This set of 3 books covers all the high frequency words for Year 1 and gives a lesson a week on early phonic and reading skills. The Literacy for Life series is a photocopiable structured resource for teaching spellings and phonics. The series contains word lists and spelling patterns; phonic matching exercises; comprehension and cloze procedure activities; dictation and sound differentiation units. The students soon begin to recognise the pattern of exercises presented which helps when new words and sounds are introduced.