Text Structure and Comprehension

Beagles are medium-sized members of the hound family. Beagles generally make good pets because they are intelligent, good-natured, and good with children. Beagles are also quite playful and need a great deal of exercise.

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• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Sequence

How to Make Cookies. First, get your materials. Then, make your dough. Lastly, cook your dough at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.

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Apples and oranges are both fruits, which means that they have seeds inside of them. Each has a skin, but orange skins are thick and easy to peel. Apple skins are thinner and do not peel easily. Oranges also contain more acid than apples, but both fruits are delicious.

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To increase reading comprehension and retention for learners, it is best to:

• give very short passages

• read aloud for the students

• provide a text with very simple language

• identify the purpose of reading the chosen text

12. Composing a concise statement on the main idea of a passage is a reading strategy referred to as:

 

• A) analyzing

• B) evaluating

• C) structuring

• D)Summarizing

A teacher asks the students to match headlines with news stories. What is the purpose of this pre-reading activity?

• Focus on main idea

• Focus on details

• Guess vocabulary from context

• Enrich sentence structure

Read the passage and determine its text structure!

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• Cause and Effect

• Sequential

• Problem and Solution

Read the passage and determine its text structure!

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• Sequential

• Chronological

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The term Amnesia refers to complete or partial memory loss. Almost all of us will experience some form of Amnesia in our lives, even if it’s just a simple case of verbal amnesia, like forgetting someone’s name. Fortunately, there are things that you can do to prevent amnesia. Here is a list of foods that you can eat to improve your memory: almonds, walnuts, bananas, honey, apples, and black pepper. Though these foods may not reverse post-traumatic amnesia, they should improve your memory in daily life if you eat them regularly enough.

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• Problem and Solution

Read the passage and determine its text structure! What do Finding Nemo and Robocop have in common? Not much, except that they both feature characters who suffer amnesia. Amnesia is a common plot device in movies and TV shows, but how accurate are these depictions? In television and movies, memory loss caused by a knock to the head (post-traumatic amnesia) is shown as fairly common, when it is actually quite rare. Unlike in movies and television shows that feature amnesia, most knocks to the head will not produce memory loss. In reality, memory loss or amnesia is much more likely to occur as the result of a stroke, brain infection, or brain surgery. So while amnesia causes people or characters to lose memories in both film and reality, characters are usually “fixed” by taking another knock to the head. In reality, people are not cured so simply.

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Descriptive/Spatial

• Problem and Solution