The Basic Reading Skills series aims to help primary-aged children wi th reading and comprehension using short pieces of writing. Each page co mprises a self-contained, one-page exercise, ensuring children only need to focus on one simple activity at a time. In today's world, most child ren probably read less than their parents or grandparents did at the sam e age. Distractions such as television and video games take up many hour s that could be spent in reading. To excel in reading requires plenty of practice.

In this book your child will find:

• over 6 0 pages of reading exercises to help practise and develop reading and co mprehension
• one-page activities with easy-to-follow questions
• a range of tasks covering different skills in reading
• p ractice in understanding texts, predicting words, working with anagrams and sorting words into groups