Basic Practising Skills in English

<p><em>Basic Practising Skills in English: With Worksheets and Exercises </em>is intended for primary school learners. Each of its ten chapters features a reading passage a new word reading list a list of unfamiliar phrases a listen and talk activity a free writing or creative exercise and a comprehension writing exercise.</p><ul> <li>The reading passages provide practice in reading skills such as fluency clarity articulation pronunciation and fast reading pace.</li> <li>The new word section helps students read and spell words gain word familiarisation word meanings and word use in sentences.</li> <li>Unfamiliar phrases show how to deduce meanings of phrases as used in a passage or in full sentences.</li> <li>Listen and talk activity offers practice in listening and talking skills turn taking being attentive oral comprehension and use of non-verbal cues.</li> <li>Creative writing/composition writing exercises deliver practice in free form writing creative or critical thinking and in composing coherent sentences.</li> <li>Comprehension writing exercises test reading memory comprehension and writing skills in response to questions within a passage.</li></ul><p>Kundisai Mudita taught at primary schools in Zimbabwe Africa before becoming an assistant lecturer at Great Zimbabwe University in 2009. She is currently a full-time lecturer at the Great Zimbabwe University Department of Special Needs Education. This is her fifth published book.</p><p> </p>