The development of reading skills

the long version

This book is intended to provide guidance about ways of meeting the diverse needs of each child, teacher, school and locality. Part 1 contains suggestions for activities which will develop pre-reading and reading skills. Part 2 contains word lists, each illustrating a specific word-sound. Visual discrimination. Auditory discrimination. Hand/eye co-ordination. Letter shapes. Letter sounds. Simple words and sounds. About myself. Signs, patterns and pictures. Puzzles and codes. General activities. Games. Word lists : consonants, vowels, simple doubled consonant word-endings, consonant digraphs, blends, vowel digraphs, further doubled consonants, digraphs, silent letters, prefixes, common word-endings, additional groups.