Title: The Gold Cadillac Author: Mildred D. Taylor Publisher and Publication Date: The Penguin Group‚ 1998 First published in the United States of America by Dial Books for Young Readers‚ 1987 Setting: The story took place in the City of Toledo Ohio at the family’s home and in the route to the rural South‚ Mississippi. Main Characters: Lois‚ Wilma‚ Mom‚ Dad Plot Summary: This story is about a family who got a new car‚ a Cadillac. They decided to take a trip in the new car. They
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Third Level “C” Reading Comprehension Quiz Name: ……………………………………………………………………..Date: ……………….. Score: …………….. Mark: ………………………. Objective: Read comprehensively and answer questions Read the text and answer the following questions. Dear readers‚ I’m one of those guys who have “the quite normal” problem: I’m in love with a girl‚ but I don’t know what to do. I have already had a crush on some girls‚ never with any success‚ but this is something different. My problem is actually that I’m too cowardly
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Comprehension of Prisoners without Trial Roger Daniels’ book Prisoners without Trial is another book that describes the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. This piece discusses about the background that led up to the internment‚ the internment itself‚ and what happened afterwards. The internment and relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II was an injustice prompted by political and racial motivations. The author’s purpose of this volume is to discuss the story in
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The song I have chosen for this project is David Bowie’s salutation to Glitter Rock (Glam Rock)‚ “Rebel Rebel”‚ released on the 1974 album “Diamond Dogs”. This essay aims to give some observations into the phonic elements of the song and how these are pertinent to the social‚ economic and technological context in which it was produced and released‚ underlining the its connection with its musical genre. David Bowie is a British rock personality‚ well renowned for his chameleon-like artistic transformations
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1. READING OUTCOME: COMPREHENSION PROCESS WORK: Demonstrate your understanding of the novel by answering the following questions in your journal. Where possible support your ideas with references from the text. Include page numbers for future use. 1. How is the use of the pseudonym ‘Afriend’ ironic? 2. What is a blog page? 3. Avalon is overwhelmed by the content of the email from A Friend‚ what does this suggest about her character? 4. How is the chapter title ‘The A-Bomb’ significant
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Response: The lesson utilizes five reading comprehension strategies and encourages students to develop good reading habits. 1. 2. What are some of the specific comprehension strategies that you used in this lesson‚ and why did you choose them? Response: Cause and effect‚ personal evaluation‚ and using context clues: each of these strategies encourage readers to think beyond the words. 1. 3. How do you monitor your students’ comprehension‚ both formally and informally? Response:
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Passage 1 It is well known that the building development company Cityspace wants to knock down the existing seafront sports club in Layton and replace it with a leisure centre that will consist of a multi-screen cinema‚ restaurants and an entertainment centre. But a local action group has promised to fight the £30 million redevelopment of the sports club‚ which has provided family facilities for over 25 years. The action group was set up three weeks after the project was announced. Members of
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Grade Level(s) | K-3 | When? | Literary Focus | Before | Fluency | During | Comprehension | After | Vocabulary | | Writing | | Oral Language | Q.A.R. (Question-Answer-Relationships) Question-Answer Relationships‚ or QAR‚ is a reading comprehension strategy developed to aid in the approach that students take when reading texts and answering questions about that text. Students learn to categorize types of questions which in turn help them know where to find information.
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complex cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning (reading comprehension). It is a means of language acquisition‚ of communication‚ and of sharing information and ideas. Like all language‚ it is a complex interaction between the text and the reader which is shaped by the reader’s prior knowledge‚ experiences‚ attitude‚ and language community which is culturally and socially situated. Reading is all about information. It’s not about the number of words you read‚ but the amount
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The factors that contribute to the comprehension of text. Text comprehension is a complex task that involves many different cognitive skills and processes. Understanding and comprehending information from text is a process that is impacted by the reader and the text. The reader must have the ability to understand the meaning of individual words and phrases‚ or constructing meaning from the text as a whole. This interacts with the prior knowledge‚ interest‚ and motivations that the reader brings
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