How to use this book
Literacy Basics helps you to help your child practise many important basic skills covered in t 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 The letters ee and oo ˆt^.eeesseeeseeeeeeseeeoeeoeoeeoeoeeeoedeoeeoeeeseeeseeeese*%%
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The letter patterns ee and 00 are two common letter patterns
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(i can the moon
Look and learn
Introduces and explains the target objective Provides an example to illustrate it J Practice \ Underline the ee and oo letter patterns Join up the rhyming words Practice Provides straightforward practice activities based on the target objective 1 hoot | soon tí 2 | moon weed 3 | cool boot —ht book Ss 4 | green week 5 | seed queen 6 | cheek pool ¬_ Challenge Provides activities to extend and challenge Challenge \ — Choose 00 or ee to complete each word tr st t |
Suggested way of using the book @ It is suggested that your child works
systematically through the book @ Try tackling one unit per week
@ Read through and discuss the Look and learn section with your child to make sure the key objective is understood
Enjoy the book!
First published 1999 Reprinted 2000 (twice), 2001
Second edition published 2002
Letts Educational, 414 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5TF Telephone: 020 8996 3333
Fax: 020 8742 8390 E-mail: mail@ lettsed.co.uk Text: © Letts Educational Ltd 1999 Author: Louis Fidge
Series project manager: Nancy Terry Series designer: Ken Vail Graphic Design
Illustrations: Simon Girling & Associates (Sue King)
Cover design: 2idesign w P rout sw t @ Help your child get started on the Practice section
@ After this, your child can start to work fairly independently through the page, but will further support and encouragement @ The answers are supplied at the end of the
for checking each unit on its completion
All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reprog stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or & means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Letts Educatio British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ACIP record for this book is available from the British Libr ISBN 1-84315-075-1
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Make some words (1) Make some words (2) Labels Sentences Missing words Last letters Groups of words Word building Middle letters Capital letters and full stops The letters Il and ss The letters ck
The letters ng and nk Letter blends at the beginning of words Letter blends at the end of words Plurals Sets of words Silly sentences
The letters sh and ch The letters ee and oo
The letters ay and al
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Introduction
Basic literacy in the early years involves /etters, sounds and words The following are some simple, everyday activities that you can do at home, which will help your child’s understanding in these areas
Activities to help with letter formation
These activities will help with your child’s coordination generally: e play threading activities with beads, buttons and laces
e make things with Play Doh e do jigsaw puzzles
e play with construction toys (like Lego) e try any cutting and sticking activities
When helping your child write letter shapes, concentrate on lower case (small)
letters and not capitals Always encourage your child to begin each letter in the correct place and form the letter in the way shown in the book
Activities for teaching letter sounds
e play ‘I Spy’ using the letter sound (e.g ‘buh’ not ‘bee’)
e have fun with sentences and rhymes where all the words begin with the same letter (For example, say tongue twisters like ‘Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers’.)
e@ make some simple postboxes out of cereal packets e label each with a different letter
e cut out pictures of things beginning with different letters and post them in the correct boxes
e have fun with rhyming Think of a short word and encourage your child to think up other words that rhyme with it, for example, sun, bun, fun, run
e read lots of nursery rhymes together
Activities for teaching words
e@ make large name cards for the family, toys, pets, etc Give your child separate copies of them to match with the original set Encourage your child to trace or copy them
e make labels for things in your house, e.g the table, chair, television Stick them on the appropriate object Provide copies of them for matching e@ make, and read together, simple captions under family photos in the
photograph album
e take labels containing names of products from tins and packets when you go shopping
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Back and learn \
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Look and learn \
_ Say these words Listen to the sound of the first letter of each word
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F Look and learn \
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Look and learn \ |
A sentence should make sense Tae run can run I Xi Wes Practice \ Write the words in order Make some sentences
can hop I I can hop
dog A barks
Fish swim can
cat milk A likes
is hot The sun
sun The yellow is
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Missing words
Look and learn \
A sentence should make sense Abarks & Practice \ m
1 You ride a ; 2 You bang “i
3 You swim in the 4 You eata
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peas
Fook and learn \
Say these words Listen to the sound of the last letter of each word
