• Victoria University

• EN MISC

 The Excel Basic Skills Workbook series aims to build and reinforce basic skills in reading, comprehension and mathematics. The series has eight English and Mathematics core books, one for each of the school years Foundation to Year 7. These are supported by teaching books, which can be used if the student needs help in a particular area of study. The structure of this book This book has 30 carefully sequenced double-page units. Each unit has work on Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability in Maths, and Reading and Comprehension, Spelling and Vocabulary, and Grammar and Punctuation in English. The student’s competence in each of the 30 units can be recorded on the marking grid on pages 5 and 7. There are four end-of-term reviews. These are referred to as Tests 1 to 4. They assess the student’s understanding of work covered during each term. How to use this book It is recommended that students complete each unit in the sequence provided because the knowledge and understanding developed in each unit is consolidated and practised in subsequent units. The workbook can be used to cover core classroom work. It can also be used to provide homework and consolidation activities. All units are written so that particular questions deal with the same areas of learning in each unit. For example, question 1 is always on Number (addition) and question 11 is always on Measurement (time), and so on. Similarly in the English units question 1 is always on Reading and Comprehension, and question 14 is always on Punctuation. Question formatting is repeated throughout the workbook to support familiarity so that students can more readily deal with the Mathematics and English content. The marking grid (see the examples on pages 4 and 6) is an easy-to-use tool for recording each student’s progress. If you find that certain questions are repeatedly causing difficulties and errors, then there is a specific Excel Basic/Advanced Skills Workbook to help the student fully revise that topic. These are the teaching books of the series; they will take the student through the topic step by step. The use of illustrations and diagrams, practice questions, and a straightforward and simple approach will make some of the most common problem areas of Eng