"This book is part of the Excel Advanced Skills series, which provides students with more challenging extension work in spelling and vocabulary. The Excel Advanced Skills series of Spelling and Vocabulary Workbooks for Years 3-6 will help primary school students improve their spelling and vocabulary - in English and in other subjects. Each unit has a different theme and focuses on a set of work dealing with words: what they mean and how to spell them. All activities are designed to encourage students to think about and enjoy language, and to give them meaningful practice in using it. 

In this book you will find:

• Fifteen self-contained units of work, each with a different theme
• Topic spelling lists with eighteen words
• Spelling lists focusing on common patterns
• 'Tricky words' and tips to remember them
• Practical spelling strategies
• Activities to practise and improve spelling
• Strategies to expand students' knowledge of words and their meanings, and a variety of practice activities
• Activities which encourage students to use context when reading to develop their word power
• Engaging and relevant writing tasks
• Three comprehensive spelling review units
• Answers to all questions