The last letter is the same mug Practice \
Choose the missing letter for each word
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Groups of words
Look and learn \
We sometimes group words together
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Look and learn \
Say these words Listen to the sound of the middle letter of each word The middle letter is the same cap | Practice , \ — Choose the middle letter for each word Challenge \
Write the words uou made above in the correct column
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Capital letters and full stops
Rook and learn \ A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop Practice \ Write these sentences correctly ee * s
the car was red
a frog can hop
my apple is sweet
milk is white
all birds have wings
you kick a ball we like to read we are going home Challenge | \ Match up the beginning and ending of each sentence Write it correctly
1 the lady bakes, football 2 you dig a picture
3 we can play a cake ———~ The lady bakes a cake 4 the boy fell a dog
5 the girl draws q song 6 you sing a hole 7 you pat my hair
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Look and learn \
Trang 17Look and learn \ sock Practice Ya Do these word sums i ttaweke sock 2 pat ck 3 d+e+ck= 4 pte+ck= 5 steak OO UK Fit k= 7 r+o+ck= 8 s+o+ck= q dtrutd ` T1 s+u+ck= Challenge | \ Use the words you made above to complete these sentences — 1 “In Ne Sef When you are not well you feel A hen can A says quack You can a ball A ship has a A is a big stone You a sweet
You your clothes in a case
Mu has a hole in it
Father Christmas carries a
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Lá and nk 1 sing 2 bang 3 gong 4 hung 5 6 7 wink 16
etc aaa Ta ‘a
Many words end in ng and a
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Tại por) arn ‘vo : | 4
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Look and learn \
Say the words slowly Listen to the way each word ends Practice
Make these words
co ee id] |e co | |ĂMBS |u 5ö w
go Đo Id | |go oo tf sư OÐ tk | |gu©lÐ |p me Or lt Challenge
Use the words you made above to complete pice entences 1 We get milk from cows
2 Ice will when it gets hot 3 is a sport ⁄
4 To means to shout in pain _a{
5 is worth a lot of money
6 An is a small person in fairy stories 7 Some people when they are ee Oe 8 A is like a skirt
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Book and learn \
Plural means when there is more than one We add s to many words to make them plural
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one cat lots of cats
_ Practice Ì
_ Write the plurals
wq two cats "GM one ant Sane two
one hen vớ two | cớ Gone bat WY gf two
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Look and learn \
This is a set of insects This is a set of birds | bulges " beetle seagull Practice \ Sort the ering for the party into two sets
oo candwichetl apple juice, crisps, tea,
| pizza, cake, cola, lemonade,
orange squash, sausages - Challenge Nias
_ Circle the odd thing out in each set
| 1 cup mug (bike) 2.table chair bird
| 3 car book bus 4.mat rabbit mouse | 5 door pencil pen 6 apple bed banana | 7 sun moon tree 8 box hat coat
% arm-——tleg lorry 10 sea flower grass
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S¡U sentences _Look and learn \ Challenge \
3 Write each sentence correctly
1 A bee lives in a shell A dog lives in a web A horse lives in a hive
A spider lives in a pond
A bird lives in a burrow A duck lives in a kennel A rabbit lives in a nest
A snail lives in a stable 2 3 4 5, ó 7 8
Sentences should make sense
The television is watching the girl
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We get cows from milk The egg is eating the man The ball kicked the bou The web made a spider
The tree had a garden in it
The chair fell over the lady
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You will find sh and ch in many words chest Practice Make some words @© ị Xụ I a ag sh_ip ut ed op ell ship _ ae ef A oest Challenge
Find the sh and ch words albkeTh] i] 7 Og
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Look and learn
sodibNEEIEILEBESE- S4 ogi Bhs (ÂU
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The letters ay often come The letters ai often come
at the end of a word in the middle of a word Practice \ Make some words S Say d ——— pain us afr d pain Challenge \ Use the words you made above to complete these sentences 1 It is a sunny day 2 Tom had a in his tooth 3 I think it is going to
4 My friend came to for the weekend Đa
5 Can you what I can do?
6 I had to for a bus to come
7 Do you like to football?
8 Which is it to school?
9 Mr James put up a curtain
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Look and learn \
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Leok and lear \
Whenever we write someone’s name we should
always start it with a cecil letter œ Ỷ TẢ Me Ỷ 3 My name is Little Bo Peep My name is Humpty Dumptu nadeen olivia warren Challenge \
1 Write your name
2 Write the names of two friends
3 Write the name of an uncle or an aunt 4 Write the name of your teacher
5 Write the name of your doctor
6 Write the name of someone famous
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The endings ed Te MCN:
Look and learn \
We can add the endings ing and ed to some words ` “FLA _ h 1 Py : re ‘n>
Trang 30Questions Look and learn \ A question must begin with a capital letter and end with a question mark Practice lo
Write these questions correctly ' ah a
where do you live Where do you live?
