Click to enlargeCloze Sentences 2
Advanced cloze sentences drawing on the Vocabulary 2 word list.
- 30 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 14, Comprehension 2
- Next book in the series: Book 16, Vocabulary 3 – Quest Exams
What's inside English Mastery 15
Four real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 9 sample pages are in the viewer.
Thirty cloze tests in ten levels, A, B and C at each, built on the Vocabulary 2 word list.
Cloze Sentences 1 taught a child to read for the gap. This book makes the gap harder: the six words are ambitious, several look as if they could fit, and only one fits perfectly. Twenty-four questions per test in blocks of six, every word used once per block. By Level 10 the words are conflagration, dilapidated and hypocritical.
Five things decide the answer when several words look right: word class, precise meaning, connotation, collocation and elimination.
The guide is honest about what changes at this level: the options are no longer one obvious word and five silly ones. A child has to ask what the word means exactly, whether it carries the right feeling, and whether it naturally sits next to the words around it. The tip on blocks of six is the exam technique: a word you are sure belongs to an earlier question is unlikely to be the answer again.
Abandon, aggravate, coherence, address, barren, asset: six words, six sentences, each used once.
"Scratching a nettle sting will only ____ it and make the itching even worse." "Mrs Patel said that Sam’s story lacked ____ because the events jumped about in a confusing order." Level 1 already uses words a Year 4 child will not meet in a school reading book, and every sentence carries the clue that proves the answer.
Every answer, letter and word, for all thirty tests.
Laid out by question so a child marks their own test in a minute: "1 C abandon, 2 F aggravate, 3 E coherence". The wrong words go straight back to the vocabulary book that evening.
All 30 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.