Description
Book SynopsisSolid and rigorous practice material in reading and comprehension for children to work on throughout the year, and in preparation for pre-tests and 11 Plus Common Entrance exams.
Give pupils the best chance of success in Pre-Tests and 11 plus exams with varied and thorough reading and comprehension exercises. This write-in workbook for pupils aged 9-11 provides 25 different passages with questions, tips and advice, plus pull-out answers.
- Appreciate how writers use language to create effects
- Learn the meaning of unfamiliar words in context and grow vocabulary
- Write accurate and detailed responses to questions about reading
Also covers: reading for meaning, close reading, deduction, understanding implication and nuance.
Also available from Galore Park:
- Writing Workbook Age 9-11
- Spelling & Vocabulary Workbook Age 9-11
- Grammar & Punctuation Workbook Age 9-11
Table of Contents
- 1: Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck)
- 2: The Lesson (Edward Lucie-Smith)
- 3: The Hunchback in the Park (Dylan Thomas)
- 4: The Way through the Woods (Rudyard Kipling)
- 5: Afternoon in the School, The Last Lesson (D.H. Lawrence)
- 6: Captain Cook (Susan Elkin)
- 7: The human ear (susan Elkin)
- 8: Nurse Edith Cavell (Susan Elkin)
- 9: A Street Cat Named Bob (James Bowen)
- 10: Ghandi (Amy Pastan)
- 11: Tinder (Sally Gardner)
- 12: Oliver! (Nicola Klein)
- 13: Wind and rain (Sara Smyth)
- 14: Please Miss We're Boys (Susan Elkin)
- 15: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea (Michael Morpurgo)
- 16: Hamlet (Leon Garfield)
- 17: The good wife and the bad husband (Susan Elkin)
- 18: Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell)
- 19: Watching the Tree (Adeline Yen Mah)
- 20: Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
- 21: The Cataract of Lodore (Robert Southey)
- 22: Adders (Susan Elkin)
- 23: The Voices at the Window
- 24: The Child's Elephant (Rachel Campbell-Johnston)
- 25: The Morning Gift (Eva Ibbotson)
