Helen Keller's Life and Achievements

The video tutorial by Miss Bushman focuses on the comprehension strategy of monitoring comprehension. It uses the biography of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan to illustrate how monitoring comprehension can help understand text better. The video covers Helen Keller's early life challenges, Anne Sullivan's teaching methods, and Helen's achievements. It emphasizes the importance of jotting down notes to make connections and understand key events, ultimately showing how these strategies can help readers fully grasp the material.

What is the main purpose of monitoring comprehension while reading?

• To better understand the text

• To skip difficult parts

• To read faster

• To memorize the text

How does monitoring comprehension help readers?

• It improves handwriting

• It allows skipping pages

• It helps in drawing pictures

• It helps in making connections in the text

What major event changed Helen Keller's life before her second birthday?

• She learned to read

• She became blind and deaf

• She moved to a new city

• She started school

What was Helen Keller's initial reaction to her inability to communicate?

• She was excited

• She was angry

• She was happy

• She was indifferent

Who was Anne Sullivan?

• Helen's sister

• A teacher from a School for the Blind

• A famous author

• Helen's mother

What was the first word Helen Keller learned to spell with her fingers?

• Book

• Water

• Sound

• Light

How did Anne Sullivan help Helen Keller?

• By teaching her to cook

• By teaching her to paint

• By teaching her to dance

• By teaching her to read Braille

What did Helen Keller achieve with Anne Sullivan's help?

• She became a scientist

• She became a doctor

• She learned to speak

• She became a famous singer

What did Helen Keller do after graduating from college?

• She opened a restaurant

• She became a teacher

• She became a musician

• She wrote and lectured about being deaf and blind

How did Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan contribute to society?

• By traveling the world to help the public overcome its fear of physically challenged people

• By starting a business

• By opening a school

• By writing novels