An English Course:

Fitzroy Word Skills 1

Reading, Spelling,
Comprehension and Grammar

Vocabulary drawn from Fitzroy Readers 1 to 10

To help with quick correction, ANSWER BOOKS for all levels of

the Fitzroy Word Skills are available from the publisher.

The
FITZROY WORD SKILLS
contain 580 work sheets in 8 books.
1 – 1X – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6A – 6B

This series covers primary literacy.

The first book (#1) caters for beginner readers.
The last books (#6A & #6B) provide a high
standard for junior secondary schooling.
The difficulty level for each activity is guided by the strictly
controlled vocabulary of the Fitzroy Reader of the same number.
 THIS CHART SUGGESTS THE ORDER IN WHICH
YOU MAKE USE of the FITZROY MATERIALS:
First Steps: Fitzroy Sounds and The Alphabet Book (pre-reading)
Packs of Fitzroy Extra Fitzroy Fitzroy
Fitzroy Word Spelling Talking Audio
Readers Skills Aids Readers CD
1st 1-10 1-10 Alphabetics 1-10 1-10
2nd 1x-10x 1x-10x Card 1x-10x 1x-10x
3rd 11-20 11-20 Games 11-20 11-20
4th 21-30 21-30 Word 21-30 21-30
5th 31-40 31-40 Families Alpha- 31-40
6th 41-50 41-50 Volumes betics 41-50
7th 51-60 51-55 A, B Word 51-55
8th 51-60 56-60 &C Game 56-60

Dear Printer,

The above is PAGE ii of all ANSWER BOOKS

This is already roughly life-size.

(landscape layout)
Dear Currency The Fitzroy Readers Story Titles
1 A Fat Cat 26 Eight Frogs & Snake
The Artwork on the right is for 2 A Big Pig 27 Tabitha and Thug
3 Bug on a Rug
ANSWER BOOK page iii. 4 Dot
28
29
Love
Owl & the Clown
5 The Pet Hen 30 Jessica
6 Fox on the Box
Its already roughly life-size. 7 I Can Run
31
32
Kate and the Rake
The Boat
8 The Picnic 33 On the Hill
Any queries, ring Philip on 9
10
My Pup
John and his Fox
34 The Cat and the Fish
35 Dolly Duck
mob 0419 209 818 1x Ann and Mal 36 Captain Hornblower
2x Tom Cat & Jim Rat 37 Flying Doctor Service
3x The Mud Hut 38 David the Duck
4x Ants at the Camp 39 Silas the Cat
5x The Big Mess 40 Shawn & the Go-Kart
6x The Sick Dog 41 Tim Comes to Stay
7x The Land of Zond 42 The Bear Next Door
8x The Bus Stop 43 Ling Goes to China
9x The Billabong 44 Cindy's Trip to Perth
10x Cat and Kitten 45 Sir John & Bear Bros
11 The Animals 46 Arthur and the Crayfish
12 My Lost Bear 47 The New Year Party
13 The Frog and the Fly 48 Inconvenient Puncture
14 The Girl and the Boy 49 The Grass is Greener
15 Tall and Small 50 The Wisdom of Solomon
16 Buns and Eggs 51 Paul’s Principle
17 The Fish 52 The Dirt Track
18 Dad and the Kids 53 Athlete Pete
19 Mark and Mars 54 Meeting the Challenge
20 Wombat 55 Transported
21 Woodpecker 56 David and Goliath
22 Rabbit Wants a Carrot 57 Excavations
23 The Girls & the Ball 58 Andrew and Diana
24 Cat, Dog, and Vet 59 Lost and Won
25 Tom and Ben 60 The Facts of Life
 Fitzroy Word Skills Books 6A and 6B
bring together the

PRACTICAL GRAMMAR
needed for an educated knowledge of the English language.

Very basic points of grammar such as punctuation

are introduced in the earlier Word Skills books, but

Word Skills 6A and 6B contain the many grammar work sheets needed to fully
cover this aspect of English. These work books 6A and 6B can be presented
to students anywhere from final year primary to final year secondary.

Word Skills 6A and 6B are written in a large, generous, easy format,

and are presented in small logical steps, providing a friendly and
pleasurable way to study English grammar.

