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 ser ies of Reading and Comprehension Workbooks for Years 1–6 will help students improve their reading and comprehension—in English and i n other subjects—and become more competent, reflective and critica l readers.

The book teaches students how to answer the five t ypes of comprehension questions they are likely to encounter during thei r 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-find ing questions
Synthesis questions
Inferring questions
Lan guage questions
Judgement questions
Section 2: Bringin g it all together
Mixed questions
Section 3: Answers
Marking grid