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How Should This Book Be Used?

Whereas Play Onwards has several blanks―one for each missing
letter―Work on Words has just a single blank, one for each missing word.

Also, because the former book has sentences, which provide contextual
clues, while the latter has no sentences, it is considerably more difficult.

Therefore, students should not begin these exercises until they have

gained proficiency with the easier Play Onwards workbook. After two or
three months of working on Play Onwards, youngsters should be ready for

Work on Words.

With parental guidance, students should be able to handle this workbook
without very much difficulty. All that is needed, besides confidence in
their intellectual competence, is the realistic expectation that they should

not be able to recognize all, or perhaps even most, of the vocabulary words
on the first attempt, or hearing.

Depending on the age of the children and the vigilance that parents can

provide, students should be able to finish all the exercises of both volumes
of Work on Words in six to twelve months. If one exercise is done every
day, in one calendar year all the exercises will have been covered. (After

a time, you might want to slow the rate of covering Play Onwards while
increasing the rate of Work on Words so that the two books can be

covered simultaneously, exercise by exercise.) Whatever the pace, after
a month or two, all the previously done exercises should be reviewed.

Moreover, the entire workbook should be done a second time, for the
vocabulary words will be far better understood.

Before beginning any session, determine which exercises you plan to cover;

then, print the exercises out. (The words are heard on the computer, and
the answers are to be written on paper.)

Students should start any exercise by clicking on and listening to each
dark-red vocabulary word (seen in individual boxes), then listen to the

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