Worksheet 2 - Opening sentences for imaginative stories

Worksheet 2a - Answering short answer questions on the foundation tier paper

Worksheet 2b - Finding your way around the Edexcel site

Worksheet 3 - Writing to Explore, Imagine and Entertain

Why use them?

Supplementary worksheets can be useful for a number of reasons. Primarily, they help to strengthen your grasp of what you’ve learned on the course. They are also very useful for revision purposes. After all, in a condensed course, there are often only one or two opportunities to practise a particular skill, and the worksheets give you a chance to really raise your game in a particular area.

Another important function of worksheets is to help you to come up with ideas and answers and to be able to write them quickly; something which is important in the exam. From time to time I’ll suggest that you try to answer a particular exercise in a given time limit. This can be good fun, and as you’ll find several examples of each skill-test on the worksheets, you can practise writing to speed with different exercises.

Occasionally, too, on the basis of your assignments, I may also suggest that you do some additional exercises on the worksheets to consolidate skills.  

Above all, I want you to enjoy using the worksheets. They are meant to be fun and to help enhance your enjoyment of reading and writing.

Do worksheets get marked?

I’ve tried to keep the cost of the course as low as possible and included in this cost are ten tutor-marked assignments. Unfortunately, however, the price doesn’t include the cost of marking the worksheets. This isn’t altogether a bad thing. After all, the whole purpose of home-education is that parents are involved in their children’s learning and this is something that you might want to evaluate on a parent/child basis.  Where relevant, the worksheets have answer sheets.

If, however, you would like some extra feedback and support, this can be provided at an additional cost of £7.50 per worksheet. Please forward the worksheet to me at 75 Trench Rd, Telford, TF2 6PF), together with an s.a.e. and I shall mark and return them to you. 

Do please get in touch with me if you can think of anything else that you would like to see covered on the worksheets and I shall do my best to oblige.

Best wishes,

Catherine