Reading and Writing Skills for Secondary Students

Reading and Writing Skills contains many and varied challenging exercises providing systematic practice in:

• vocabulary
• punctuation
• essential grammar
• proof reading
• comprehension

They are suitable for individual or group use, in the classroom or at home.

Answers are provided.

Contents

• Sentence patterns
• Botany Bay
• Using better words than 'got' and   'get'
• How Gotham Received Its Name
• Sentence patterns 2
• Switzerland
• Using other words besides 'nice',   'big' and 'small'
• Cloze passage 1
• Present participles that are sounds
• The Queen and the Flowers
• Anagrams 1
• Cloze passage 2
• Using better words than 'go' and   'went'
• The Day Is Done Crazy sentences
• Make your own musical instrument
• Common errors using verbs
• Proofreading 1
• Making words 1
• Little Giffen Check your pronouns
• The Birth of the Telephone Anagrams
• Cloze passage
• Using better adjectives
• Proofreading 2
• Using better verbs
• Clancy of the Overflow
• Match the rhyming word
• Seeing With Your Eyes Shut
• Sentence patterns 3
• The Death of Robin Hood
• Anagrams 3
• Lord Tennyson Using prepositions correctly
• Cloze passage 4
• Pronouncing words
• Proofreading 3
• Making words 2
• The Bronte Sisters
• Using metaphors
Daedalus and His Son Icarus
• Common errors using verbs 2
• The Lonely Woman of Morocco
• Making your writing concise
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Connecting sentences.
• Beauty Under the Sea
• Using other words besides 'said'
• Can you file correctly?.
• Words that can cause confusion 1
• Proofreading 4
• Irregular words
• The Land of Great Delight
• Using commas.
• Shakespeare's language
• Words that can cause confusion 2
• The Earth's Satellite
• Phrases should be related to   clauses
• Large Snakes
• Abbreviations
• More about Shakespeare
• Words that can cause confusion 3
• A Famous Pirate
• Avoiding euphemisms
• The First Doctors
• Non-English expressions 1
• Buddha
• Avoiding tautology
• John Milton
• Complete the word
• Cloze passage 5
• Maintaining consistency of tense
• Proofreading 5
• Non-English expressions 2
• Archimedes
• Active and passive voice
• The Cargo of Wheat
• Planet Earth.
• The Lights of Cobb & Co
• Julius Caesar
• The Terrible Face
• They Discovered Australia
• The Wreck of the Hesperus