LEARNING+ ENGLISH COMPREHENSION SKILLS Book 1

series is written to help students develop important comprehension skills that will lay the foundation for a better understanding of comprehension passages and the ability to answer literal and inferential questions. Grade Level / Age Group: Primary levels 1 to 6 (7 – 12 years) Learning Objective: To help students master reading comprehension skills through essential strategies. Unique Selling Advantages (USA): • Uses 7 essential comprehension strategies to provide scaffolding to enable students to master reading comprehension; • Purposeful learning through systematic building up of skills: 1. Sequencing events; 2. Finding the main idea; 3. Using contextual clue; 4. Drawing conclusions; 5. Predicting outcomes; 6. Making inferences; 7. Identifying facts and opinions; • Adopts the spiral learning method so a student learns more about each strategy as he/she progresses through the levels, expanding in knowledge and improving application 190mm x 260mm 180 Dorcas Ang