The English Workbook – Book D focuses on 5 main writing genres:

• Procedure
• Recount
• Exposition (Persuasive)
• Narratives
• Reports

All aspects of English Literacy are thoroughly dealt with throughout this book:

• Oral language
• Reading
• Comprehension
• Spelling
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Writing

There are 10 units of work in the book and each unit deals with 11 main elements:

• Reading passages written in one of the five writing genre.
• Speaking and listening activities based on the genre. Focusing on activities for the whole class and activities for working in pairs.
• Analysis of the structure of the writing genre.
• Reading activities focus on developing comprehension at 3 different levels: reading for information, reading for understanding and application of understanding.
• Vocabulary activities focus on extending word meaning, word building and activities include dictionary work, antonyms/synonyms, alphabetical order, anagrams, word searches, crosswords and word worms.
• Grammar activities which focus on parts of speech or punctuation.
• Spelling pages focus on specific spelling rules e.g. plurals.
• Writing Framework/Template to guide the children in perfecting the specific genre. This allows the children to be creative and imaginative while still providing the children with a structure needed to enable them write in a genre.
• Writing activities.
• Editing and Proofreading activities.
• Two page assessment of the entire unit.

Teachers Resource Book available and is provided free when a school adopts the programme.

Code: 6279 | ISBN: 9781846546426