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With these worksheets, we want to give parents who want to help their child
read better a few exercises to help their child/ren at home. This 'quick-view
booklet is the first exercises in various areas, for instance, visual, phonetic,
phonics, alphabet, language, comprehension strategies, and study for Grade
R to 12. These worksheets are part of the Eyebraingym system. There is a
significant learning loss and exacerbated gaps in learning that happened
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Use these worksheets with love, and please take the following to heart:
1. Start where your child is. Make sure it is easy and that he enjoys the
exercises, then he will want to learn even more. If you are unsure where your
child's skills development is now - go online and do the FREE placement
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2. Keep reading exciting; remember reading is the key to unlimited
knowledge; make it fun; reading should never be a punishment!
4. Reading must progress from the place where we learn to read; until we
read to learn. Your reading skill thus becomes your learning skill.
5. You now have the opportunity in your hands to change your child's future;
use it with wisdom and love.
Reading greetings
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Visual skills
Exercise 1

Study the box below. Copy the letters to exactly the same space
in the empty box.

o e r
s s
n d w t
b s
m f

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Exercise 2

Can you put the ball on top of the soccer player's head without
crossing your eyes? Ask your facilitator for help if you are unable to
complete this exercise.

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Exercise 3
Count as quickly as possible from left to right how many times you recognise
the numbers at the top. Start with 6 and count to the end, then continue with
4 and then 2. Write down how many times you saw the number in the block
next to it. Use a stopwatch. Try to complete the following number faster than
the previous.

6 4 2
= = =
4 6 8 4 2 1 9 6 5 7

3 5 7 9 1 2 0 6 4 2

7 3 8 1 0 2 7 4 3 9

6 8 0 3 6 5 4 1 7 0

5 3 8 7 0 2 1 8 3 2

4 7 0 1 2 7 4 3 6 9

6 7 6 9 3 5 2 1 0 3

4 6 7 9 8 2 4 1 4 2

5 3 1 7 4 5 2 0 4 2
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Exercise 4
As quickly as possible, find the letter that is different in each line. Draw a line
through it. You are working against time.

a a a e a

b d b b b

m m n m m

p g g g g

k k k l k

s s s s e

w v v v v

t t b t t

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Language skills
Interesting language facts
1. The English alphabet consists of 26 letters.
2. Each letter has a capital letter and lowercase letter
3. The English alphabet is based on the Latin script, the
basic set of letters common to various alphabets
originating from the Latin alphabet.
4. The English word 'alphabet' comes from the first two
letters in the Greek alphabet 'Alpha' and 'Beta.'
5. There are five vowels in the English alphabet:

aeiou
6. The remaining 21 letters are consonants:

bcdfghjklm
npqrstvwxyz
7. The two letters' a' and 'I' also constitutes words.
8. Until recently (1835), the 27th letter of the alphabet,
right after z, was the ampersand.
9. In British English, we say Zed, and in American English,
we say Zee.
10. Letters don't always represent the same sounds
in the English language.

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11. There are 44 sounds in the English

a. 24 consonant sounds
b. 20 vowel sounds

Vowels:
A sound we make when breath flows out through the
mouth freely, without being blocked.
The letters a,e, i,o,u are called vowels because they are
such sounds, but there are 20 vowels in English, divided
into three types:

Pure vowels (12 sounds)

Short vowels (7 sounds)

‘i’ in bit, busy, started

‘e’ in bed, said, dead
‘a’ in cat, mat, apple
‘u’ in cup, up, money
‘oo’ in good, put, should
‘o’ in got, what,
because
‘e’ in the, about

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and Long vowels (5 sounds)

‘a’ in bath, car, safari

‘o’ in door, saw, walk
‘i’ in bird, work, hurt
‘ee’ in sheep, eagle, field
‘oo’ in moon, grew, through

Diphthongs (8 sounds)

‘ea’ in year, beer

‘ai’ in chair, there
‘o’ in joke, vote
‘ey’ in they, bathe
‘y’ in my, dice
‘oy’ in joy, noise
‘ou’ in out, vow
‘oo’ in poor, moor

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Comprehension strategies
We use comprehension strategies to improve our reading
skills. This helps us to remember better and more. Try these
strategies and see how your marks at school improve!
Remember, words are keys to information. If you know
more words, you will be able to understand more
information.

Do you know what these words mean? If you don't know

the word, try to find it online or in a dictionary. Use the
words in your own sentences.
 vegetables
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 regularly

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 disease
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 exercise
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 quickly
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To read faster and understand better, we have to know

as many words as possible. There are general words we
use every day, and then there are words used in a
specific field of interest. Try to learn as many new words as
possible every day! This process will require patience,
determination and time, but in any case, there is no need
to hurry: you are going to learn new words every day.

