Excel Advanced Skills Workbook: Reading and Comprehension Workbook Year 2

This book is part of the Excel Advanced Skills series, which provides students with more challenging extension work in reading and comprehension. The Excel Advanced Skills ser ies of Reading and Comprehension Workbooks for Years 1–6 will help students improve their reading and comprehension—in English and i n other subjects—and become more competent, reflective and critica l readers. The book teaches students how to answer the five t ypes of comprehension questions they are likely to encounter during thei r primary school years: fact-finding, synthesis, inferring, language and judgement questions. This book has been specifically written for the YEAR 2 AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM ENGLISH COURSE. CHAPTERS: How to use this book Reading Strategies 1 Skimming 2 Visualising 3 Connecting 4 Predicting 5 Inferring 6 Monitoring 7 Judging 8 Scanning Step-by-step reading texts Section 1: Types of questions Fact-find ing questions Synthesis questions Inferring questions Lan guage questions Judgement questions Section 2: Bringin g it all together Mixed questions Section 3: Answers Marking grid —- ISBN: 9781741255690 | ISBN10: 1741255694 | ISBN-13: 978-1741255690