Excel Basic Skills Workbook: Comprehension and Written Expression Year 4

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 this boo k will be on developing the student's skill with a particular question t ype. The book is structured so that if there is a weakness then the stud ent can concentrate on that particular weakness and become competent wit hout working through passages that may not contribute to the student's p rogress. In this book your child will find: over 60 graded units of stimulating exercises and extractsa wide varie ty of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer a nd sentence completionextracts from many different literary an d factual text typesa lift-out answer section.