The first English Basic Skills book provides plenty of practice questions to work through to build confidence and improve English skills at Key Stage 2. Written by educational experts, Practice in the Basic Skills English Book 1 saves time with ready-to-practice questions that comprehensively cover the basics of reading, writing, comprehension, grammar and spelling for KS2 English. Packed with engaging pictures and clear practice questions it provides a strong foundation in English for Key Stage 2. Content includes: initial, middle and final sounds, plurals, nouns, verbs (present tense), short vowels, long vowels (oo), ch, double consonants, consonant blends, vocabulary building, as well as colours, opposites, is/are, was/were, a/an, rhymes and word puzzles.

 

This is book 5 in Practice in the Basic Skills .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers .

David Smith has been writing history books for adults and children for over thirty years. He has recently written an educational series on the Holocaust and several books on different aspects of the contemporary Middle East. He is also a novelist.