The "Letts Assessment Basics" are a series of workbooks, for use at home, designed to help parents assess their child"s strengths and weaknesses in the core areas of literacy and numeracy. Each book contains a pull-out test that is simple for parents to use to assess their child"s current understanding and knowledge. After this there follows colourful practice activities that can be used to develop and strengthen any areas that have been highlighted by the test. At the end of each book a final revision "check what you know" test provides a chance to recap the areas of learning.