* Easy to use - find the words you want, fast! Written and designed to ensure it is both age appropriate and beautifully easy to use. * See words in action - real examples from the best children's books show you how it's done. Example sentences from authors including David Almond, Anne Fine, Philip Pullman, William Golding, Anthony Horowitz, Beverley Naidoo, Jacqueline Wilson and many more from KS3/ 4 Framework reading lists as well as age-appropriate fiction. * All the words you need - includes all curriculum words for secondary level. Specifically aimed at KS3 and KS4 across the curriculum, closely linked to the KS3 Literacy Framework, plus language panels for project work, cross-curriculum vocabulary and synonyms for overused words.

 

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 928 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2006 by Oxford University Press .

* John Mannion is a former Head of English at a beacon school. He has worked on a website aimed at high achieving students taking the NEAB GCSE. John Mannion is the author of the Collins School Grammar series. He also co-wrote Collins English Programme and English Solutions (Longman). Susan Rennie is the author of the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary and has also worked on many dictionaries for children and adults. She also writes books in Scots for children and has translated the first Scots edition of Tintin. Robert Allen was Editorial Director of Mensa Publications for ten years and a founder of Carlton Books' puzzle list. Published around the world, he has more than two dozen puzzle books to his credit. He lives close to Cambridge.