VR Techniques Foundations

Every question type met once, gently, with vocabulary drawn from English Mastery Vocabulary 1.

Written forYear 4, Term 1

FormatOnline reader, any device. Child works in an exercise book alongside.

£29 one child · open until the end of exam season

All 32 GL question types, three or four a week
A technique guide for every type, with worked examples and the common mistake
15 laddered questions per type
Two 32-question mixed checks
Answer key with working, a progress chart and a 12-week plan

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How this book is used in our course

Three or four question types a week, four short sessions. Read the guide and its worked examples, do the 15 questions, mark them together. Weeks 11 and 12 are two mixed checks with one question of every type.

Where it sits in the series

This is the first book in the series.
Next book in the series: Book 2, VR Codes & Sequences

Look inside

What's inside VR Mastery 1

Five real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 11 sample pages are in the viewer.

12-Week Plan

All 32 GL question types in one term, three or four a week.

Alphabet skills, letter codes, number puzzles, word meanings, word groups, building words, hidden words, sentences and logic. Four short sessions a week: read the guide and its examples, do the 15 questions, mark them together. By Week 10 your child has met every type the verbal reasoning paper can set, and Weeks 11 and 12 check it all.

Technique · Alphabet Fluency

A method for every type, and the mistake to avoid printed right beside it.

Write A = 1 to Z = 26 on scrap paper before you start. Count forwards for "after", backwards for "before". For the reversed alphabet, a letter and its partner always add up to 27. The Watch-out box names the mark children lose most: counting the letter they start on, so "3 after D" becomes F instead of G.

Technique · Closest in Meaning

One word from each group, tested in the same sentence.

Take the first word in the first group and try it against every word in the second. The trap is two words that go together, like cup and saucer, but do not mean the same thing. The other lost mark is marking only one word, so the guide says it plainly: you must mark two.

Mixed Check A

32 questions, 30 minutes, one of every type.

Weeks 11 and 12 are two Mixed Checks. The question type changes every time, the way it does in the real paper, so your child learns to read every instruction. Talk through each mistake after Check A, then sit Check B and compare the two scores.

Answers with working

Every answer shows the working, so a parent can explain it without knowing VR.

"Mirror pairs add to 27: R(18) ↔ I(9)." "K = 11, U = 21; halfway = 16 = P." The working turns a wrong answer into a lesson in one line, and the same method fixes the next question of that type.

£29 one child · open until the end of exam season

All 32 question types in the book follow the pattern shown here.

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