This book includes fun activities, games and write-in word puzzles with 140 lively photographs. It is a playbook to build literacy for 3-7 year olds, including word recognition, listening and speaking skills, reading and writing. It provide hours of entertainment for children to enjoy, either on their own or with friends. Exciting activities supplement schoolwork and help little ones to perfect essential literacy skills. It includes progress charts, certificates, puzzles, games and exercises. Guidance notes give grown-ups advice on getting the most from the book. More than 40 bright, lively action pictures of kids at work and at play make learning fun. In the early years of school, seeing, doing, listening and talking are all part of the enjoyment of growing up. This lively activity workbook can help your child in this process. The book is divided into four strands of literacy - speaking skills, learning to listen, ready for reading, and learning to write. Bursting with bright and engaging photographs and fun activities, supplemented by a progress checklist and certificates of achievement, this book will help you and your child to enjoy the enriching journey into literacy.