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
- Marking grid