Understanding Our Reading

To find a word that’s new & predict the meaning of the word using clues from the words around it

• questioning

• visualizing

• contextual clues

• process of elimination

To use clues in text to decide what the text will be about, or what will happen next

• predict

• main idea

• evaluate

• infer

Using clues around a "tricky" word to figure out what it means is called?

• contextual clues

• predicting

• inferring

• scanning

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.
The Summary of this passage is:

• Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.
•  Jill loves Mexican food.
• The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.
•  Jill will choose a place by flipping a coin.

A Problem at the Zoo

Mr. Gonzalez's class was worried. The polar bears at the zoo were acting nervous. The oldest bear was swimming all the time. He never rested!

The zookeeper told the kids the problem was noise. The bear reserve was near the highway. The bears heard cars go by. Drivers blew their horns. What could be done?

The class wrote letters to the mayor. The mayor suggested lowering the speed limit for the cars. She also said she could post signs that said, “NO HONKING! It disturbs the bears.” The signs went up and the speed limit was lowered.

The class noticed right away that the bears were napping more. They felt they had made a change using their government.

What was causing the bears to be nervous?

• Swimming

• Noise

• Napping

• The class

Last holiday, my friends and I went to the beach near from our city. We went early in the morning and arrived there at 8 a.m. luckily, that day was sunny. The beach seemed so beautiful under the blue sunny sky. It was great to feel the sand grains beneath our feet and the breeze blowing our hair gently.

At noon, we started to feel hungry, so we decided to head to the nearest food stall. The fish looked fresh and there were a lot of seafood menu listed here. We ordered grilled fishes. The dishes were delicious since the seller made them from fresh ingredients. We filled our bellies to our heart’s content.

We stay until the sun set because many people said the view was so outstanding. They were right, it was amazing. We took great photos as a keepsake of our beautiful moments here. We went home happily and fully recharged, ready for our daily routine, going to school the next day.

What is the text about?

• The activities that the writer did in his spare time.

• The experiences that the writer had in his holiday.

• The activities that the writer did last weekend.

• The experiences that the writer had with his family.

In an interview yesterday, Mr Wilson was questioned about the harmful effects of horror movies on teenagers. He argued that such effects were often exaggerated and claimed that other types of films were far more dangerous for young people. When asked to prove this, he pointed out that horror films were often set in unreal situations and were clearly not to be taken seriously. In contrast, he claimed that films showing violent crime were often set in everyday life, and were, therefore, more damaging.

In Mr Wilson’s opinion, horror films _____.

• cost more than other kinds of films.

• are more popular among the elderly than among the young.

• should be banned altogether.

• are less damaging to young people that films of violent crime.

• have recently ceased to appeal to the young.

Which one is the sequence of events that make up a story

• Plot

• Point of view

• Characters

• Theme

What are the people, animals, or things that speak in a story called?

• Point of view

• Characters

• Theme

• Setting

What is the message about life that the author wants you to learn called?

• Plot

• Setting

• Conflict

• Theme