Click to enlargeShuffled Sentences 1
Rebuild scrambled sentences and spot the word that does not belong.
- 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 5, Cloze Sentences 1
- Next book in the series: Book 7, Comprehension 1
What's inside English Mastery 6
Four real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 8 sample pages are in the viewer.
Twenty shuffled sentence tests in ten levels: the question type most children have never seen before the exam.
Six words in a jumbled order; five of them make a sentence; one is the odd one out. It looks like a puzzle and it is actually a grammar test: subject, verb, tense, agreement, prepositions. CEM-style papers use it heavily, and children who meet it first on the day lose five minutes working out what is being asked. This book gives them twenty tests of practice, from easy to the hardest the exam sets.
Find the subject and the verb, then build the sentence before you choose the extra word.
Four steps: find the subject and verb; look for the word that does not fit; build the sentence; check every word is used once. The worked example, "to sister swim my learnt sang", shows why the first strange-looking word is not always the answer: sang looks fine until the sentence is built. The Common mistake box says it plainly: words such as the, of or was look ordinary but are often the extra word. Always build the full sentence first.
"was nice weather pour the today." Which word is not needed?
Eight questions per test, six words each, answer by letter. "the after we of baby looked." "chased tail the its ran puppy." "mystery solved complete detective the the." At Level 1 the extra word is usually a second verb or a stray preposition, and a child who follows the four steps finds it every time. The score box at the bottom is out of 8, and the three-attempt chart tracks the re-tries.
Every answer gives the extra word and the sentence it was not needed in.
"1. D (pour) – The weather was nice today." "7. C (complete) – The detective solved the mystery." A child who got it wrong sees the correct sentence immediately, which is the only way to understand why their word was the wrong one. Twenty tests, 160 questions, every one answered this way.
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.
Cloze Sentences 1
Fill-the-gap sentences that teach a child to read for sense, not just for words.
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.