Designed to help students develop their comprehension skills and prepare for the NSW Opportunity Class Test
In this book, designed for Year 4, students will tackle eight sample tests of the new format Reading paper for the NSW Opportunity Class Placement Test. The tests feature a range of original, challenging and engaging texts from a wide variety of genres. Students will practise applying their higher order comprehension skills, including summarising, synthesising, comparing, analysing, interpreting inferred and implied meaning, and understanding the writer’s purpose and craft.
An introduction provides tips on how to approach the questions and what to look out for. This is followed by eight practice papers, each containing 25 advanced comprehension questions. The end of the book contains detailed explanations for each question so that students can carefully review and understand their mistakes.
Each paper is made up of four parts:
- one long extract (or two sometimes shorter ones): six questions
- a poem: five questions
- a non-fiction cloze passage: six questions
- a set of four short extracts linked by a common theme: eight questions
Contents
- Practice Reading Paper 1
- Practice Reading Paper 2
- Practice Reading Paper 3
- Practice Reading Paper 4
- Practice Reading Paper 5
- Practice Reading Paper 6
- Practice Reading Paper 7
- Practice Reading Paper 8
- Answers with explanations
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