Word Skills 6A and 6B go into just enough detail to enable students

to participate fully in modern literacy, without getting into the
unnecessarily abstruse detail of old grammar books.

Word Skills 6A and 6B are practical for today’s world.

They enable students:

1) to speak intelligently about the structure of English,

2) to use English correctly in ways which are still considered

important in today’s world,

3) to know the standard terms of grammar – noun, verb,

prefix, tense, preposition, etc – exactly as they are used in
the world today in publishing, journalism, philosophy, etc,

4) to have the necessary grammatical knowledge to tackle a

language other than English, and

5) to enjoy the workings of English, to expand vocabulary and

to write more artfully.

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 Concerning the Fitzroy Readers and the Fitzroy Word Skills

The “S” word To this we say, Certainly, correct

There has been a tendency in recent spelling is convention, but it is one
years to avoid the issue of spelling. which society shows no intention of
The dominance of whole-word letting go of!
recognition has meant that students Fairly or not, people are judged by
have lost ground in word attack. their spelling. Many a job seeker or
Many students lack a logical letter writer is discredited because
approach to the reading and writing their document is misspelled.
of words they have not been Computer spell-checkers do not help
personally introduced to. with homophones (such as their,
The balanced approach of the Fitzroy there, and they’re), and anyway are
literacy materials meets this need. not always available.
Each step in our program makes the Spelling is an enjoyable part of the
student aware of a word family (for curriculum if you take advantage of
example, the ar words or the tion the naturally occurring word families
words or the ire words, etc), as well of English – as the Fitzroy materials
as a small set of special words (for do.
example, said or through or eight).
Indeed, once you get past the
This is, in fact, a phonic approach extremely common sight words such
combined with a whole word as a, of, the, to, I, who, are, etc, you
approach. find that the vast bulk of the “higher”
Students who use Fitzroy materials vocabulary fits quite obediently into
prosper in spelling. The secret of our the 50-or-so common digraphs in
success is that we make students English spelling.
aware whether each word is Words like procrastination, therapy,
normally spelled (belongs to a word manufacture, and envious for
family) or has a special spelling (and example hold no fears for a Fitzroy
must be learned by rote). Flagging student who has completed story 50
each word in this simple way gives or Word Skills 5.
students a head start in accurate
reading and writing. Spelling is here to stay.
One academic was quoted in the You will not find any set of literacy
newspaper last year as saying materials that supports spelling as
something like, “Well, correct thoroughly, as systematically, as
spelling is only a convention successfully and as painlessly as the
anyway.” Fitzroy materials.
 Master List for Stories 1-10
For the Fitzroy Readers
& the Fitzroy Word Skills
SHOWING ALL SOUNDS AND SPECIAL WORDS

NO. TITLE SOUNDS SPECIAL WORDS

1 A Fat Cat c(a)t
A or a
2 A Big Pig - p(i)g
3 Bug on a Rug b(u)g
the of
4 Dot d(o)t
[printing
“a” as “a”]
5 The Pet Hen h(e)n was to
6 Fox on the Box f(o)x I have
7 I Can Run b(u)g too with
8 The Picnic p(i)g for go said
9 My Pup r(oo)f name like
my play
10 John and p(e)t very John
His Fox
The SPECIAL WORDS shown in ITALICS
become NORMAL WORDS later in the series.
 a as in cat
FITZROY WORD SKILLS

SHEET 1A
See the picture, say the word, sound the word, trace the letters, and fill in the sound a.

cat pan
cat pan
can hat
can hat
mat tap
mat tap
man bat
man bat
rat cap
rat cap
fan bag
fan bag
FITZROY WORD SKILLS STORIES 1-10 SUPPLIED BY FITZROY PROGRAMS PH (03) 9489 5700

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Special Word “a”

FITZROY WORD SKILLS

SHEET 1B

See the picture, say the word, sound the word, trace the letters, write the word a.

a cat a pan
a cat a pan
a can a hat
a can a hat
a mat a tap
a mat a tap
a man a bat
a man a bat
a rat a cap
a rat a cap
a fan a bag
a fan a bag
FITZROY WORD SKILLS STORIES 1-10 SUPPLIED BY FITZROY PROGRAMS PH (03) 9489 5700