Advanced Skills Grammar and Punctuation Workbook Year 2

This book explains the rules of grammar and punctuation that you need for Year 2. Each unit focuses on two or more grammar rules. Before each rule is explained, there is a text that lets you see how the rule works in everyday writing. At the end of each unit there is also a short NAPLAN-style test that lets you see how well you have understood the grammar rules. 

Advanced Skills Reading and Comprehension Workbook Year 2

This book is designed to help students improve their reading comprehension skills and become more competent, reflective and critical readers. It provides a step-by-step method of answering different types of comprehension questions, including those in standardised tests such as NAPLAN. Students are taught the strategies to read effectively. It caters for students with different reading ages by sequencing the texts from easy to more difficult within each chapter and section; and by ordering the type of question dealt with from easy to more difficult. 

Advanced Skills Grammar and Punctuation Workbook Year 5

This book is part of the New Excel Advanced Skills series, which provides students with more challenging extension work in grammar and punctuation. This book helps primary school students improve their grammar and punctuation in English and in other subjects.

This book has been specifically written for the year 5 Australian curriculum English course and it is used for EQDemic School year 4 teaching. 

Advanced Skills Reading and Comprehension Workbook Year 5

The Excel Advanced Skills Reading and Comprehension Workbook Year 4 will help students improve their reading and comprehension—in English and in other subjects—and become more competent, reflective and critical readers.

The first part of the book focuses on reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, visualising, connecting, predicting, inferring, monitoring and judging (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 questions.

This book has been specifically written for the year 5 Australian curriculum English course and it is used for EQDemic School year 4 teaching. 

Grammar and Punctuation Workbook Year 7-8

This book has been specifically designed to teach you the essential grammar and punctuation terms, rules and conventions for the Year 7 and 8 Australian Curriculum English course. Knowing more about the grammar of English and about the way we use punctuation will help you develop into a good writer. 

Each chapter has two sections: a grammar section and a punctuation section. Each section begins with a sample text and is followed by a boxed explanation of the grammar or punctuation points highlighted in the text. 

Developing Your Comprehension Skills Year 7-8

This book aims to help Years 7-10 students become more confident and skilled readers. It provides a range of activities using interesting and contemporary texts to give students plenty of practise in reading and interpreting different kinds of texts. In Excel Developing Your Comprehension Skills Years 7-10 you will find:

• comprehensive, accessible information on reading skills for Years 7-10 students;
• two separate sections: Part 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 range of interesting sample texts to help students read and understand different kinds of writing;
• a wide variety of topics to cover a range of reader interests;
• youth issues, music, science, current affairs, film, sport, the environment and the future;
• a detailed answer section to help explain the answers.