Advanced Comprehension Skills: Linked Extracts Book 1
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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 authorÂ’s purpose and craft, finding the main idea and inferencing.
An introduction provides tips on how to approach the questions and what to look out for. This is followed by 20 stimulating units of work, each containing 10 advanced comprehension questions. The end of the book contains full explanations for each question so that students can carefully review and understand their mistakes.
About the Authors
Helen Kelly has worked in international assessments for 20 years as both a marker and author of education assessment material, including ICAS and NAPLAN. She has a background as a high school English teacher and has published seven books for children.
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.
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 authorÂ’s purpose and craft, finding the main idea and inferencing.
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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