Basic Practising Skills in English

Basic Practising Skills in English: With Worksheets and Exercises 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.

• The reading passages provide practice in reading skills such as fluency, clarity, articulation, pronunciation, and fast reading pace.


• The new word section helps students read and spell words, gain word familiarisation, word meanings, and word use in sentences.


• Unfamiliar phrases show how to deduce meanings of phrases as used in a passage or in full sentences.


• Listen and talk activity offers practice in listening and talking skills, turn taking, being attentive, oral comprehension, and use of non-verbal cues.


• Creative writing/composition writing exercises deliver practice in free form writing, creative or critical thinking, and in composing coherent sentences.


• Comprehension writing exercises test reading, memory, comprehension, and writing skills in response to questions within a passage.

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.