Click to enlargeCloze Sentences 1
Fill-the-gap sentences that teach a child to read for sense, not just for words.
- 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 4, English Rules 1 Testbook
- Next book in the series: Book 6, Shuffled Sentences 1
What's inside English Mastery 5
Five real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 9 sample pages are in the viewer.
Twenty cloze tests in ten levels, from Year 4 vocabulary to the words an independent school expects.
One technique guide, then tests 1A to 10B, ten questions each, six options per gap. Level 1 uses words like harvest, fragile and mischief. Level 10 uses inaugural, destitute, palaeontology and liable. The format never changes; the vocabulary climbs. That is how a child goes from guessing the gap to reading for it.
Think like a detective: the clues are in the sentence, often after the gap.
Step 1, read to the full stop, never stop at the gap. Step 2, word class clues in a table: after a, an or the and before a noun, the gap needs an adjective; after to, will or can, a verb. Step 3, meaning clues: because, but and such as tell you whether the word explains, opposes or exemplifies. Step 4, collocation: heavy rain, not strong rain. The tip about a and an alone removes a wrong answer in half the questions.
Ten sentences, the same six words offered each time: the child has to find the one word each sentence needs.
Ancient, harvest, fragile, gallop, wander, mischief rotate through six sentences; then nimble, tremble, glimpse, devour, triumph, cautious. "Please wrap Gran’s new glass vase carefully, because it is ____ and will break if it is dropped." The clue after the gap gives it away, if the child has read that far. This is the format of the GL and CEM cloze sections, at the level a Year 4 child can start on.
Level 10: imitate, inaugural, besieged, destitute, palaeontology.
"The new chess club held its ____ meeting last Friday; it was the first of many." "The kind baker gave free bread to ____ families who had no money at all." "That old ladder is ____ to wobble if you climb too high." Every one of these words is in Vocabulary 1, and every one has been seen in a different sentence there. This is the test that proves the words have been learnt, not memorised.
Every answer, letter and word, for all twenty tests.
Marked in a minute, scored on the chart, and the wrong words go back to the vocabulary book. The answer gives the word as well as the letter, so a child can see not just that D was right but why devour was the only word that fitted "the hungry children will ____ the whole pizza".
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.
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.
English Rules 2 Testbook
Quizzes, tests and scorecards for every rule in English Rules 2.