The Excel Advanced Skills: Spelling and Vocabulary Workbook Year 5 is about words: what they mean and how to spell them. The best way to learn new spellings is the LOOK-SAY-COVER-WRITE-CHECK method. It gives you strategies to learn new words and lots of practice in using these strategies. By the end of the book, you’ll feel more confident attempting and learning new spellings and working out the meanings of new words.

The Excel 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 students will find:

• twenty self-contained units of work, each with a different theme
• topic spelling lists with twenty words
• spelling list focusing on common patterns
• killer word and tips to remember them
• practical spelling strategies
• activities to practise and improve spelling
• strategies to expand students’ knowledge about words and their meaning meanings, and a variety of practical activities
• activities that encourage students to use context when reading to develop their word power
• engaging and relevant writing tasks
• four comprehensive spelling review units
• answers to all questions