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How to use this book
Literacy Basics helps you to help your child practise many important basic skills covered in the
National Literacy Strategy and National Curriculum.
Each book is divided into 30 units of work that focus on one clear objective.
Each unit is designed using the same, easy-to-follow key features.
Title
Target learning objective. Look and learn
Some letter patterns are very common. They are very helpful for spelling.
Look and learn
Introduces and explains a 4 a eon
the target objective. abeeinatree abeastonthebeach atoadontheroad acrow inthe snow
Provides an example to Practice
illustrate it. Make some words.
Practice
Provides straightforward
practice activities based
on the target objective.
Challenge
Choose ee or ea. = Choose oa or ow.
Challenge aa
Provides activities to 1. c_t extend and challenge. teh:
7.g t
q. ‘si- 2
Suggested way of using the book
@ It is suggested that your child works @ Help your child get started on the Practice
systematically through the book. section.
@ Try tackling one unit per week. @ After this, your child can start to work fairly
independently through the page, but will need @ Read through and discuss the Look and learn further Support and encouragement. section with your child to make sure the key
objective is understood. @ The answers are supplied at the end of the book
for checking each unit on its completion.
Enjoy the book!
igloobooks
Published in 2013
by Igloo Books Ltd
Cottage Farm
Sywell
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www. igloobooks.com
Copyright © 2005 Igloo Books Ltd
OCE001 0613
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ISBN: 978-1-84817-785-7
Letts Educational, 414 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5TF
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Text: © Letts Educational Ltd 1999
Author: Louis Fidge
Printed and manufactured in China
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Contents
Letter patterns
Word order
Adding ed and ing
Vowels and consonants
Making sense of sentences
Conjunctions
Rhyming
Word building
Full stops and question marks
Putting words in groups
Antonyms
Compound words
Looking carefully at words
Speech marks
The letters wh and ph
Syllables
Verbs
Beginnings and endings
The letters er, ir and ur
Check your sentences
Looking for letter patterns
Commas
Adding to the ends of words
Questions
Exclamation marks
Singular and plural
Capital letters
Synonyms
Collectingwords
Checking up on punc
Answers