Reading and Comprehension Workbook Year 5, Ages 10-11 by Donna Gibbs,Tanya Dalgleish

The Excel Advanced Skills Reading and Comprehension Workbook Year 5 will help students improve their reading a nd comprehension--in English and in other subjects--and become more competent, reflective and critical readers.

The first p art of the book focuses on reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, visualising, connecting, predicting, inferring, monitoring and ju dging (reading reflectively and critically).

The second part of the book shows students how to answer the five types of comprehension questions they are likely to encounter during their primary school years: fact-finding, synthesis, inferring, language and judgement quest ions.

This book has been specifically written for the YEAR 5 AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM ENGLISH COURSE.

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How to use this book
Section 1: Reading strategies
1 Skimming
2 Vis ualising
3 Connecting
4 Predicting
5 Inferring
6 Mon itoring
7 Judging
8 Scanning
Section 2: Types of questions
Fact-finding questions
Synthesis questionsInferring questions
Language questions
Judgement question s
Section 3: Bringing it all together
Mixed q uestions
Answers
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