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Missing letters Practice book
Missing Letters Practice Book: For Future Stories (FSCE) style 11+ test preparation– Amazon
Missing Letters is a very important part of the new Reading School Future Stories (FSCE ) style 11+ tests. This book has been produced to get a feel for the question and answer set-up and to teach the strategy for this new style of test. The success of this book is the opportunity for repeated practice to learn strategies for tackling these questions coupled with varied and relevant vocabulary and spellings.
Possibly the hardest questions asked are those where you not only must know the word but also how to spell it! These are the `missing letters' questions where you must read the sentence, recognise the incomplete word and fill in the missing letters. This practice book allows you to focus on spelling and vocab but also on techniques such as prefixes and suffixes and letter pairs which can help your child figure out the missing word.
At the front of each book are tips and methods to teach students quick and effective ways to tackle this type of question.
This book provides an opportunity to practise this challenging part of the FSCE style test by offering:
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Over 40 quick tests
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Covering the most relevant vocabulary
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Current for 2026 11+ exams
Give your child plenty of practice in this difficult aspect of the English and verbal reasoning part of the FSCE style tests. It is the perfect tool to give your child confidence in 11+ verbal reasoning tests.
Need more practice? Try Book Two for even more practise and vocabulary or try Gulliford Tutors Word Connection Missing letters , Gulliford Tutors Synonyms and Antonyms Missing Letters books or the Gulliford Tutors Cloze practice tests.
MISSING LETTERS
WORD CONNECTIONS
PRACTICE BOOK
Missing Letters are a very important part of new Reading School Future Stories (FSCE ) style 11+ tests.There are many different ways of testing missing letters within the FSCE style papers.
This book covers Word Connections style questions. It has been produced to get a feel for the answer set-up and to teach the strategy for this new style of test. Thes are analogy pairs with the added difficulty of missing letters. They are possibly the hardest questions asked because you not only must figure out the connection in the first pair of words and replicate it in the second pair, but also know the word AND how to spell it!
The success of this book is the opportunity for repeated practice to learn strategies for tackling these questions coupled with varied and relevant vocabulary and spellings.
It allows you to focus on strategies for spotting the connection, working out the word and using prefixes, suffixes, letter pairs or phonics to obtain the correct word and spelling.
At the front of each book are tips and methods to teach students quick and effective ways to tackle this type of question.
This book provides an opportunity to practise this challenging part of the FSCE style test by offering:
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40 quick tests
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Covering various types of analogies and word connections
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Covering the most relevant vocabulary
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Current for 2026 11+ exams
Give your child plenty of practice in this difficult and varied aspect of missing letters sections. It is the perfect tool to give your child confidence in this 11+ verbal reasoning section of FSCE style tests.
Need more practice? Try the Gulliford Tutors Missing Letters ( which practises the most common sentence style questions ) or Gulliford Tutors Synonyms and Antonyms Missing Letters books or the Gulliford Tutors Cloze practice tests.
Synonyms and Antonyms Missing Letters: Practice for CEM style 11+ tests - Book One
This book is a wonderful tool for practising not only missing letters techniques for the FSCE and GL style tests but is a great way to combine missing letters, spelling and synonyms and antonym revision. The success of this book is the opportunity for repeated practice to learn strategies for tackling these questions coupled with varied and relevant vocabulary and spellings.
Synonyms and Antonyms have continued to be staple sections in each FSCE style test. This book combines practice for all these sections of the FSCE style test in one. FSCE papers constantly change rather than relying on a set formula. Missing letters has already been seen within individual sentences and whole CLOZE style texts and this book gives the opportunity to develop a number of skills to cope with a range of different formats.
This is a great resource to go alongside the Gulliford Tutors FSCE style missing letters practice books and practice papers.
In this book, you must not only know the synonym or antonym but also the correct spelling
This book provides an opportunity to practise this challenging part of the 11+ test by offering:
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Over 60 quick tests
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Covering the most relevant vocabulary
-
Current for 2026 11+ exams
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Book Two now available!
It is the perfect tool to give your child confidence in this 11+ verbal reasoning section of FSCE and GL style tests.
Need more practice? Try the Gulliford Tutors Missing Letters ( which practises the most common sentence style questions ) or Gulliford Tutors Word Connections Missing Letters book or the Gulliford Tutors Cloze practice tests.
Synonyms and Antonyms Missing Letters:
Practice for CEM style 11+ tests - Book Two
This book is the second in the series. With additional vocabulary, it gives even more practice of not only missing letters techniques for the FSCE and GL style tests but is a great way to combine missing letters, spelling and synonyms and antonym revision. The success of this book is the opportunity for repeated practice to learn strategies for tackling these questions coupled with varied and relevant vocabulary and spellings.
Synonyms and Antonyms have continued to be staple sections in each FSCE style test. This book combines practice for all these sections of the FSCE style test in one. FSCE papers constantly change rather than relying on a set formula. Missing letters has already been seen within individual sentences and whole CLOZE style texts and this book gives the opportunity to develop a number of skills to cope with a range of different formats.
This is a great resource to go alongside the Gulliford Tutors FSCE style missing letters practice books and practice papers.
In this book, you must not only know the synonym or antonym but also the correct spelling
This book provides an opportunity to practise this challenging part of the 11+ test by offering:
-
Over 60 quick tests
-
Covering the most relevant vocabulary
-
Current for 2026 11+ exams
-
Book One also available!
It is the perfect tool to give your child confidence in this 11+ verbal reasoning section of FSCE and GL style tests.
Need more practice? Try the Gulliford Tutors Missing Letters ( which practises the most common sentence style questions ) or Gulliford Tutors Word Connections Missing Letters book or the Gulliford Tutors Cloze practice tests.
CLOZE Practice Book: For CEM style 11+ Test Preparation
There are many different ways of testing missing letters within the FSCE and GL style papers : missing letters within sentences; within word connections or analogies ; and the traditional CLOZE texts. The CLOZE texts are whole fiction or non-fiction texts where certain words have letters missing. The skill is to read beyond the word needed, use inference to work out the word and then be able to spell it correctly.
The success of this book is the opportunity for repeated practice to learn strategies for tackling these questions coupled with varied and relevant vocabulary and spellings.
With over 40 tests covering the main CLOZE question types and most relevant vocabulary, this book is the perfect tool to give your child confidence in 11+ verbal reasoning sections of the tests.
CLOZE tests could be an important part of the new GL and Reading 11+ Future Stories (FSCE) style papers. Good vocabulary knowledge and strong spelling skills are needed for success at 11+. This book provides an opportunity to practise this challenging part of the 11+ test by giving you the chance to practise three types of CLOZE test:
• Fill in the missing three letters in a word( Partial words )– sentences have a word in them where a group of three letters have been omitted. However, the three letters must also make up a complete three letter word.You have to find this three letter word.
•Fill in the missing letters – letters in various words in a text passage have been omitted. Complete the word so that the passage makes sense.
• Word banks – some words have been omitted from a text passage and put in a word bank. Choose the correct word from the word bank to fill in the blanks so that the passage makes sense.
Over 40 interesting and varied short tests to help your child gain the confidence and knowledge needed for success at 11+.
Need more practice? Try the Gulliford Tutors Missing Letters ( which practises the most common sentence style questions ) or Gulliford Tutors Word Connections Missing Letters book or the Gulliford Tutors Synonyms and Antonyms Missing Letters practice tests.
