Basic Skills is a series of graded activity books reinforcing key aspects of literacy such as vocabulary, dictionary skills, reading comprehension and punctuation. This book is suitable for children in Key Stage 1 who are preparing to make the transition to Key Stage 2. Basic Skills Book 5 covers adjectives/adverbs/similes/connectives, collective nouns, cloze text (predicting missing words), direct speech (speech bubbles) and comprehension.