The enduring popularity of this series of ten English workbooks from Pre-primary to Classes 6/8 stems from the inventiveness of its imaginative and lively exercises. These encompass spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, simple grammar, sentence and paragraph composition and comprehension.

Throughout the earlier books every possible device has been used to give the child the power to write complete sentences in answer to questions–not simply by copying sentences but by completing, altering, joining, re-arranging and building them.

The series makes the ideal companion to Better English, but can be used with any good reading or language course.

English Work Book 8 by Ronald Ridout is an English book published by Heinemann Secondary Education, listed under Children's Books, English, Workbooks.