Module 1: Activity 2

Module 1: Activity 2

Complete Exercise #5 on p. 39 by reading the passage and answering questions a-g that follow it.

A.      What is corandic?

            A croandic is an emruient grof with many fribs; it granks from corite.

B. What does corandic grank from?

Corandic granks from corite, an olg which cargs like lange.

C.      How do garkers excarp the tarances from the corite?

Garkers excarp by glarcking the corite and starping it in tranker-clarped storbs.

D.     What does the slorp finally frast?

The slorp is garped through several other corusces, and the slorp frasts a pragety, blickant crankle and coranda.

E.      What is coranda?

Coranda is a cargurt, grinkling corandic and borigen.

F.      How is the corandic nacerated from the borigen?

The corandic is nacerated from the borigen by means of loracity.

G.      What do the garkers finally thrap?

The garkers finally thrap a glick, bracht, glupous grapant, corandic, which granks in many starps.

 

How is it that you are able to answer such questions? What does this experience suggest about the kinds of comprehension questions found in workbooks and on standardized tests?

As a reader we use the syntactic cues like the function of the words, the ending sounds in the words, and word order to read the passage. As we read the passage and notice familiar words, letter combinations, word order or word combinations, we make connections from the prior text to our prior knowledge.  We recognize the familiar patterns within the order that helps us understand what we are reading.

The king of comprehension questions that are found in workbooks and on standardized test are questions that when read after a reading are difficult for the child to understand. IF a child reads the questions first, he/she will connect to not only what might be going on in the passage, but they develop a prior knowledge and recognize familiar words that are in the questions and inside of the passage. It suggest that they read the questions first and then read the passage. The answers come directly from the text and it can be a strong test strategy for students.