what is your name ON AMR WN = What is for dinner? how old are you when is your birthday
where are you going
what is the matter
who are you with what has happened Challenge \ Here are some answers Write what uou think the questions were 1 2 3 4 2 6 a 8 Who is your teacher? My teacher is Miss Jones My brother is ten My sister is called Sarah I am seven
I go to Park Farm School My favourite colour is red I like Art best at school
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Look and learn \
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Look and learn \
Say the words Notice what happens when we add e have a cap and a cape ) : cap — cape Practice \
Make some new words
1 kit+e= kite 2 mat +e =
3 rip +e= 4 gap +e =
5 rob+e= 6 cut t+e=
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Munday X! Monday 1 Febuary |X| February
It is important to know how to spell the names of days and months Practice \ Write the days of the week correctly in the right order Tuesday Friday Sunday Saturday Wednesday Monday Thursday rs => ==x Challenge \
Write the names of the
Here is a rhyme to help you
months correctly in order remember how many daus
there are in each month
a6 © Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November
All the rest have thirty-one,
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Look and learn \ | ees) as
Sometimes rhyming words have Sometimes rhyming words have
Trang 35swers 3 €Í.LLm, n, p, q, t, W, X, U FGKLM,N,P,S,T,U,V,Y 1.e.h,Lo,r,u tw.y mqsw sun hen/hat, log/lid, mug/mop, sad/sun horse 8, hen 3
check the labels are correct
answers may vary
6 bird, 7 cow, 8 frog answers may vary
answers may vary 11 7 pen 8 rag, 9 pup, 10 bin 12 13
sweet 4 Milk is white
Shave wings 6 You kick a ball
toread 8 We are going home
my hair
mug, sad, hen, log, pin, lid, pan,
cat, pen, tin, cot, bun, pot, run, mat, cat/mat, pen/hen, tin/bin, cot/pot,
bat 6, bee 4, cat 1, cow 7, dog 2,
2 Adog barks 3 Fish can swim mt tkes milk 5 The sunis hot 6 The ow 7 Theskyis blue 8 I can read
1_ bike, 2 drum, 3 sea, 4 cake,
wan, hut, log, bed, zip, peg, top, bun,
van/bun, zip/top, log/peg, hut/rat, fruit: apple, orange, banana, grapes; ss: carrot, cabbage, potato, onion
bag, hen, pin, log, cup, rag, pen, bin,
2 bag, 3 log, 4 cup, 5 hen,
web, log, map, nut, bib, can, sit, tub, words: map, can; e words: web,
sas- bib, sit; o words: log; u words: nut,
1 The car was red 2 A frog can hop
ahole 3 We can play football fell off the wall 5 The girl draws a 6 Yousing asong 7 You pat a dog
Page 14
Practice: till, pill, fill, mill, will; boss, loss, moss, toss, cross
Challenge: all words: ball, wall, hall, call; ell words: yell, tell, bell, well; ess words: less, mess; iss words: miss, hiss
Page 15
Practice: 2 pack, 3 deck, 4 peck, 5 sick, 6 kick, 7 rock, 8 sock, 9 duck, 10 suck Challenge: 1 sick, 2 peck, 3 duck, 4 kick, 5 deck, 6 rock, 7 suck, 8 pack, 9 sock, 10 sack
Page 16
Practice: 2 bang/gang, 3 gong/song,
4 hung/rung, 5 bank/tank, 6 wink/pink, 7 bunk/sunk
Challenge: wing, yank, hang, link, rang, bunk, long, hunk, bung
Page 17
Practice: slap/slip, flag/flick, clock/cling,
blot/black, glad/glass
Challenge: 2 cling, 3 blot, 4 glass, 5 slap,
6 flick, 7 clock, 8 glad, 9 black, 10 slip Page 18
Practice: cold, elf, milk, yelp, gold, golf, sulk, gulp, mele, kilt
Challenge: 2 melt, 3 golf, 4 yelp, 5 gold,
6 elf, 7 sulk, 8 kilt, 9 gulp, 10 cold
