If TV cartoons don't provide enough intellectual stimulation, try these tips to improve your vocabulary and impress your friends, or just yourself.

Pupil outcome: I can compare characterisation across a text. Key learning points: - ‘Escape from Pompeii’ is written from the perspective of Tranio, a young boy. - Characterisation can change over the course of a text’s narrative. -...

Pupil outcome: I can understand the context of 'Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover'. Key learning points: - The Mars rover marked a significant development in space exploration. - ‘Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover’ is a narrative...

Pupil outcome: I can spell a range of words with the prefixes co-, pre-, pro- and sus-. Key learning points: - A prefix is a letter or group of letters at the start of a word which changes its meaning. - The prefixes co-, com- and con-...

Pupil outcome: I can recognise regular verbs in the infinitive and singular persons, use reference materials to identify unknown words, and translate accurately from German to English. Key learning points: - [ch] is a hard sound after a,...

Pupil outcome: I can use my knowledge of singular forms of -ar and -er verbs to say what I and others do and to understand a text about music lessons. Key learning points: - Secure knowledge of sound spelling correspondences helps when...

Mr. Griot shows the student how to use a dictionary and context clues to figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words in text.

Mr. Griot demonstrates how to use context clues to figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words.

"Prefixes and Suffixes" explores how to determine the meanings of unfamiliar complex words by analyzing the words’ prefixes and suffixes.