This colourful activity book, featuring six friendly animal students from Ladybird Class, helps preschool children develop key first writing and synthetic phonics skills.Perfect for fun at-home learning, Wipe-Clean First Words comes with sturdy, reusable wipe-clean pages and a special pen. The book encourages children to build their writing confidence by gradually introducing different skills: from forming all the letters in alphabetical order to practising writing groups of letters that require the same hand movements (for example, curly, round letters a, c and o), all the way through to using capital letters to write names and even their first sentence.Wipe-Clean First Words also includes phonics sounds and common tricky words to practice, as well as fun ideas for extension activities. It is the ideal follow-on companion to Learn with Ladybird: Wipe-Clean Letters.