Early Basic Skills 2: Simple Words & Sentences is the first in a series of five in the Early Basic Skills series using Queensland handwriting font for children aged 4 to 7:
 
Early Basic Skills: Single Sounds
Early Basic Skills: Simple Words & Sentences
Early Basic Skills: Blending Consonants
Early Basic Skills: Using Digraphs
Early Basic Skills: Written Text: Punctuation and Grammar
 
In this workbook, it is assumed that the child has already met all of the single sounds and is now ready to consolidate that knowledge by working with single sounds. This book uses many three letter single sound words (cat, dog) as well as many four letter single sound words (hill, duck, pram).
In this workbook, children are given the opportunity to:
 
hone their decoding skills
improve comprehension skills
practise handwriting and
increase their sight vocabulary through a variety of activities
These activities include:
writing missing letters
matching word to picture
tracing over words
copying and creating sentences
drawing pictures to demonstrate comprehension of text
selecting correct words
answering yes or no, or selecting true or false to demonstrate understanding of text
matching words to word shapes
building new words
reading and using rhyming words
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