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Excel Comprehension and Written Expression Year 6 is essenti al for any student wishing to improve their comprehension skills. It all ows students to practice skills such as finding facts, making references, isolating relevant information, understanding questions and paragraphs, and using tables of contents, indexes, maps and graphs to find informa tion. The extracts are from a wide variety of genres to allow students t o gain confidence in reading different materials. Rather than giv e a range of question types based on each passage, the focus in this boo k will be on developing the student's skills with a particular question type. The book is structured so that if there is a weakness then the stu dent can concentrate on that particular weakness and become competent wi thout working through passages that may not contribute to the student's progress. In this book your child will find: over 60 graded units of stimulating exercises and extracts a wide vari ety of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer and sentence completion extracts from many different literary a nd factual text types a lift-out answer section
After completing Excel Basic Skills: Reading and Comprehensi on Years 1-2 your child will have improved their reading and compr ehension skills, and will be prepared for more advanced work at primary school level. In this book your child will find: a s tep-by-step learning approach a review of basic reading and com prehension skills a wide variety of activities many di fferent text-types to read and analyse a lift-out answer sectio n Comprehension of text involves bringing meaning to writt en (and spoken) language. It is more than the reading of printed words. The meaning of words, their context in which they exist along with punct uation and writing style all contribute to the comprehension...
Excel Comprehension and Written Expression Year 4 is essenti al for any student wishing to improve their comprehension skills. It all ows students to practice skills such as finding facts, making references, isolating relevant information, understanding questions and paragraphs, and using tables of contents, indexes, maps and graphs to find informa tion. The extracts are from a wide variety of genres to allow students t o gain confidence in reading different materials. When the studen t completes the exercises in this book, she/he will have worked through a number of question types from a variety of text types. Rather than giv e a range of question types based on each passage, the focus in t...
Excel Test Skills - Opportunity Class Mathematics Tests Year s 3-4 is a comprehensive study guide for students preparing for the math ematical component of the Opportunity Class Test. A wide range of mathem atical topics, including space and measurement, money, graphs and tables and arithmetic, are covered in the practice tests. In this book your child will find: information on the method and purpose of Opportunity Class Placement Tests ten practice tests coveri ng a wide range of mathematical skills answers to all questions selected explanations to give hints on how to answer difficult questions
Excel Comprehension andWritten Expression Year 3 is essentia l for any student wishing to improve their comprehension skills. It allo ws students to practice skills such as finding facts, making references, isolating relevant information, understanding questions and paragraphs, and using tables of contents, indexes, maps and graphs to find informat ion. This book uses a range of text types so that the student wil l feel confident in a variety of situations. Text types are usually brok en into two broad categories. These are: literary te xts: include narratives, poetry and scripts factual texts: incl ude explanations, expositions, information reports, recounts and procedu res In this book your child will find: over 6 0 graded units of stimulating exercises and extracts a wide var iety of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer and sentence completion extracts from many different literary and factual text types a lift-out answer section
Excel Test Skills - Selective Schools and Scholarship Englis h Comprehension Tests Years 5-6 is a comprehensive study guide for Engli sh Comprehension part of the Selective Schools and Scholarship Tests (us ually undertaken in Year 6). The book contains hundreds of multiple choi ce questions based on a variety of text types - so students can pr epare for exams with a minimum of stress and maximum results. Thi s book is intended to give you the opportunity of doing a variety of que stions based on literary and factual texts. The more familiar you are wi th the material the more confident you will feel - and the better you wi ll do in your tests. In this book your child will find: an introductory section on the types of questions and resource mater ial used forty-eight individual comprehension tests ti ps to help them in tests situations a convenient lift-out answe r section with explanations
Excel Test Skills - Selective Schools and Scholarship Mathem atics Tests Year 5-6 is a comprehensive study guide for the select ive school and scholarship tests (usually undertaken in Year 6). The boo k contains hundreds of multiple choice questions based on the three majo r strands of maths - numeration, measurement and space - so students can prepare for exams with a minimum of stress and maximum resu lts. This book is intended to give you the opportunity of doing a variety of questions based on the three major strands of Mathematics (N umeration, Measurement and Space). The more familiar you are with the ma terial the more confident you will feel - and the better you will do in your tests. In this book your child will find: an in troductory section on how best to approach selective school and scholars hip test examinations hundreds of practice multiple choice ques tions answers to every question explanations that outl ine the thinking skills required for each question nine complet e practice tests
Students entering high school require effective writing skills and im aginative ability. Excel Basic Skills: Creative Writing Years 5-6 provides an accessible and enjoyable means of developing story writing ability. It covers the main features of story writing such as d eveloping ideas, creating a narrative and writing descriptions and dialo gue. There is plenty of practical advice on the craft of story writing a nd pointers for future development. In this book your child will find: self-contained units of work with scores of examples, writing tips, reading tasks and exercises techniques to help t hem improve their story writing - Sample answers to all questions sample answers to all questio...
Excel Comprehension and Written Expression Year 5 is essential for an y student wishing to improve their comprehension skills. It allows stude nts to practice skills such as finding facts, making references, isolati ng relevant information, understanding questions and paragraphs, and usi ng tables of contents, indexes, maps and graphs to find information. The extracts are from a wide variety of genres to allow students to gain co nfidence in reading different materials. In this book your child will find: over 60 graded units of stimulating exercises an d extracts a wide variety of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer and sentence completion extracts from many different literary and factual text types a lift-out answer section