Advantages: Great activities, easy to understand and read Disadvantages: Quite expensive
THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING PHONICS
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I qualified to teach in years 1 and 2 (ages 5-7) and had little phonics training. Throughout university we learnt the importance of phonics but never r ...
Advantages: Comprehensive guide to what to look for, as well as to technical terms and musical genres Disadvantages: Dated; some surprising omissions
This is one of several titles in the Miller’s Collector’s Guide series, which is generally devoted to various categories of antiques. How up to date? The first thing that struck me about it was that it was published in 2002. Not only is it stil ...
Advantages: Feels like a labour of love, written for the fans, enormous fun, lots of insight Disadvantages: Not the best photo reproduction
Background Many, if not most, successful book series these days end up having some sort of "companion" written to accompany them. In some cases these are straightforward and rather uninspired alphabetical lists of every person, place or object that ...
If I was writing this review for the members on this site, the chances are I probably wouldn't have done so. The reason being is that this book, will only interest a very limited number of people. However this review site goes far and beyond its members ...
Advantages: Excellent examples of texts; advice on answering Disadvantages: Answer book sold separately
No matter which exam board students take the GCSE English Language exam with, they will have to sit a paper that presents two non-fiction texts or 'items' which they will be questioned on and asked to compare in some way. Geoff Barton's 'Comprehension to ...
