A complete, ready-to-use 33-week Literacy Skills workbook designed to help Junior Cycle students build confidence in reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and communication.

This resource is ideal for 1st to 3rd year English, resource classes, literacy support, homework, independent learning or weekly skills practice. Each weekly page follows a clear and consistent structure, making it easy for students to understand the skill, practise it, apply it to reading and then use it in their own writing.

The workbook includes:

• A full 33-week literacy programme
• Reference pages for key writing habits, the writing process, sentence skills, vocabulary, sensory writing, show don’t tell and editing
• Weekly lessons covering sentence construction, verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, sentence openers, tense, figurative language, dialogue, structure, persuasive writing, descriptive writing, narrative writing, paragraph improvement, spelling, fragments, run-on sentences and more
• Short, manageable 10-minute workout tasks
• Reading connection activities
• Writing challenges
• Homework tasks for copybook work
• A final master checklist so students can reflect on the skills they have learned

Skills covered include:

• Capital letters and full stops
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Powerful verbs
• Precise nouns
• Strong adjectives
• Sentence openers
• Adverbs
• Verb tenses
• Figurative language
• Dialogue and speech
• Sentence variety
• Show, don’t tell
• Describing places
• Structuring writing
• Voice and opinion
• Persuasive, descriptive and narrative writing
• Editing vocabulary
• Removing unnecessary details
• Improving paragraphs
• Connecting ideas
• Better openings
• Commonly misspelt words
• Compound and complex sentences
• Avoiding fragments
• Fixing run-on sentences

This workbook has been created with busy teachers in mind. It is structured, student-friendly and easy to slot into one lesson per week, literacy starters, homework routines or targeted support sessions.

The design is clean, visual and accessible, with clear explanations, examples, tasks and plenty of opportunities for students to practise.

Perfect for:

• Junior Cycle English
• Literacy support
• Resource classes
• First year literacy programmes
• Homework booklets
• Revision and catch-up
• Independent writing practice
• Whole-school literacy initiatives

A practical, no-fuss literacy workbook that helps students build the small skills that make a big difference.