This book is part of the Excel Advanced Skills</stro ng> series, which provides students with more challenging extension work in reading and comprehension.

The Excel Advanced Sk ills series of Reading and Comprehension Workbooks for Years 1–6 w ill help students improve their reading and comprehension—in Engli sh and in other subjects—and become more competent, reflective and critical readers.

The first part of the book focuses on read ing strategies such as skimming, scanning, visualising, connecting, pred icting, inferring, monitoring and judging (reading reflectively and crit ically).

The second part of the book shows students how to an swer the five types of comprehension questions they are likely to encoun ter during their primary school years: fact-finding, synthesis, inferrin g, language and judgement questions.

This book has been speci fically written for the YEAR 3 AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM ENGLISH COURSE.

CHAPTERS:

How to use this bookstro ng>
Section 1: Reading strategies
Step-by-ste p guide
Reading with understanding
1 Skimming
2 Visualisi ng
3 Connecting
4 Predicting
5 Inferring
6 Monitorin g
7 Judging
8 Scanning
Section 2: Types of questi ons
Fact-finding questions
Synthesis questions
I nferring questions
Language questions
Judgement questions<br / >Section 3: Bringing it all together
Mixed questio ns
Answers
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