This "kit" consists of 145 activities that teach and reinforce specific pre-reading and beginning reading skills; it has been developed to help the primary grade teacher in recognizing and developing skills that assure each child's continuous reading progress. Part One explains how pre-reading skills are developing reading skills in the first five years of a child's life and includes information about the following skills: oral communication and visual recognition, visual perception, and auditory perception. Part Two provides activities for helping students begin to read and includes information about the following skills: basic reading, word attack, sight word recognition, and vocabulary and comprehension. The 145 activities can be used to enhance and reinforce instruction in conjunction with any basal reading series or teaching method. The workbook includes reproducible progress charts and skills checklists for reporting and monitoring each pupil's progress in learning specific pre-reading and beginning reading skills. (MS)