Excel Advanced Skills Workbook : Year 4 : Reading and Comprehension Workbook

Excel Advanced Skills Workbook : Year 4 : Reading and Comprehension Workbook
ISBN: 9781741254532
Publication Date: 20 December 2014

The Excel Advanced Skills Reading and Comprehension Workbook Year 4 will help students improve their ;reading a nd comprehension—in English and in other subjects—and become more competent, reflective and critical readers.

The first p art of the book focuses on reading strategies such as skimming, scanning , visualising, connecting, predicting, ;inferring, monitoring and ju dging (reading reflectively and critically).

The second part of the book shows 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 quest ions.

This book has been specifically written for the YEAR 4 AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM ENGLISH COURSE.

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How to use this book
< strong>Section 1: Reading strategies
1 Skimming
2 Vis ualising
3 Connecting
4 Predicting
5 Inferring
6 Mon itoring
7 Judging
8 Scanning
Section 2: Types of questions
Fact-finding questions
Synthesis questions< br />Inferring questions
Language questions
Judgement question s
Section 3: Bringing it all together
Mixed q uestions
Answers
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