Workbook for the Magic Belt Series for pupils age 8-14. This workbook prepares the older, 'catch-up' pupil for the Magic Belt series. Aimed at children who have poor letter/sound correspondence, it introduces the letters and sounds of the alphabet and double consonants in six introductory levels. It provides the fundamental building blocks a beginner reader will need to begin reading. Each level includes word-building, phoneme manipulation, blending and segmenting at word and caption level and an age-appropriate, illustrated decodable story.

This workbook includes a variety of essential reading activities for readers who know the sounds of the alphabet and can read simple CVC words. It includes 12 chapters which correspond to the reading books. Each chapter offers word-building, phoneme manipulation, blending and segmenting activities at word, caption and sentence level. It also includes a variety of comprehension activities and writing frames. This workbooks take the pupils from CVC and CVCC word level through the consonant digraphs, sh, ch, th, ck, ng, wh, qu, le and suffixes -ed and -ing. 191 pages