Basic Skills

by Andrew Parker and Jane Stamford

Published June 1986

Basic Skills is a series of graded activity books reinforcing key aspects of literacy such as vocabulary, dictionary skills, reading comprehension and punctuation. Basic Skills Book 2 covers verbs/plurals/compound words, comprehension, sentence construction, rhyming words and dictionary skills.

Basic Skills Book 5

by Andrew Parker and Jane Stamford

Published 31 March 2000
Basic Skills is a series of graded activity books reinforcing key aspects of literacy such as vocabulary, dictionary skills, reading comprehension and punctuation. This book is suitable for children in Key Stage 1 who are preparing to make the transition to Key Stage 2. Basic Skills Book 5 covers adjectives/adverbs/similes/connectives, collective nouns, cloze text (predicting missing words), direct speech (speech bubbles) and comprehension.