Excel Advanced Skills - Advanced English Year 3

• Reading and comprehension questions with a focus on higher-level inferring and evaluative questions that will challenge students to think critically

• Spelling and vocabulary questions with a focus on advanced work covering topics such as misspelt words, word families, synonyms, definitions and antonyms

• Grammar and punctuation questions with a focus on advanced work on topics such as noun groups, verb groups, adverbials and cohesion

• Texts in context—this extension unit provides a deeper analysis and evaluation of the language choices authors make and the ways that readers make meaning from texts. It focuses on advanced work by comparing purpose and audience, and by examining structural features such as sequencing and paragraphing of texts

• Four NAPLAN-style tests

• Answers to all questions

Author: Donna Gibbs