Year 5/P6 Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary Progress Tests

Clarke, Rachel

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Collins

Year 6/P7 Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary Progress Tests (Collins Tests & Assessment)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Assess Fluency in Reading

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Review\nHeart-wrenchingly tender―Observer\nMoving, thought-provoking and so very important. I'm immeasurably grateful to have read it, and it will stay with me. In death, we learn about life\nWhat a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It sings with joy and kindness\nThis is a wonderful book. Rachel takes the worst life can throw at us and shows us the beauty in it\nShe writes with a tender, lyrical beauty―Sunday Times\nMoving . . . an honest account from the front line of death―The Times\nHonest, clear-sighted and immensely wise, Clarke's book is laced with loss, vet raises a jubilant toast to life―Literary Review\nHer words are brimful of love, grace and kindness―Guardian\nAn enthralling and deeply affecting book . . . It is [the] blend of the personal and professional that makes Dear Life so special―Express\nA heartbreaking, exhilarating read―Guardian\nA truly wonderful book. Read it\nA truly beautiful book about death and life and the price of love. Told by a doctor, with compassion and wisdom. I cried, but they were warm, comforting tears. It made me think about stuff I fear in a new and better way\nA touching and profound meditation on what it means to be human . . . it is a remarkable book―Guardian\nA magnificent, tender book―Independent\nDear Life names the tension between love and risk that gives life its sweetness. It takes readers to the edge of life in supportive, wise company\n'What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and - several times - to tears. It sings with joy and kindness' Robert Macfarlane\nFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places. 
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable. 
Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love. 
And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world. 
Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.

Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss and Consolation

Parenting & Relationships

ABACUS +

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unwell patient in quarantine and their distraught family outside? To be uncertain whether the protective equipment you wear fits the science or the size of the government stockpile? To strive your utmost to maintain your humanity even while barricaded behind visors and masks?\nRachel is a palliative care doctor who looked after the most gravely unwell patients on the Covid-19 wards of her hospital. Amid the tensions, fatigue and rising death toll, she witnessed the courage of patients and NHS staff alike in conditions of unprecedented adversity. For all the bleakness and fear, she found that moments that could stop you in your tracks abounded. People who rose to their best, upon facing the worst, as a microbe laid waste to the population.\nHer new book, Breathtaking, is an unflinching insider's account of medicine in the time of coronavirus. Drawing on testimony from nursing, acute and intensive care colleagues - as well as, crucially, her patients - Clarke argue that this age of contagion has inspired a profound attentiveness to - and gratitude for - what matters most in life.

Breathtaking: the UK’s human story of Covid

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

InDear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end. Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which thequality, not quantityof life truly matters. In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He'd inspired her to become a doctor, and the stories he had told her as a child proved formative when it came to deciding what sort of medicine she would practice. But for all her professional exposure to dying, she remained a grieving daughter. Dear Life follows how Rachel came to understand--as a child, as a doctor, as a human being--how best to help patients in the final stages of life, and what that might mean in practice.

Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss

Thomas Dunne Books

Dear Life

Review\nA truly beautiful book about death and life and the price of love. Told by a doctor, with compassion and wisdom. I cried, but they were warm, comforting tears. It made me think about stuff I fear in a new and better way\nWhat a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It sings with joy and kindness\nThis is a wonderful book. Rachel takes the worst life can throw at us and shows us the beauty in it\nShe writes with a tender, lyrical beauty―Sunday Times\nMoving . . . an honest account from the front line of death―The Times\nHonest, clear-sighted and immensely wise, Clarke's book is laced with loss, vet raises a jubilant toast to life―Literary Review\nHer words are brimful of love, grace and kindness―Guardian\nAn enthralling and deeply affecting book . . . It is [the] blend of the personal and professional that makes Dear Life so special―Express\nA heartbreaking, exhilarating read―Guardian\nA truly wonderful book. Read it\nA touching and profound meditation on what it means to be human . . . it is a remarkable book―Guardian\nA magnificent, tender book―Independent\nDear Life names the tension between love and risk that gives life its sweetness. It takes readers to the edge of life in supportive, wise company\nMoving, thought-provoking and so very important. I'm immeasurably grateful to have read it, and it will stay with me. In death, we learn about life\n'A magnificent, tender book' Independent\n'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' Guardian\n'She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty' Sunday Times\nFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places. 
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable. 
Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love. 
And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world. 
Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Little,Brown

'Rachel takes the worst life can throw at us and shows us the beauty in it' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt\nIncluded in Best Books to read in 2021 pieces in the Sunday Times, Guardian, Financial Times, New Stateman, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Evening Standard, The Tablet, Sunday Business Post, Irish Times, iPaper and Stylist Online.\nHow does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unwell patient in quarantine and their distraught family outside? To be uncertain whether the protective equipment you wear fits the science or the size of the government stockpile? To strive your utmost to maintain your humanity even while barricaded behind visors and masks?\nRachel is a palliative care doctor who looked after some of the most gravely unwell patients on the Covid-19 wards of her hospital. Amid the tensions, fatigue and rising death toll, she witnessed the courage of patients and NHS staff alike in conditions of unprecedented adversity. For all the bleakness and fear, she found that moments that could stop you in your tracks abounded. People who rose to their best, upon facing the worst, as a microbe laid waste to the population.\nHer new book, Breathtaking, is an unflinching insider's account of medicine in the time of coronavirus. Drawing on testimony from nursing, acute and intensive care colleagues - as well as, crucially, her patients - Clarke argues that this age of contagion has inspired a profound attentiveness to - and gratitude for - what matters most in life.\n'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' Guardian\n'She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty' Sunday Times

Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle that Saved a Child's Life

Professionals & Academics

Scribner

"I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim corridors wanting to sob with sheer exhaustion, forgotten to eat, forgotten to drink, drawn on every fibre of strength that I possess to keep my patients safe from harm." How does it feel to be spat out of medical school into a world of pain, loss and trauma that you feel wholly ill-equipped to handle? To be a medical novice who makes decisions which – if you get them wrong – might forever alter, or end, a person’s life?In Your Life in My Hands, television journalist turned junior doctor Rachel Clarke captures the extraordinary realities of life on the NHS frontline. During last year’s historic junior doctor strikes, Rachel was at the forefront of the campaign against the government’s imposed contract upon young doctors. Her heartfelt, deeply personal account of life as a junior doctor in today’s NHS is both a powerful polemic on the degradation of Britain’s most vital public institution and a love letter of optimism and hope to that same health service.

Your Life In My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story

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