The Excel Basic Reading Skills series aims to help primary-a ged children with reading and comprehension using short pieces of writin g. Each page comprises a self-contained, one-page exercise, ensuring chi ldren only need to focus on one simple activity at a time. In today's wo rld, most children probably read less than their parents or grandparents did at the same age. Distractions such as television and video games ta ke up many hours that could be spent in reading. To excel in reading req uires plenty of practice.

In this third book in the series, E xcel Basic Skills: Basic Reading Skills Years 5–6, the activi ties cover a wide range of reading skills such as:

• basic co mprehension of a text
• predicting words in a story
• reco gnising different 'voices' in a text
• finding words that are wro ng
• sorting different kinds of words
• fun activities, su ch as anagram puzzles and simple crosswords are also included