english basics for ages 5 6 key stage 1

@ Read through and discuss the Look and learn section with your child to make sure the key objective is understood.. Make some words 1 Make some words 2 The letters ng and nk Letter

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

Provides an example to illustrate it

on the target objective

Challenge Provides activities to extend and challenge

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

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Make some words (1)

Make some words (2)

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

Vowels and consonants

Ways to help your child at home

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

e look out for the same names in the supermarket Encourage your child to help

‘write’ your shopping list with you.

The alphabet

Back and learn \

All words are made up of letters

There are 26 letters in the alphabet

Make some words (1)

Look and learn \

_ Say these words Listen to the sound of the first letter of each word

Make some words (2)

F Look and learn \

Look and learn \

Many pictures have labels to help you

ear

eye nose

Look and learn \ |

A sentence should make sense

Write the words in order Make some sentences

dog A barks

Fish swim can

sun The yellow is

sky The blue is

Missing words

Look and learn \

A sentence should make sense

2 5.A hisses 6.A sings

7.A moos 8.A hops

| ast letters

peas

Fook and learn \

Say these words Listen to the sound of the last letter of each word

The last letter is the same

Choose the missing letter for each word

n t || b tig p jin d jig p

Groups of words

Look and learn \

We sometimes group words together

10

Look and learn \

Say these words Listen to the sound of the middle letter of each

word The middle letter is the same

Challenge \

Write the words uou made above in the correct column

eves | events | toed [oes | ww |

Capital letters and full stops

Rook and learn \

my apple is sweet

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

8 Ibrush off the wdll

The letters ll and ss

Look and learn \

14

etc aaa Ta ‘a

Many words end in ng and a

The king can wink

Practice -

bank bunk

Challenge |

rung king —> sing — king

Letter blends at the ete: me of words

Tại por) arn ‘vo : | 4

Say the words slowly eR to the way each ward begins

Letter blends at the end of words

Look and learn \

Say the words slowly Listen to the way each word ends

Make these words

co ee id] |e co | |ĂMBS |u 5ö w

go Đo Id | |go oo tf sư OÐ tk | |gu©lÐ |p

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

9 You a drink

10 The opposite of hot is

Plurals

Book and learn \

Plural means when there is more than one

We add s to many words to make them plural

‹

_ Write the plurals

wq two cats "GM one ant Sane two

one hen vớ two | cớ Gone bat WY gf two

: Challenge \

_ Count the spots

19

Look and learn \

This is a set of insects This is a set of birds |

oo candwichetl apple juice, crisps, tea,

| pizza, cake, cola, lemonade,

_ 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

20

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

Sentences should make sense

The television is watching the girl

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

The tail had a cat

Look and learn

You will find sh and ch in many words

_ ae ef A oest

Challenge

Rofl ith ett ut Lịm| sihiLtinipiaq : Cini ere kiri sit chill u|v|w|x|c|h|olIp

Look and learn

sodibNEEIEILEBESE- S4 ogi Bhs (ÂU

The letter patterns ee and 00 are two common letter patterns

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Practice

Underline the ee and oo letter patterns Join up the rhyming words

6 I had to for a bus to come

9 Mr James put up a curtain

Vowels and consonants

Look and learn \

There are 26 letters in the alphabet The five vowels are a, e, i, 0

and u All the other letters are called consonants

Names

Leok and lear \

Whenever we write someone’s name we should

always start it with a cecil letter

3 Write the name of an uncle or an aunt

4 Write the name of your teacher

6 Write the name of someone famous

26

Look and learn \

We can add the endings ing and ed to some words

Lam walking to the shops Yesterday I walked to school

walk + ing = walking walk + ed = walked

1 raining rain 2 filled

where do you live Where do you live?

what is your name

when is your birthday

where are you going

what has happened

I go to Park Farm School

My favourite colour is red

I like Art best at school

I play with my friend after school

The letters ea and oa

Look and learn \

The two letter patterns ea and oa are common

Look and learn \

Say the words Notice what happens when we add e

Make some new words

3 rip +e= 4 gap +e =

30

Munday X! Monday 1 Febuary |X| February

It is important to know how to spell the names of days and months

Write the days of the week correctly in the right order

Tuesday Friday Sunday Saturday Wednesday Monday Thursday

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,

Except for February alone,

Which has 28 days clear,

And 29 in each leap year

Rhyming

Look and learn \ | ees) as

Sometimes rhyming words have Sometimes rhyming words have

the same letter patterns different letter patterns

check the labels are correct

answers may vary

6 bird, 7 cow, 8 frog

answers may vary

answers may vary

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,

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

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,

5 May, 6 June, 7 July, 8 August,

9, September, 10 October, 11 November

Page 32 Practice: bite/white, by/try, lie/die, fly/cry,

high/sigh, fine/mine

Challenge: pie/sky, ride/tied, fight/white,

climb/slime, fire/higher