Once your child is familiar with letters of the alphabet and matched them to their sounds, they can start putting sounds together into words. Book 8 started your child reading and writing whole words, and Book 9 c ontinues with further activities.

In Excel English Early Skills: Reading with Sounds (2), your child will:

• practise blending simple single-letter sounds into meaningful words
• lea rn to choose the correct word from a list of words with the same endings and patterns
• write whole words for pictures

The activities in each book are divided into double pages. Each double page allows your child to practise one particular skill many times so that th e skill is reinforced. This book has a clear, easy-to-follow page design with clear explanations to help both parents and children.