Excel Comprehension and Written Expression Year 7 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.
On several occa sions extracts are reused. This is done to demonstrate that different co mprehension skills can be developed from he same piece of writing. Compr ehension skills are interdependent. As the student's ability to comprehe nd increases he/she will also be expected to interpret data. This includ es the interpretation of information found in charts, in tables and on m aps.
In this book your child will find:
- over 60 grad ed units of stimulating exercises and extracts
- awide variety of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer and se ntence completion
- extracts from many different literary and fac tual text types
- a lift-out answer section
