One of the best ways to improve your reading is to

• read all the time

• learn to read paragraphs effectively

• read small sections

• learn to effectively read whole sections of a textbook

Answer explanation

According to the Cuesta College page on the organizational patterns of a paragraph, the best way to improve a person's reading is to learn to effectively read paragraphs.

What is the basic unit of thought in a text?

• a sentence

• a word

• a paragraph

• a chapter

What is the importance of patterns?

• They signal how facts will be presented.

• They signal how the rest of the text is set up

• They signal how the paragraph is set up.

A frequently found pattern of organization within a text is Simple Listing.

• True

• False

Description is an organizational pattern frequently found within a text.

• true

• false

Chronological order, compare and contrast, and cause and effect are all commonly used organizational patterns within a text.

• True

• False

How many examples of commonly used organizational patterns within a text listed on the Cuesta College website?

https://www.cuesta.edu/student/resources/ssc/study_guides/reading_comp/306_read_paragraph.html

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

Syntax refers to...

• the formation of words

• the arrangement of sentences within a paragraph

• to the formation of sentences and the associated grammatical rules

Syntactic skills are correlated with

• reading comprehension

• language comprehension

• reading and language comprehension

• reading fluency

Developing syntax can involve examining how sentences are built, learning to expand sentences, and learning to combine short, choppy sentences into longer, grammatically correct sentences.

• False

• True