WITH WORD CARDS FOR SPELLING GAMES — : @ LadybirdThis book contains enjoyable and interesting activities to give children extra practice in written and spoken language. Working Together Although your child is already able to read and write, it is still helpful, and much more fun, if you go through the book together. Talk about the instructions before the child begins. Provide extra paper so that he or she can repeat the exercise using different examples. One way of making sure that a child has understood the work is to ask him or her to set a similar exercise for you and then mark it. Spelling Many of the activities are to help with spelling. One of the best ways of practising is called LOOK-SAY-COVER-WRITE- CHECK. The child looks carefully at the word and says it aloud. Then he or she covers up the word and writes it. Finally the word is checked. Use this method for any words that your child finds difficult. Remember that although English skills are very, very important, playing with language can be great fun, too! NRA . oy 8 . PLEASE NOTE THAT IDEAS 2. FOR THE GAMES ON THE CENTRE CARD ARE GIVEN AT THE BACK OF THIS BOOK. seam tenner— L TA Address || ——— | | | | | | _ Eye colour. | | Name Hair colour. Height___ I Age —____ ——| Weight | a - . LLJ ° designed and meee by Claire James B oe. oe Lodybird Books & & ACheck that you know your alphabet. Join the dots in alphabetical order to complete the picture below. y IS ALBABED Libraries and bookshops often arrange their books by putting the . authors’ second names in alphabetical order. Put these books in order. A Guide to Houseplants by \vy Leaf Waterfalls of the World by C. Rivers [= 26 The Great Escape by Digger Tunnel =| Beginning Astronomy by |. C. Stars Going Camping by |vor Tent Making Cakes by R. U. Hungry leopardNOUNS cms e Proper nouns are Simon Claire names of people: Paris France names of places: - days of the week: Monday Friday months of the year: February June. 4 Underline the proper nouns in this rhyme. Thirty days have September, April, June and November. || All the rest have thirty one, | = except February alone, which has twenty eight days clear and twenty nine in each leap year. lane Town where” | [you were born... *) a SSF 1 Common nouns have a capital letter only at the CD » ~ beginning of a sentence. hos Things | use Things | use the kitchen in the garden Your name... Peon eo, = i whisk watering can saucepan lawn mower:A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop. The capital letters and full stops help to make sense of a piece of writing. Sentences make sense. Write each of these sentences underneath the correct picture. Plant cress seeds on top. Fill it with damp soil. Draw a face on a clean empty eggshell. The cress will soon grow. ° @ The capital letters and full stops are missing from this piece. Can you put them in? Did you find 5 sentences?We need nouns, adjectives and verbs in our speech and writing. aK Remember CFind themin >, 22 R — nouns name things. £ the word — adjectives describe things. ‘yt. —verbs do things. oN S\ Tose Nouns > e€ planet \ ie k € monster astronaut Adjectives cold fast windy green ag eZ Nerbs SB can chased S escaped flew mpo[n Use these words to complete this story. It was the year 3000 and my a. and | f____ to a distant p. in myrt. It was ac. and w. planet. Ag m. saw us and c. us. We r___as f. as we could and e____ to our rocket. The monster ran faster than us. He said he only wanted to say hello!atall gir ataller girl 4 2 girl Write the missing adjective under reach picture. high wall ri alow table Look at these racing cars. Choose the correct adjective to complete the santance®- lower Number 1 was the Number 3 was ______ than 7 and 4. Numbers 4 and 7 were ______ than 3 and 1. Number 4 was the In these words the y changes to i. dirty dirtier cheeky \ovely o dirtiestThis boy saw a bank robbery. The detective asked a lot of questions. What do you think he asked? Draw a picture of the robber. Qa A He was very tall. Qa A He was wearing a black coat | and a black mask. Q A He had yellow trainers.‘the word. the word. A Book __B f fork _ @°~" _ Use the words to finish these sentences. at the word. the word. the word. Try these: