Book 1

English Book 1

by Derek Newton and David Smith

Published 13 November 1978

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.


Book 2

English Book 2

by Derek Newton and David Smith

Published 8 August 1988

Book 3

English Book 3

by Derek Newton and David Smith

Published 3 December 1997

Book 4

English Book 4

by Derek Newton and David Smith

Published 5 July 1993

Book 5

English Book 5

by Derek Newton and David Smith

Published 18 October 1979

Book 5

Maths

by Derek Newton and David Smith

Published 18 May 1994
The fifth Maths Basic Skills book provides plenty of practice questions to work through to build confidence and improve Maths skills at Key Stage 2. Written by educational experts, Practice in the Basic Skills Maths Book 5 saves time with ready-to-practice questions that comprehensively cover the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division for KS2 Maths. Packed with engaging pictures and clear practice questions, this handy study guide gives a strong foundation in Maths for Key Stage 2. It builds on the Maths skills learnt in Book 4. Content includes: lots of practice in number (4 rules, Roman numerals, number bases, averages), money, fractions, decimal fractions, metric measures, area and perimeter, volume, angles, time, graphs as well as problems.


Mathematics Tests

by David Smith and Derek Newton

Published 14 July 1980