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Our Ant Books Workbooks have been designed by teachers for teachers and are ideal for both class and home use.

Great for children aged 6 to 16! The aim? To build excellence in English through bolstering all the basics. And, what’s more, our workbooks are photocopiable! See our Order Form for a comprehensive list of all our Workbooks.

We cover all aspects of English:

1. Pre-school material

We have a growing range of material for the pre-school child: workbooks on shape, number, colour, size…to develop finer motor-coordination as well as the concepts they will need in grade 1.  Titles include Handwriting, Let’s Colour, Pre-Grade 1, Number, etc.  (For more detail, see our link at the top of this page.)

2.  Basic Words- workbook and flashcards

These are the 300 words most commonly used by primary school children.  Learn these off by heart (sight words) and practise writing them out, and you will be able to read almost anything in the primary school.  A vital part of every reading programme.

3.  Vocabulary-building and B/D Confusion

The Vocabulary-building workbooks are aimed at the second-language learner who is in the senior primary (or from grade 3 upwards), but who still lacks English vocabulary.  Plenty of practise is provided, using high-frequency words.

B/D Confusion is for the children who confuse the letters b and d – use in grade 3 or 4.  (A note of advice here: teach cursive writing, and your children will not confuse these letters again, as they are too dissimilar in cursive to be confused.)

4.  Comprehension and Cloze Procedure

We have formal comprehension books, with a reading passage and questions to follow.  We also include questions on pictures, adverts, recipes, poems, etc.

Cloze Procedure is a wonderful alternative to the formal comprehension.  A passage is provided with words left out on a regular basis.  Using contextual clues, children are required to fill in an appropriate word so that the passage makes sense.

5.  Phonics and Spelling

Phonics is a vital part of learning a language, and English does have a strong phonetic base: children need to know their sounds in order to read (a method of ‘word attack’) and spell.  With ANT BOOKS, phonics can be learnt – and practised – high into the senior primary school. (See PUNOS, our famous Phonics Game!  Link at the top of this page.)

Spelling is more difficult to teach than reading – but by teaching spelling, you will also be teaching reading, so it has a dual benefit!  We now have a formal spelling programme for the senior primary – 4 workbooks that follow one after the other.  Each tackles spelling from 3 points: rules, phonics and high-frequency words, and also includes unusally-spelt words and homophones.

6.  Language, Punctuation and Parts of Speech

Our language series starts with the basic sentence – plenty of practise at transcription, with basic words – and leads on to formal English grammar.

The Punctuation series begins with the grade 3 child and continues through the primary school, carefully building each layer upon the one before and covering all aspects of punctuation and its usgage.

Parts of Speech (at present, just for Grades 3 and 4), cover the formal aspects of Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives.

7.  Word Skills and English Busywork

Our Word Skills remain one of the favourites!  Chidlren are required to do different things high-frequency words – so this can form part of your comprehension, too (following written instructions).  At the same time, children are learning to ‘play’ with our English words: plurals, prefixes and suffixes, antonyms, homophones etc are all covered.

English Busywork starts at grade 3 (or an advanced grade 2), and each page contains many different aspects of English: reading, comprehension, language, spelling, reading skills, etc.  It makes a great ‘general English’ workbook and is the one I recommend to parents most often.

8.  Creative Writing and Written Expression

Our two creative writing books give parents and teachers hundreds of ideas for creative writing – not just the boring story!  Written Expression is a more formal look at writing, with ideas and notes on diary entries, book reviews, paragraphs, dialogues, scripts, poems, narrative and descriptive essays, etc, and also with many ideas to get one started.

NEW MATERIAL!

Reading Skills

These deceptively-simple looking A5 workbooks can be called ‘read, write and draw’: first the children read the short written description, then they write it neatly (to practise their handwriting), then they have to draw it exactly.  This requires the constant ‘checking’ of the written piece, which of course develops the skills of skimming and scanning for information.  Start at grade 1 and use Book 3 right up to grades 4 and 5.  The children will love the drawing, without realising the educational advantage!

My Weekly Blog

A brilliant way of teaching grammar in an informal way!  Each week the children are required to write about ‘my weekend’ – but in a very restricted, guided manner.  Each time a different aspect of English is explored – punctuation, grammar, etc.  Full lesson plans provided.

ENGLISH READER PROGRAMME

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