Advanced Comprehension Cloze Passages book 1&2 Bundle
An introductory chapter offers tips and tricks on how to approach the activities – for example, identifying topic sentences and patterns of text organisation, and understanding connectives and other details – before providing some practice questions with worked solutions. Students will then work through 30 cloze practice units across 3 themed chapters: Earth Wind Fire Water, Technology, and Human Society and Culture. Each chapter is designed to increase in difficulty.
About the Authors
Janelle Ho has worked in education for 30 years. She started her career teaching gifted and talented teenagers for a decade, before moving into assessments. In the last two decades, her job has been in developing international literacy assessments. She is currently Head of Education at EduVision. With over a decade of experience preparing students for Selective, Scholarship and OC exams, Tysan Allen is the co-founder, director and head teacher of EduVision, where he teaches enrichment writing and reading comprehension classes. He is also the co-author of Advanced Comprehension Skills: Linked Extracts.
Advanced Comprehension Cloze Passages book 1&2 Bundle
An introductory chapter offers tips and tricks on how to approach the activities – for example, identifying topic sentences and patterns of text organisation, and understanding connectives and other details – before providing some practice questions with worked solutions. Students will then work through 30 cloze practice units across 3 themed chapters: Earth Wind Fire Water, Technology, and Human Society and Culture. Each chapter is designed to increase in difficulty.
About the Authors
Janelle Ho has worked in education for 30 years. She started her career teaching gifted and talented teenagers for a decade, before moving into assessments. In the last two decades, her job has been in developing international literacy assessments. She is currently Head of Education at EduVision. With over a decade of experience preparing students for Selective, Scholarship and OC exams, Tysan Allen is the co-founder, director and head teacher of EduVision, where he teaches enrichment writing and reading comprehension classes. He is also the co-author of Advanced Comprehension Skills: Linked Extracts.
Advanced Comprehension Cloze Passages book 2
Contents
- An island is born
- The sands of time
- Good fire, bad fire
- Tornado, hurricane, cyclone
- Karst: Ten per cent of the earth
- Colours in the sky
- What is this I see sparkling in the dirt?
- The Iguazú Falls
- Renewable energy
- Give us a wave!
- Why aren’t we already living in space?
- Cloud seeding
- Robot teachers?
- Oh, to live forever!
- The role of technology in espionage
- Planned obsolescence
- 3D printing
- Chicken made in a lab
- Autonomous vehicles
- Terraforming
- The power of pop culture
- Dragons
- The mystery of mass hysteria
- The Olympic Games: economic boom or doom?
- Superhero obsession
- Once upon a time: the evolution of fairy tales
- The gift economy
- Fast fashion
- IQ and EQ
- Conspiracy theories
About the Authors
Janelle Ho has worked in education for 30 years. She started her career teaching gifted and talented teenagers for a decade, before moving into assessments. In the last two decades, her job has been in developing international literacy assessments. She is currently Head of Education at EduVision. With over a decade of experience preparing students for Selective, Scholarship and OC exams, Tysan Allen is the co-founder, director and head teacher of EduVision, where he teaches enrichment writing and reading comprehension classes. He is also the co-author of Advanced Comprehension Skills: Linked Extracts.
Advanced Comprehension Cloze Passages book 2
Contents
- An island is born
- The sands of time
- Good fire, bad fire
- Tornado, hurricane, cyclone
- Karst: Ten per cent of the earth
- Colours in the sky
- What is this I see sparkling in the dirt?
- The Iguazú Falls
- Renewable energy
- Give us a wave!
- Why aren’t we already living in space?
- Cloud seeding
- Robot teachers?
- Oh, to live forever!
- The role of technology in espionage
- Planned obsolescence
- 3D printing
- Chicken made in a lab
- Autonomous vehicles
- Terraforming
- The power of pop culture
- Dragons
- The mystery of mass hysteria
- The Olympic Games: economic boom or doom?
