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Step-by-Step Guide to Help Your Child Craft Their Own Creative Writing Story
Are you on the hunt for a step-by-step guide to help your child craft their own creative writing story? Say no more as we’ve got our own guide to assist you. Are you wondering how to go about helping your child to craft their very own creative writing story? Perhaps you’ve looked over the basics
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How to Unlock Your Child’s Creativity to Improve Their Creative Writing
Are you wondering how to cope when your child lacks imagination? for their creative writing? Or perhaps you’ve been wondering how you can encourage your child to think more creatively and produce their best writing.
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How to Improve Your Child’s Vocabulary for Their 11 Plus Exams
If you’ve been following our recent content, then you’ll know we’ve been breaking down the different strategies parents can use to improve their child’s vocabulary. We’ve also covered the benefits of crossword puzzles how you can use them to help your child’s spelling and vocabulary to thrive.
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How to Improve Your Child’s Vocabulary in Primary School: Part 2 of 2
Following on from part 1 in this series on improving your child’s vocabulary, this part of the series will cover the last couple of ways you can use to help your child: Synonyms and antonyms Introducing prefix and suffixes Rhyming games Word wall
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How to Improve Your Child’s Vocabulary in Primary School: Part 1 of 2
It can feel like a challenging task when trying to help your child improve their vocabulary, especially if your child isn’t the biggest fan of literacy. However, as a parent, the chances are that you will want to do all that you can to help set them up on the right track, and you know
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The 11+ English Exam: What Your Child Can Expect In The Writing Task
With 11+ exams just around the corner, many children (and their parents) are working on packs and sample papers. The English exam of many grammar schools and independent schools has a creative writing essay – or a writing task of some sort. Each school will have particular topics they will focus on, and so
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How Your Child Can Get Full Marks in 11 Plus The Creative Writing Task
Creative writing is a core component of English in both primary and secondary school assessments and exams. You will find it in SATs assessments, the 11 Plus, and all the way through to GCSE English exams. So, getting a good understanding of what is required is essential! But so many students are baffled about what
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How exactly can you support your child’s academic progress during the summer holidays? Three simple tips.
Schools are out for summer, but if your child has exams this coming up, you probably haven’t switched off mentally. How exactly can you support your child’s academic progress – or help them catch up – while allowing them to have some much-needed downtime?
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15 Creative Writing Prompts for 11-year-olds Preparing for the 11 Plus English Exam
If your child is in year 5 of primary school, then chances are they may be sitting their 11+ exams soon. In many of the 11 Plus exams will be an English paper that includes a creative essay, in which your child will be expected to demonstrate their literacy skills creatively by using extensive language,
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11 Plus Creative Writing: Pictures for Writing Stories
Does your child need some inspiration to get started with their creative writing? Use our pictures to help your child to create their own short stories. Encourage your child to come up with the main character, the setting, a conflict of some sort and a resolution to get started with writing the plan for their