English Assessment Books

[janet88]

sleepy:

teh_oh:

Hi sleepy,
Are you able to answer to the queries to those questions that your child got wrong (especially grammar)? I find it tedious because most of the time I made the same mistakes as my child. :oops:

She will read the examples before attempting. So far so good le, hardly ask me any questions. If occasionally still confused, I have an old grammar guide book (yellowish & out of print) and I will direct her to the relevant section to read up. I can't explain to her since I'm confused too. I think my grammar is worst than her. Luckily my vocab is better than her. So we sort of make up for each other's weakness.

However, my dd is dissatisfied with her SA1 result & has requested for English tuition. I'm being 'fired' as her tutor

A good friend advised me to do some comprehension cloze myself...1) to get a feel what it is like as a 'student' 2) allow the child to know how we think as adult. After getting it done, my son marked it and asked me why I filled in those words. Fortunately, I didn't do too badly. We asked each other why those words were used and well, it was good bonding time.

Son asked for EL tuition...after getting a borderline pass, he got worried. So signed him up for class at this centre after a trial lesson. However, I am still his backup tutor...which is less stressful.

[teh_oh]

sleepy:

teh_oh:

Hi sleepy,
Are you able to answer to the queries to those questions that your child got wrong (especially grammar)? I find it tedious because most of the time I made the same mistakes as my child. :oops:

She will read the examples before attempting. So far so good le, hardly ask me any questions. If occasionally still confused, I have an old grammar guide book (yellowish & out of print) and I will direct her to the relevant section to read up. I can't explain to her since I'm confused too. I think my grammar is worst than her. Luckily my vocab is better than her. So we sort of make up for each other's weakness.

However, my dd is dissatisfied with her SA1 result & has requested for English tuition. I'm being 'fired' as her tutor

Hi sleepy,
I think my grammar is worse than my child too. At times, when I tried to explain to him why the answer key is the correct one, unconvinced, he would ask if what I said is a fact or only my own opinion or only based on answer key.
I just bought My Pals are here Grammar Guide. Hope it will be useful.

[janet88]

My son is doing this title now "Success in Comprehension" (MC). What I like is the vocab section, which requires him to check up the meaning. Hope it will help in the Vocab cloze (synonyms).

[Champion]

During this school holidays ( :yikes: coming to the end lioa.....), I focus more on Comprehension with DD1. Somehow or rather she prefers to do the Learners Publishing Pte Ltd one compares with the Success in Comprehension by Marshall C. :scratchhead: http://i53.tinypic.com/2wcpr2q.jpg\"> http://i56.tinypic.com/345zh43.jpg\">

[janet88]

Champion:

During this school holidays ( :yikes: coming to the end lioa.....), I focus more on Comprehension with DD1. Somehow or rather she prefers to do the Learners Publishing Pte Ltd one compares with the Success in Comprehension by Marshall C. :scratchhead: http://i53.tinypic.com/2wcpr2q.jpg\"> http://i56.tinypic.com/345zh43.jpg\">

I bought Learners Comprehension for the past 3 years. Son was surprised I didn't do so last year. Since it has 'graphic stimulus' and cloze, I decided to get Success in Comprehension instead. Learners (Rosemary Allen) comprehension passage not easy. Headache getting assessment...esp when there are 101 titles out there.

[Champion]

Yea, Janet agrees - really headache and nowadays I keep having migraine too! :sick: ..


My DD1 is very enthusiastic on the cloze passage part so I guess probably that is one of the \"motivational factor\" that makes her choose this book over the Success in Comprehension by M.C. ...Hope I don't need to K.I.V. the M.C. book for my DD2 - that will be 3 years later lioa! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[janet88]

Champion:

Yea, Janet agrees - really headache and nowadays I keep having migraine too! :sick: ..


My DD1 is very enthusiastic on the cloze passage part so I guess probably that is one of the \"motivational factor\" that makes her choose this book over the Success in Comprehension by M.C. ...Hope I don't need to K.I.V. the M.C. book for my DD2 - that will be 3 years later lioa! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

It's ironic, isn't it ??? Not many titles...we have headache getting assessment...too many publishers/authors, we also have headaches or worse migraines. My son is my 'guinea pig' in terms of assessment. He is more interested to get Synthesis done...last on the list is Comprehension OE. Don't worry, English assessment books do not have expiry dates.

[janet88]

Sorry. Duplicate

[Champion]

Janet,

check with you - did you get the P5 Mastering Comprehension by EPH, author Geetha Menon?

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I saw the P3 one written by Leanna Teoh - am tempted but did not buy eventually cos there are still many EL assessment books staring at me than at DD1 at the moment!
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[plum-cake]

Hi Champion, P3 Mastering Cloze is by Geetha Menon (one of the auther). I am not sure abt P3 comprehension.