Sunday, June 10, 2012

Module 1: Activity 2

Activity 2:
Complete Exercise #5 on p. 39 by reading the passage and answering questions a-g that follow it.

What is a corandic? A corandic is an emurient grof with many fries.
What does corandic grank from? A corandic granks from corite, an olg which cargs like lange.
How do garkers excarp the tarances from the corite? Garkers excarpt by glarking the corite and starping it in tranker-clarped storbs.
What does the slorp finally frast? The slorp finally frasts a pragety, blickant crinkle.
What is coranda? A coranda is a cargurt, grinkling corandic and borigen.
How is the corandic nacerated from the borigen? The corandic is nacerated from the borigen by means of voracity.
What do the garkers finally tharp? Garkers finally tharp a glick, bracht, glupous grapant, corandic, which granks in many starps.

How is it that you are able to answer such questions?

I found this passage difficult to read and determine meaning. So I looked for key words that were used many times from the questions. Then, I reread the passage or sentence the key word was in to ensure it was the answer I needed to answer the question.

What does this experience suggest about the kinds of “comprehension” questions found in workbooks and on standardized tests?

Using passages like this one that don’t really make sense to the reader makes it difficult to determine meaning from it. Often times on standardized tests students just read the questions, look for clue words, and answer the questions without gaining any real meaning from the text.

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