Early Basic Skills 4: Using Digraphs using Victorian font (No. 369)

This book is the fourth in a series of five in the Early Basic Skills series using Victorian handwriting font for children aged 4 to 7:

• #366 Early Basic Skills: Single Sounds
• #367 Early Basic Skills: Simple Words & Sentences
• #368 Early Basic Skills: Blending Consonants
• #369 Early Basic Skills: Using Digraphs
• #370 Early Basic Skills: Written Text: Punctuation and Grammar

In this workbook it is assumed that the child knows all the single sounds and can confidently and smoothly blend many consonants. This bookmoves on to digraphs – letter combinations where the letters combine tomake 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 digraphs
• hone their decoding skills
• improve comprehension skills
• practise handwriting
• classify and sort words
• improve their vocabulary and
• increase their sight word vocabulary through a variety of activities.

These activities include:

• writing missing letters
• matching word to picture
• tracing over words
• drawing pictures to demonstrate comprehension of text
• selecting correct words
• answering yes or no, or selecting true or false to demonstrate comprehension of text
• matching words to word shapes
• building new words and
• Who am I

Sometimes children will need help with the instructions, reading moredifficult sentences and comprehending words that are new to them.