Excel Advanced Skills Workbooks: Reading and Comprehension Workbook Year 2

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

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 series of Reading and Comprehension Workbooks for Years 1–6 will help students improve their reading and comprehension—in English and in other subjects—and become more competent, reflective and critical readers.

The book teaches students how to answer the five types of comprehension questions they are likely to encounter during their 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-finding questions

Synthesis questions

Inferring questions

Language questions

Judgement questions

Section 2: Bringing it all together

Mixed questions

Section 3: Answers

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