Getting Ready: Reading Skills 1A, 1B, 2A and 2B

Title: Getting Ready: Reading Skills 1A ISBN: 981 4107 07 7   Title: Getting Ready: Reading Skills 1B ISBN: 981 4107 08 5   Title: Getting Ready: Reading Skills 2A ISBN: 981 4107 09 3   Title: Getting Ready: Reading Skills 2B ISBN: 981 4107 10 7   Published Price: 1A - 2B - 650 yen

About the Book
This is a series of four books which takes the young reader from the pre-school stage to the first year of formal school. Each book in the series contains a wide range of activities designed to develop basic reading skills, especially in the areas of competency as discrimination (visual followed by auditory), ordering (including alphabetical ordering), directionality, comprehension, conceptualization and word recognition, including vocabulary development.

Features
• develop a curiosity about words, how they sound, the patterns within words and how they are composed
• develop an awareness of letter names and sounds and, thus, to recognize familiar words and letters
• explore and experiment with sounds, words and texts
• extend their vocabulary
• read a range of familiar, and common, words and simple sentences independently
• begin to gain an understanding of how information can be found in both fiction and nonfiction texts