- Superhero obsession
- Once upon a time: the evolution of fairy tales
- The gift economy
- Fast fashion
- IQ and EQ
- Conspiracy theories
About the Authors
Janelle Ho has worked in education for 30 years. She started her career teaching gifted and talented teenagers for a decade, before moving into assessments. In the last two decades, her job has been in developing international literacy assessments. She is currently Head of Education at EduVision. With over a decade of experience preparing students for Selective, Scholarship and OC exams, Tysan Allen is the co-founder, director and head teacher of EduVision, where he teaches enrichment writing and reading comprehension classes. He is also the co-author of Advanced Comprehension Skills: Linked Extracts.
Advanced Comprehension Skills: Cloze Passages Book 1
A cloze passage requires students to make sense of the meaning and grammar of the surrounding words in order to fill in gaps in the text. In this book, designed for Years 5 and 6, students are challenged to match deleted sentences with the correct gaps in a given passage. Texts are authored specifically to require students to use a range of higher-order comprehension skills, including identifying the main idea and making connections between ideas.
An introductory chapter offers tips and tricks on how to approach the activities for example, identifying topic sentences and patterns of text organisation, and understanding connectives and other details before providing some practice questions with worked solutions. Students will then work through 30 cloze practice units across 3 themed chapters: Heroes and Villains, History and Animalia. Each chapter is designed to increase in difficulty.
Advanced Comprehension Skills: Cloze Passages Book 1
A cloze passage requires students to make sense of the meaning and grammar of the surrounding words in order to fill in gaps in the text. In this book, designed for Years 5 and 6, students are challenged to match deleted sentences with the correct gaps in a given passage. Texts are authored specifically to require students to use a range of higher-order comprehension skills, including identifying the main idea and making connections between ideas.
An introductory chapter offers tips and tricks on how to approach the activities for example, identifying topic sentences and patterns of text organisation, and understanding connectives and other details before providing some practice questions with worked solutions. Students will then work through 30 cloze practice units across 3 themed chapters: Heroes and Villains, History and Animalia. Each chapter is designed to increase in difficulty.
Advanced Comprehension Skills: Linked Extracts Book 1
Designed to help students develop their comprehension skills and prepare for the NSW Selective Test
In this book, designed for Years 5 and 6, students will read four passages linked by theme and then answer a series of comprehension questions to test their understanding. Featuring a range of engaging and challenging texts from various genres of writing, students will need to apply higher-order comprehension skills, including summarising, comparing and contrasting, drawing conclusions, understanding authors purpose and craft, finding the main idea and inferencing.
Advanced Comprehension Skills: Linked Extracts Book 1
Designed to help students develop their comprehension skills and prepare for the NSW Selective Test
In this book, designed for Years 5 and 6, students will read four passages linked by theme and then answer a series of comprehension questions to test their understanding. Featuring a range of engaging and challenging texts from various genres of writing, students will need to apply higher-order comprehension skills, including summarising, comparing and contrasting, drawing conclusions, understanding authors purpose and craft, finding the main idea and inferencing.
Australian History Comprehension Year 5
28 units of activities with answers included, featuring stories drawn from Australian history. The units of work are:
Australian History Comprehension Year 5
28 units of activities with answers included, featuring stories drawn from Australian history. The units of work are:
Australian History Comprehension Year 6
24 units of activities with answers included, featuring stories drawn from Australian history. The units of work are:
Australian History Comprehension Year 6
24 units of activities with answers included, featuring stories drawn from Australian history. The units of work are:
Comprehension Five
Five Senses Skill Builders No. 60
Each book in the Five Senses Skill Builders: Comprehension series contains 25-35 comprehension exercises requiring a variety of response types: multiple-choice, choose the correct response, short-answer responses and extended responses. The comprehension passages utilise a wide variety of text types and answers are included.
Comprehension Five
Five Senses Skill Builders No. 60
Each book in the Five Senses Skill Builders: Comprehension series contains 25-35 comprehension exercises requiring a variety of response types: multiple-choice, choose the correct response, short-answer responses and extended responses. The comprehension passages utilise a wide variety of text types and answers are included.
Comprehension Four
Five Senses Skill Builders No. 59
Each book in the Five Senses Skill Builders: Comprehension series contains 25-35 comprehension exercises requiring a variety of response types: multiple-choice, choose the correct response, short-answer responses and extended responses. The comprehension passages utilise a wide variety of text types and answers are included.
