Excel Comprehension and Written Expression Year 5 is essential for an y student wishing to improve their comprehension skills. It allows stude nts to practice skills such as finding facts, making references, isolati ng relevant information, understanding questions and paragraphs, and usi ng tables of contents, indexes, maps and graphs to find information. The extracts are from a wide variety of genres to allow students to gain co nfidence in reading different materials. In this book your child will find: over 60 graded units of stimulating exercises an d extracts a wide variety of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer and sentence completion extracts from many different literary and factual text types a lift-out answer section

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 extracts a wide varie ty of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer a nd sentence completion extracts from many different literary an d factual text types a lift-out answer section.

Excel Writing Skills provides activities and exercises desig ned to improve the quality of students,, written expression. The exercis es are based on ten common text types in which specific grammar, punctua tion and language skills are used. This book should develop students,, w riting skills for all school subjects. In this book your child wi ll find: exercises based around ten common text types a wide variety of interesting activities fun visual exercis es to stimulate the imagination revision sections throughout fo r constant reinforcement a lift-out answer section The Excel Basic Skills: Writing Skills book is designed to he lp Years 3-4 students develop and increase their creative writing skills . It is a clear and practical guide to writing well-structured, grammati cally correct English. The book is divided into units based on various n arrative and non-fiction text types. Each unit provides a model text, th en a variety of practical exercises that cover the important grammar, vo cabulary and punctuation points to be learned when writing for that spec ific text type. Answers are provided in a convenient lift-out section in the centre. Contents: Narrative - ... Strike me Pin k! Recount -... Diary Entry Information Report - ... Th e Bilby Review Recount - ... History of Cats in Austra lia Exposition - ... Should Pet Cats Wear Bells? Proce dure - How to Make a Paper Folding Cat Preview Explana tion - ... Red Crabs of Christmas Island Description - ... the Sydney Opera House Review Biography - William Charles Wentworth Information Report - ... The Blue Mountains Review Answers

Excel Comprehension and Written Expression Year 6 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. 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 skills with a particular question type. The book is structured so that if there is a weakness then the stu dent can concentrate on that particular weakness and become competent wi thout working through passages that may not contribute to the student's progress. In this book your child will find: over 60 graded units of stimulating exercises and extracts a wide vari ety of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer and sentence completion extracts from many different literary a nd factual text types a lift-out answer section

Suited for children in Year 2, aged 7-8 years old, this book bu ilds basic skills in reading, comprehension and maths. It supports schoo lwork by having students practise key basic skills on a regular basis. T his allows your child to learn new concepts while revising previous work . In Excel English and Mathematics your child will find: thirty carefully graded double-page units. Each unit has w ork on numbers, measurement, shapes in Maths and comprehension, grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary in English a wide variety of interesting exercises four term reviews to test work covere d each term marking grids to identify strengths and weaknesses a lift-out answer section

Excel Developing Your Comprehension Skills aims to help Year s 7-10 students become more confident and skilled readers. It provides a range of activities using interesting and contemporary texts to give st udents plenty of practise in reading and interpreting different kinds of texts. In Excel Developing Your Comprehension Skills Years 7-1 0 you will find: comprehensive, accessible information on r eading skills for Years 7-10 students two separate sections: Pa rt One covers the key reading skills, while Part Two enables students to practice these skills with different texts plenty of exercises and tasks to ensure understanding of each new idea a wide rang e of interesting sample texts to help students read and understand diffe rent kinds of writing a wide variety of topics to cover a range of reader interests youth issues, music, science, current affa irs, film, sport, the environment and the future a detailed ans wer section to help explain the answers Author: Kristine Brown

Year 1 Ages 6-7 years old. In Excel English and Mathematics Year 1 your child will find: thirty carefully graded double-page units a wide variety of interesting exercise s four term reviews to test work covered each term mar king grids to identify strengths and weaknesses a lift-out answ er section This book aims to build basic skills in reading, comprehension and maths. It supports schoolwork by having students pra ctise key basic skills on a regular basis. This allows your child to lea rn new concepts while revising program work.