Basic Skills is a series of graded activity books reinforcing key aspects of lit
eracy such as vocabulary, dictionary skills, reading comprehension and punctuati
on. This book is suitable for children in Key Stage 1 who are preparing to make
the transition to Key Stage 2. Basic Skills Book 5 covers adjectives/adverbs/sim
iles/connectives, collective nouns, cloze text (predicting missing words), direc
t speech (speech bubbles) and comprehension.