Developing Your Comprehension Skills

Book excerpt: Excel Developing Your Comprehension Skills aims to help Year s 7-10 students become more confident and skilled readers. It provides a range of activities using interesting and contemporary texts to give st udents plenty of practise in reading and interpreting different kinds of texts. In Excel Developing Your Comprehension Skills Years 7-1 0 you will find: comprehensive, accessible information on r eading skills for Years 7-10 students two separate sections: Pa rt One covers the key reading skills, while Part Two enables students to practice these skills with different texts plenty of exercises and tasks to ensure understanding of each new idea a wide rang e of interesting sample texts to help students read and understand diffe rent kinds of writing a wide variety of topics to cover a range of reader interests youth issues, music, science, current affa irs, film, sport, the environment and the future a detailed ans wer section to help explain the answers Author: Kristine Brown