Comprehension Four
Five Senses Skill Builders No. 59
Each book in the Five Senses Skill Builders: Comprehension series contains 25-35 comprehension exercises requiring a variety of response types: multiple-choice, choose the correct response, short-answer responses and extended responses. The comprehension passages utilise a wide variety of text types and answers are included.
Comprehension Six [2nd edition]
Five Senses Skill Builders No. 53
Each book in the Five Senses Skill Builders: Comprehension series contains 25-35 comprehension exercises requiring a variety of response types: multiple-choice, choose the correct response, short-answer responses and extended responses. The comprehension passages utilise a wide variety of text types and answers are included.
Comprehension Six [2nd edition]
Five Senses Skill Builders No. 53
Each book in the Five Senses Skill Builders: Comprehension series contains 25-35 comprehension exercises requiring a variety of response types: multiple-choice, choose the correct response, short-answer responses and extended responses. The comprehension passages utilise a wide variety of text types and answers are included.
Comprehension Three [2nd edition]
Five Senses Skill Builders No. 58
Each book in the Five Senses Skill Builders: Comprehension series contains 25-35 comprehension exercises requiring a variety of response types: multiple-choice, choose the correct response, short-answer responses and extended responses. The comprehension passages utilise a wide variety of text types and answers are included.
Comprehension Three [2nd edition]
Five Senses Skill Builders No. 58
Each book in the Five Senses Skill Builders: Comprehension series contains 25-35 comprehension exercises requiring a variety of response types: multiple-choice, choose the correct response, short-answer responses and extended responses. The comprehension passages utilise a wide variety of text types and answers are included.
Daily Language Practice Book 2
- Forty weeks of ten-minute daily activities that develop grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and reading comprehension skills
- Varied text types and engaging topics for reading comprehension tasks
- A wide variety of activity types, including NAPLAN-style questions
- Progress charts to help identify areas for improvement
- Vocabulary sheets to track and reinforce retention of new words
- Complete answer sheets, available online.
Daily Language Practice Book 2
- Forty weeks of ten-minute daily activities that develop grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and reading comprehension skills
- Varied text types and engaging topics for reading comprehension tasks
- A wide variety of activity types, including NAPLAN-style questions
- Progress charts to help identify areas for improvement
- Vocabulary sheets to track and reinforce retention of new words
- Complete answer sheets, available online.
Daily Language Practice Book1
- Forty weeks of ten-minute daily activities that develop grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and reading comprehension skills
- Varied text types and engaging topics for reading comprehension tasks
- A wide variety of activity types, including NAPLAN-style questions
- Progress charts to help identify areas for improvement
- Vocabulary sheets to track and reinforce retention of new words
- Complete answer sheets, available online.
Daily Language Practice Book1
- Forty weeks of ten-minute daily activities that develop grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and reading comprehension skills
- Varied text types and engaging topics for reading comprehension tasks
- A wide variety of activity types, including NAPLAN-style questions
- Progress charts to help identify areas for improvement
- Vocabulary sheets to track and reinforce retention of new words
- Complete answer sheets, available online.
Essential Naplan Reading and Comprehension year 3
- 9 beginner reading tests
- 9 intermediate reading tests
- 9 advanced reading tests
- 3 practice NAPLAN-format tests
- Features a range of text types - plays, poems, reviews, letters, fiction, visual texts and more
- Answers are included
Essential Naplan Reading and Comprehension year 3
- 9 beginner reading tests
- 9 intermediate reading tests
- 9 advanced reading tests
- 3 practice NAPLAN-format tests
- Features a range of text types - plays, poems, reviews, letters, fiction, visual texts and more
- Answers are included
Essential Naplan Reading and Comprehension year 5
- 9 beginner reading tests
- 9 intermediate reading tests
- 9 advanced reading tests
- 3 practice NAPLAN-format tests
- Features a range of text types - plays, poems, reviews, letters, fiction, visual texts and more
- Answers are included
Essential Naplan Reading and Comprehension year 5
- 9 beginner reading tests
- 9 intermediate reading tests
- 9 advanced reading tests
- 3 practice NAPLAN-format tests
- Features a range of text types - plays, poems, reviews, letters, fiction, visual texts and more
- Answers are included
Top Skills Bundle
