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Learning express Reading Comprehension Success 3rd Edition
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ometimes in your reading, you come across words or phrases that are unfamiliar ... you’re taking a standardized test, you’ll
probably have to answer reading comprehension ques-
tions that ask about the facts in a reading passage.
These facts are not always easy to determine, especially
if ... adult-like manner.
Summary
Active reading is the first essential step to comprehen-
sion. Why? Because active reading forces you to really
see what you’re reading, to look closely at what’s there.
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8th Grade Reading Comprehension Success doc
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... GRADE READING COMPREHENSION SUCCESS–
8TH GRADE
READING COMPREHENSION
SUCCESS
Elizabeth Chesla
L EARNINGE XPRESS S KILL B UILDERS
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One of the most common questions on reading com-
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Success_1 pot
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... In other words, read carefully and actively.
The five lessons that follow cover the basics of reading comprehension. By the end
of this section, you should be able to:
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Find the basic facts in ... desire.
d. to guess.
Pretest
The pretest consists of a series of reading passages with questions that follow to test your comprehension.
Cultural Center Adds Classes for Young Adults
The Allendale ... which make a point but
don’t invite a direct answer
c. metaphors and other figurative language
d. contrast between the parents’ typical reactions
3. According to Leah Martin, what was the direct
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Success_2 docx
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Summary
Active reading is the first essential step to comprehen-
sion. Why? Because active reading forces you to really
see what you’re reading, to look closely at what’s there.
Like ... notoriety. Now you can take a pretty good
guess at the meaning of obscure.
Remember, good reading is active reading. Did you mark up the passage? If so, it may have looked something
like this:
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LESSON
Getting the
Essential
Information
LESSON SUMMARY
The first step in increasing your reading comprehension is to learn how
to get the basic information. Like a good detective, start with...
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Success_3 pot
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... paragraph with a clear topic
sentence, like: “I’ve learned several reading strategies since Lesson 1” or “I’ve learned that reading com-
prehension isn’t as difficult as I thought.” Then, write ... opinions.
Practice
In this lesson, you will sharpen your reading compre-
hension skills by using all of these strategies at once.
This will become more natural to you as your reading
skills develop.
Practice Passage ... detective must do all
these things at the same time. Similarly, reading really can’t be broken down into these separate tasks. Read-
ing comprehension comes from employing all these strategies simultaneously....
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Success_4 docx
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... improve your overall reading
comprehension so you’ll begin to understand more
of what you read. In addition, reading more will
improve your vocabulary and increase your reading
speed.
Example: ... Read More Often
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It will improve your vocabulary.
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It will improve your reading comprehension.
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It will increase your reading speed.
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It will broaden your understanding of yourself and
others.
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It ... 51
Structure
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ow that you’ve covered the basics, you can begin to focus on one specific
reading comprehension strategy: structure. How do writers organize their
ideas?
You might want to think...
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Success_6 doc
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... organizational strategies does this
writer use?
a. chronological order
b. order of importance
c. compare and contrast
d. cause and effect
6. The author organizes his ideas in order of
a. decreasing importance ... secret?
His powers of observation.
You may recall that the introduction to this book talked about active reading. As an active reader, you should
have been marking up the passages you’ve read in this book:...
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Success_8 docx
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... or inference.
This lesson focuses on two specific types of implication: reading between the lines to deter-
mine cause and reading between the lines to predict effects.
In case you need a reminder: ... player is unable to be objective.
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Summary
In reading, particularly in reading literature, as well as
in real life, you often have to figure out what the causes
of ... provided to get
you started.
Your Observations:
Example: I noticed that Coach Lerner’s voice is
compared to a foghorn.
3. Which of the following best expresses the
implied message of the passage?
a....
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Success_9 ppt
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... (Mark all that apply.)
a. chronological order
b. order of importance
c. cause and effect
d. compare and contrast
6. The point of view used in this passage is the
a. first-person point of view.
b. ... literature.
LESSON
Drawing
Conclusions:
Putting It All
Together
LESSON SUMMARY
This lesson wraps up your study of reading comprehension by review-
ing everything you’ve learned so far.
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There isn’t room in this ... play. So this lesson will
introduce you to a few poems. But don’t be frightened:
Reading poetry is really just like reading anything else.
You just have to read a little more carefully and rely...
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Success_10 ppt
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... deal of time improving your reading comprehension, take this
posttest to see how much you’ve learned. If you took the pretest at the beginning of this book, you
can compare what you knew when ... knew when you started the book with what you know now.
When you complete this test, grade yourself, and then compare your score with your score on the pretest.
If your score now is much greater ... y20 w2 h7" alt=""
Posttest
The posttest consists of a series of reading passages with questions that follow to test your comprehension.
– POSTTEST–
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Grunge Music and American Popular Culture
The...
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Third Grade Reading Comprehension Success_11 potx
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... begun. Reading comprehension is a skill to build throughout your whole
lifetime.
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