Write down words from the following

categories

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Anticipate
Why is it important to be able to anticipate?
Reading is not only trying to find information but to find
information with a purpose. We have to be creative when we look
at the information. Read for ideas. Ask questions before you read,
while you read, and after you've read.

Look at the picture, title and vocabulary

below. Ask yourself:
 What is this about?
 What would be important?
 What do I want to know about this topic?

The lion and the mouse

nose
mercy
pity
free
kindness
roar
trouble
trap
ropes
saved

What do you think is going to happen in this story?

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Read the story

One day a lion was resting in a
forest. Suddenly a mouse ran
over his nose. The lion caught
the mouse in his big paw. The
little mouse begged for mercy.
"Please do not kill me," she
squeaked. The lion took pity on
her. He opened his paw and let
her go free. "Thank you," said
the mouse. "Someday, I will
repay your kindness." The next
morning the mouse heard a
great angry roar. She knew that
the lion was in trouble. She set
off at once to find him. The
mouse saw that her friend had
been caught in a trap. She
nibbled at the net and quickly
cut the ropes. In a short time,
the King of Beasts was free
again. The lion thanked the
mouse. "You have saved my
life," he said. The lion then ran
away to a safe part of the
forest.
Did you anticipate correctly? What did you learn in this exercise?

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Study skills and strategies

Exercise 1
We will now use your keywords and supporting words from the previous exercise to draw
up a summary.

John and Mary like to go to the zoo. They

enter through the gate. First, they have
to buy tickets. In the first cage are the
snakes. Mary does not like them. The
monkeys are next door. They swing on
cross-bars. The elephants are in a big
den. They have a waterhole. They splash
themselves with water. The lions and
tigers are scary. The tiger's fur is pretty.
The fur is yellow with black stripes. The
birdcage is large. There are many
colourful birds. Our family rests on the
grass. Mother opens the picnic basket.
The doves come closer. Mary feeds them
with crumbs. "Why are there zoos, dad?"
asks John. "The zoo teaches us to care
for animals," he answers.

Loof at the example of a divided page diagram

Who went to the zoo?

What did they see?

What did the animals do?

Who opens the picnic basket?

Where did they rest?

Why are there zoos?

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Read through the story below. Underline the important words in each
sentence. Compile your own divided page diagram.

History of Wheels
In 3500 BC, the wheel was invented in Mesopotamia
(now Iraq). It was used for transportation purposes (to
move the Mesopotamian chariots).
Human beings devised a way of moving heavy loads
by using rolling logs, but this became problematic
because many logs (or rollers) were used. One
needed to be vigilant to ensure that the rollers stayed
on course. To overcome this obstacle, a
platform was built with cross-bars attached underside
(the beginnings of the first axle), which prevented the
logs from moving around under the load. Two rollers
and two cross-bars would be used for each roller, one
in front of and the other behind the roller.
One thousand five hundred years later, the spoke
was invented. The need for faster transportation and
the use of less material drove this development.
In 1000BC, the Celtic chariots used iron rims around
their wheels. These spoked rims remained more or less
the same until GF Bauer patented a wire tension
spoke in 1802. Gradually the wire-spoke developed
into a round tension spoke. Examples of these can be
seen on bicycles that we ride today.

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Metacognition
What is meta-cognition?
meta = ‘about’ and
cognition = thinking
It is purposefully thinking about
the strategies you use when
you think and learn. You use this to
understand your own cognitive
performance.

What do we need to
improve meta-cognition?
We need an accurate mind-set
If you believe you can, you can work towards your goal. You have
to understand that you choose to stay where you are or change
your future by changing today.
Nothing has to stay the same... you can grow in every area of your
life to become better, stronger, reach higher.

Know how to set goals

You have to be able to set achievable goals – but still challenge
yourself. Knows how to monitor your achievements towards
reaching your goals. Celebrate your wins, and learn from your
losses.

Have the grit to evaluate

If you know how to learn from your losses, you will learn how to do
it better next time. Have the grit to really find out what you could
have done better. This allows you to be prepared for the next time
you can seize an opportunity.

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Can all the animals in

the zoo be kept in the
same cage?

fur

den
Can you
name five next cage
animals that
are likely to
be found in lions
the zoo?

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Let's think about learning… ask yourself:

 Have I done something similar before?
 Can I apply that to this situation?
 What worked well?
 What should I do first?
 What can I do differently?

Can you use the strategy on 'Words I know', 'Words I have

seen', and 'Words I have never seen before' to learn new
words? Have you tried to use it before?

Words I know

Words I have
seen

Words I have
never seen
before

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We hope you enjoyed these worksheets!

This 'quick view' booklet is the first exercises in

several areas:
 visual,
 comprehension,
 study
 'Think about learning',
 language etc ...
of our available online worksheets.

Fill in the personal information questions on our

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download free worksheets.
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