Word Workers Book 2

Book excerpt: BOOKS IN SERIES: 9 BOOKS IN READING F REEDOM 2000 PROGRAM: 24 ISBN: 978174020 0608 AUTHOR: Hunter Calder RRP: $15.95 PAGES: 116 pp. The Word Wo rkers Activity Books have been written specifically for students at the early to intermediate years of reading acquisition (suggested ages 7-11) . The series is structured to develop, in a sequential manner, basic rea ding skills. Word Workers takes students from the earliest skills of pho nemic awareness to the higher order skills of syllabification and struct ural analysis. In Word Workers Book 2: Single letter-sound corres pondences, students learn to apply phonemic awareness skills to read sim ple three-sound words - 'bat', 'hen', 'lock'. Simple and regularly occur ring consonant digraphs - 'ck', 'll', 'ss' - are introduced. The activit y pages in each unit consolidate the acquisition of these basic reading skills. Blending skills are consolidated and refined as each vowel sound is introduced.