Page 19
Practice: cats, ants, dogs, birds, hens, bats,
rats, frogs
Challenge: 2 seven spots, 3 five spots, 4 eight
spots, 5 nine spots, 6 two spots, 7 one spot,
8 ten spots, 9 four spots, 10 six spots
Page 20
Practice: food: sandwiches, cake, crisps,
sausages, pizza; drinks: apple juice, cola, lemonade, orange squash, tea
Challenge: 2 bird, 3 book, 4 mat, 5 door, 6 bed, 7 tree, 8 box, 9 lorry, 10 sea
Page 21
Practice: cows/milk; eqg/man; ball/boy;
web/spider; tree/garden; chair/lady; tail/cat
Challenge: 2 A dog lives in a kennel 3 Ahorse lives ina stable 4 A spider lives ina web 5.A bird lives in anest 6 A duck lives in apond 7 A rabbit lives in a burrow
8 A snail lives in a shell Page 22
Practice: ship, shut, shed, shop, shell, chick, chat, chin, chip, chest
Challenge: sh words: shut, shin, shelf, shock, sheep; ch words: chill, check, chop, cheese, church
Page 23
Practice: 2 moon/soon, 3 cool/pool, 4 green/queen, 5 seed/weed, 6 cheek/week, Challenge: zoo, tree, stool, broom, feet, weep, roof, sweet, sleep, spoon Page 24
Practice: ay: say, day, way, stay, play;
ai: pain, rail, afraid, wait, rain
Challenge: 2 pain, 3 rain, 4 stay, 5 say,
6 wait, 7 play, 8 way, 9 rail, 10 afraid Page 25
Practice: a, e, i, 0, u
Challenge: sun, cat, shop, pen, till, web, fish,
bus, clock, bag
Page 26
Practice: Ben, Yasmin, Lewis, Zoe, Nadeen,
Grace, Mark, Waka, Olivia, Warren
Challenge: answers may vary Page 27
Practice: ing: talking, washing, shouting, kicking, jumping, looking, lifting, rocking;
ed: talked, washed, shouted, kicked, jumped, looked, lifted, rocked
Challenge: 2 fill, 3 call, 4 eat, 5 sing, 6 lick, 7 cook, 8 catch, 9 stay, 10 pack, 11 open, 12 draw
Page 28
Practice: 2 What is your name? 3 How old are you? 4 When is your birthday? 5 Where are you going? 6 What is the matter? 7 Who
are you with? 8 What has happened?
Challenge: 2 How old is your brother? 3 What is your sister called? 4 How old are you? 5 What school do you go to? 6 What is
your favourite colour? 7 What is your
favourite subject? 8 What do you do after school?
Page 29
Practice: 2 leap/heap, 3 boat/coat, 4 neat/beat, 5 mean/clean, 6 soak/cloak, Challenge: sea, goat, seat, loaf, beak, soap, tea, coach, read, toast
Page 30
Practice: 2 mate, 3 ripe, 4 gape, 5 robe, 6 cute, 7 note, 8 tube, 9 pine, 10 made, 11 hope, 12 cube
Challenge: tap, ride, mop, mat, pipe, cube,
wine, tub, shine, gap
Page 31
Practice: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Challenge: 2 February, 3 March, 4 April,
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Every day in primary school your child will take part in the Literacy Hour, enjoying the activities and tasks set out in the National Literacy Strategy Now
ENGLISH BASICS helps you strengthen your child’s reading and writing
skills at home The fun activities on every page of ENGLISH BASICS follow the actual subjects of the Literacy Hour week by week, topic by topic, for unrivalled preparation and practice
ENGLISH BASICS brings you:
* Activities specially written for the primary curriculum * Up-to-date information on the latest changes in education * Lively and colourful design for easy learning
* Suggestions for more activities to enjoy at home
Louis Fidge, author of the ENGLISH BASICS series, is an expert on primary education and a best-selling children’s author
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