with grammatical points and find themselves in a position of assisting a child with homework.
by Amazonian
I am familiar with all the grammar points in this book and I think the contents are pitched the right level for 10, 11 year olds. I have got issue with the organisation and layout. It is done alphabetically, good for a reference book but not so good as explanatory book. Lots of contents are crammed into this very thin volume, which means it is very busy on a single page. My child lost interest quickly. I tried to go through it with him, but I lost interest too soon after. Now I am keeping it as a reference book for when a topic comes up and we need to find an age appropriate explanation. In t his respect, the author has done a very decent job.