8545 New wave English skills practice teachers guide Lower

Introduction
Daily practice sessions ensure children consolidate a wide range of English skills and concepts. They are able
to recall information quickly and easily for use in more lengthy English activities.
The New wave English skills practice series of workbooks is built on repeated practice of already-taught
concepts and skills. Teachers should ensure that children have been exposed to all concepts covered in each
daily activity before allowing them to commence the questions. (To ensure this has happened, teachers should
refer to the overviews for each week.) Where constant errors occur, New wave English skills practice enables
teachers and children to identify difficulties and gaps in learning to inform future teaching and learning
activities.
New wave English skills practice provides a valuable resource to extend children who already have a sound
knowledge of English concepts. Children can challenge themselves to better each daily score, or complete
activities more quickly and accurately.
New wave English skills practice is a comprehensive program that covers most areas of English—spelling,
grammar, word study and punctuation.
A friendly witch character is used throughout the New wave English skills practice series to align with the
wizard character used in our complementary New wave mental maths series. The easy-to-identify character
appears on the cover of each workbook and features occasionally throughout the workbooks to introduce new
skills, demonstrate concepts and provide important reminders.
How the children use the workbooks
Each workbook contains 160 days of questions which are grouped in days of five. A skill focus is provided at
the start of the week to support children with the revision of skills that will follow. Only a selection of the more
challenging punctuation, word study and grammar concepts that are covered in the workbooks have a skill
focus section. There are many other English skills that are introduced over the course of the workbooks, so it
is recommended that teachers view the week overview and look though the week of questions to ensure that
children understand all the skills that are covered in a given week.
WEEK 13
Skill focus
Other words for people and things
Read the picture story.
Mum baked a cake. She dropped it on the floor.
Dad ate the cake. He won’t eat it again.
In the story, the naming words in the first
pictures were changed to different words
in the second pictures:
Mum ➞ She Dad ➞ He
These are known as pronouns. There are
lots of other words that can take the place
of naming words:
I me it him her
Practice questions
1. Which word can be used
instead of Mum?
She He
Day 1
Mum is going for a walk.
2. Change the middle sound
to i to make a new word.
pet
3. Tick the correct sentence:
I do not know where my
hat is.
I nowe where it is.
4. Which word needs a capital
letter?
I love to sleep in on saturdays.
5. Circle the word that ends with
ay like day.
lady play happy your
kicked the
ball. The man shouted
6. The opposite of last is:
at .
second first
7. Circle the answer.
fell off his
Where is the cream?
bike. A friend helped
I put cream on my hot
chocolate.
.
8. Read the sentence.
Tick true or false.
was a
juicy bone. The dog
true false
buried . Lions love to eat carrots. MY SCORE
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1. Change ai in pain to i to
make a new word.
pain
Day 5
2. Circle the mistake.
I got dirt in my iye.
3. Add ed to end to make a
new word.
4. Circle the word with ou in the
middle like loud and foul.
go school shout clown
5. Fill in Who or Why.
are you laughing?
6. Write the first word correctly.
where is your house?
7. Read the sentence.
Tick true or false.
true false
My mum has
superpowers.
8. Circle the noun
(naming word).
The sky is blue.
Skill focus review
1. How many sounds in rug?
r-u-g
• • •
2. What letter is missing? Write
as a capital and lower-case
letter.
p q s t
3. Add a capital letter and
full stop.
he was at home
4. Circle the word that needs a
capital letter.
My dad’s name is ben.
5. Look at the picture.
Read the sentence.
Tick true or false.
true false
The ball is in the basket.
6. him or her?
I told my mum that I love
.
7. Circle the question word.
Where are you?
8. Circle the adjective
(describing word).
I sleep on a soft pillow.
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