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Advice for grown-ups
Websites to visit
Tips for getting children interested in writing
Print out a guide to recommended pencil grip and letter forms
Information about literacy milestones
Find tips, rhymes and lots more activities.
Online activities to share with children
Websites to visit
Collect flying letters to spell lots of words
Note: Some of the letters are written differently in Little Wipe-Clean First Words.
See how to spell some simple words
Choose a word in the playlist. Note: Some of the letters are written differently in Little Wipe-Clean First Words. (Videos may not be available where you are due to BBC copyright restrictions.)
Online fun with virtual pencils, paints and stamps
Children can use their fingers on phones and tablets to write letters and words and draw pictures.
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About this book
Little wipe-cleans
Little wipe-clean first words
This fun book is a perfect way for young children to learn their first words. There are lots of easy three-letter words to practise reading and writing and a guide to writing big letters too. With durable, wipe-clean pages for endless practice and links to websites with advice and more activities to help children learn to read and write.
Felicity Brooks
Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s. She has written and edited hundreds of children’s titles, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts. Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.
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