Click to enlargeShuffled Sentences 2
Longer, harder shuffled sentences under time.
- 20 tests in the book
- Graded from accessible to exam standard
- Full answer key, independently re-checked question by question
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How this book is used in our course
English books are worked in short daily sessions rather than one long sitting. For vocabulary, the child covers the meaning, says it aloud, then checks; words that are missed go on a card for the week. For comprehension and cloze, the child attempts the passage under a loose time, then marks against the key and rewrites any answer that lost marks.
Where it sits in the series
- Previous book in the series: Book 12, Cloze Passages
- Next book in the series: Book 14, Comprehension 2
What's inside English Mastery 13
Four real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 7 sample pages are in the viewer.
Twenty tests in ten levels, and the sentences are now nine or ten words long.
Shuffled Sentences 1 gave six words with one extra. This book gives up to ten, with longer sentences, tenses to check and pairs of near-identical words, shut and shuts, rose and raised, prepared and prepare, response and responses. The method is the same four steps. The difference is that the extra word now hides in plain sight, and a child has to build the whole sentence to find it.
"down idea shut new quickly shuts his was business." Shut or shuts? Only the built sentence tells you.
Nine questions, nine or ten words each. "they rose some shelter money for the raised homeless": rose or raised. "I my not prepared was guitar lesson for prepare": prepared or prepare. "crisis required aid the responses to response in was": response or responses. Every question at this level pairs a right form with a wrong one, which is exactly the trick CEM-style papers use, and the only defence is to build the sentence first.
Level 10: the sentences an independent school paper sets, with two words that could each be the extra one.
By Level 10 the vocabulary has climbed, the sentences are longer, and the extra word is often a perfectly good word that simply has no place in this particular sentence. A child who has worked up from Level 1 reads these in the time the exam gives; a child meeting the format cold spends the time deciding what is being asked.
Every answer gives the extra word and the rebuilt sentence.
The letter, the word, and the sentence it was not needed in, so a child who got it wrong sees the correct sentence immediately and understands why their word was the wrong one.
All 20 tests in the book follow the pattern shown here.
Other Year 4 & 5 books in English Mastery
English Rules 1 Testbook
Quizzes, tests and scorecards for every rule in English Rules 1.
Cloze Sentences 1
Fill-the-gap sentences that teach a child to read for sense, not just for words.
Shuffled Sentences 1
Rebuild scrambled sentences and spot the word that does not belong.
Comprehension 1
Retrieval and basic skills on fiction, poetry and non-fiction passages.