Solid 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

This book is aimed at children in primary school. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 88 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hodder Education .

Susan Elkin is an educational journalist and former secondary school teacher.

This book has the following chapters:

• 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)