Do you remember those early days at school when you learnt to write and spell using workbooks? Sometimes you'd follow the contour of dotted outlines to form letter shapes and sometimes there'd be little boxes in which to place your basic arithmetic answers. All good fun. Such workbooks are now confined to those rosier than real memories of childhood. Or are they?
Not, if you're learning Teeline. Harry Butler's Teeline Gold Workbook is packed with exercises of varying types designed to bring on your Teeline - and quickly. Now it must be stated at the outset that this small book is not a course. Nor is it a theory book. It is meant to be used alongside either the mighty Teeline Gold Course Book or Ann Dix's Teeline Fast title. That said, the blue workbook does follow the same logic as the other Heinemann Teeline titles in its foundation-building approach.
Its point of departure is the Teeline alphabet. This quick overview is followed, in turn, by writing Teeline, plurals and the letter "s", "T"s and "D"s, vowels, common word endings, blends and then, finally, common word beginnings, such as "under", "trans" and "multi".
Within each of the various section headings there are writing ...