Early Basic Skills 4: Using Digraphs 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
IIn this workbook it is assumed that the child knows all the single sounds and can confidently and smoothly blend many consonants. This book moves on to digraphs - letter combinations where the letters combine to make new sounds (ch, th, or, oo, aw etc).In this workbook chlidren are given the opportunity to:learn to recognise and use all the most common digraphshone their decoding skillsimprove comprehension skillspractise handwritingclassify and sort wordsimprove their vocabulary andincrease their sight word vocabulary through a variety of activities.These activities include:writing missing lettersmatching word to picturetracing over wordsdrawing pictures to demonstrate comprehension of textselecting correct wordsanswering yes or no, or selecting true or false to demonstrate comprehension of textmatching words to word shapesbuilding new words andWho am ISometimes children will need help with the instructions, reading more difficult sentences and comprehending words that are new to them.
