Product Reviews
Amazon Review - 3 Feb 2010
**** A very useful text for children struggling a little with the demands of Key Stage 2 in later primary school. It offers a variety of vocabulary, grammar and comprehension exercises on text and poetry. All materials are arranged thematically and also suggest additional reading and written exercises. A particularly good text for home schooled children.
Customer review - 7 Jan 2010
I'm a year six student. My form teacher has given me this book so we can practise for our entrance exam. It has helped me a lot in the past few months and I would recommend using it as a guide for the 11+ test.
Customer review - 10 Mar 2009
I am in Year 6 and I have completed this book.I think it has really helped me into passing my entrance exam which was in late october.I enjoyed doing it aswell and it made working at home feel more fun.
Amazon review - 19 Feb 2009
A very useful text for children struggling a little with the demands of Key Stage 2 in later primary school. It offers a variety of vocabulary, grammar and comprehension exercises on text and poetry. All materials are arranged thematically and also suggest additional reading and written exercises. A particularly good text for home schooled children.
Nigel Ramage, Papplewick School - 28 Oct 2008
This excellent book has provoked and delighted our Year 6 boys in class and helped them to enjoy seeing how English works. Their creative writing jumped forward as a result of meeting Susan Elkin's first book.
Anni, Moray Firth School - 12 Feb 2008
My team are so enthusiastic about the So you really want to learn English and the Junior English books that we had to send off a new order immediately! We are real fans!
Rebecca Connet, ISEB - 30 Jun 2004
Susan Elkin`s new book is an excellent resource for English teachers. Offering a varied range of both fiction and non-fiction passages for study, as well as countless opportunities for pupils to read and write themselves, it promises to prepare pupils in an effective and thorough way for entrance exams at both 11+ and 13+. However, it is perhaps the book`s ability to engender an interest in the language we use, as well as the many suggestions for further reading, that excited me most. As well as providing a wealth of activities to make the classrom a vibrant and exciting place, it also seeks to foster a lively and active involvement in literature, encouraging puils to read with enjoyment. I therefore believe that this new resource will be welcomed by both pupils and staff.