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xuất sắc.
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* Task 1. Matching
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* Task 2. True or False
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Pretest
The pretest consists of a series of readingpassages with questions that follow to test your comprehension.
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The Allendale ... In other words, read carefully and actively.
The five lessons that follow cover the basics of reading comprehension. By the end
of this section, you should be able to:
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responsible. I sometimes take the prize for a grade- A dork. Last weekend, for instance, when I was staying at
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Active reading is the first essential step to comprehen-
sion. Why? Because active reading forces you to really
see what you’re reading, to look closely at what’s there.
Like ... notoriety. Now you can take a pretty good
guess at the meaning of obscure.
Remember, good reading is active reading. Did you mark up the passage? If so, it may have looked something
like this:
– ... ideas that make up
the rest of the passage. (Not all passages provide such
a clear topic sentence that states the main idea. Less
obvious passages will come up in later lessons.)
Practice in...
... paragraph with a clear topic
sentence, like: “I’ve learned several reading strategies since Lesson 1” or “I’ve learned that reading com-
prehension isn’t as difficult as I thought.” Then, write ... opinions.
Practice
In this lesson, you will sharpen your reading compre-
hension skills by using all of these strategies at once.
This will become more natural to you as your reading
skills develop.
Practice Passage ... detective must do all
these things at the same time. Similarly, reading really can’t be broken down into these separate tasks. Read-
ing comprehension comes from employing all these strategies simultaneously....
... improve your overall reading
comprehension so you’ll begin to understand more
of what you read. In addition, reading more will
improve your vocabulary and increase your reading
speed.
Example: ... Read More Often
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It will improve your reading comprehension.
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It will increase your reading speed.
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It will broaden your understanding of yourself and
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Example: Most to Least Important
There are many benefits to reading more often. First
and foremost, reading more will broaden your
understanding of yourself and of other people....
... recall that the introduction to this book talked about active reading. As an active reader, you should
have been marking up the passages you’ve read in this book: identifying unfamiliar vocabulary, ... decreasing importance.
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paragraphs?
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readers understand what the writer has written.
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n most of the passages you have read so far, the author’s ideas and intentions have
been very clear. But what...
... or inference.
This lesson focuses on two specific types of implication: reading between the lines to deter-
mine cause and reading between the lines to predict effects.
In case you need a reminder: ... player is unable to be objective.
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Summary
In reading, particularly in reading literature, as well as
in real life, you often have to figure out what the causes
of ...
... literature.
LESSON
Drawing
Conclusions:
Putting It All
Together
LESSON SUMMARY
This lesson wraps up your study of readingcomprehension by review-
ing everything you’ve learned so far.
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There isn’t room in this ... play. So this lesson will
introduce you to a few poems. But don’t be frightened:
Reading poetry is really just like reading anything else.
You just have to read a little more carefully and rely ... next page. Then answer the questions
that follow. This will give you a chance to see how well
your reading skills are coming along.
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Posttest
The posttest consists of a series of readingpassages with questions that follow to test your comprehension.
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The ... the bear had not.
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ow that you’ve spent a good deal of time improving your reading comprehension, take this
posttest to see how much you’ve learned. If you took the pretest at ... compare what you knew when you started the book with what you know now.
When you complete this test, grade yourself, and then compare your score with your score on the pretest.
If your score now is...
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