Skills Up on Reading Comprehension is a series of workbooks written in accordance with the latest English Language Curriculum Guide (Primary 1-6), published by the Hong Kong Curriculum Development Council. This series consists of 6 books which target Primary 1 to 6 students.

Key features include:

Reading skills

• Essential Reading Skills and Text Type Analysis provide an overview of essential reading skills covered in the book.
• Skills Focus provides tips on reading skills.
• Text Type gives the text type: story, poem poster, play.
• Checkpoint provides short tests to check students’ progress.
• Answering Tips provide extra tips on locating the answers in the text. P4-P6 contains Help You Write, which helps students give clear answers to questions.

Word building

• Word Preview pre-teaches useful words relating to the theme and the reading text.
• Word Bank provides word building strategies to strengthen students’ abilities to understand unfamiliar words.
• Vocabulary List offers theme-based words to consolidate vocabulary learning.