... 8TH GRADEREADINGCOMPREHENSION SUCCESS LEARNINGEXPRESS SKILL BUILDERS 8TH GRADEREADINGCOMPREHENSION SUCCESS Elizabeth Chesla New York Copyright ... Lesson 12: Word Choice 83 Lesson 13: Style 89 Lesson 14: Tone 97 Lesson 15: Putting It All Together 105 –8TH GRADEREADINGCOMPREHENSION SUCCESS– SECTION 4: READING BETWEEN THE LINES 113 Lesson 16: ... a 19 c 1, 24 b 1, 12 d 25 a 17 b 1, 12 26 d 1, a 1, 27 b 12, 19 b 28 d 11, 16 a 29 d 8, 19 10 c 30 b 11 11 c 31 a 19 12 b 11 32 c 12 13 d 33 b 12, 13 14 b 1, 34 a 14 15 c 11, 16 35 a 17, 19 16...
... 8TH GRADEREADINGCOMPREHENSION SUCCESS LEARNINGEXPRESS SKILL BUILDERS 8TH GRADEREADINGCOMPREHENSION SUCCESS Elizabeth Chesla New York Copyright ... Lesson 12: Word Choice 83 Lesson 13: Style 89 Lesson 14: Tone 97 Lesson 15: Putting It All Together 105 –8TH GRADEREADINGCOMPREHENSION SUCCESS– SECTION 4: READING BETWEEN THE LINES 113 Lesson 16: ... a 19 c 1, 24 b 1, 12 d 25 a 17 b 1, 12 26 d 1, a 1, 27 b 12, 19 b 28 d 11, 16 a 29 d 8, 19 10 c 30 b 11 11 c 31 a 19 12 b 11 32 c 12 13 d 33 b 12, 13 14 b 1, 34 a 14 15 c 11, 16 35 a 17, 19 16...
... 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 c a d a b c c b a b d c d b c b a d c c b a c a b 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Lesson Lesson Lesson ... For more information about Project Teen, contact the cultural center’s programming office at 98 8-0 099 or drop by the office after June to pick up a fall course catalog The office is located on the ... – PRETEST – Pretest The pretest consists of a series of readingpassages with questions that follow to test your comprehension Cultural Center Adds Classes for Young Adults The Allendale...
... really comprehending what you read Active reading is the first essential step to comprehension Why? Because active reading forces you to really see what you’re reading, to look closely at what’s there ... happened at the staff meeting If you’re taking a standardized test, you’ll probably have to answer readingcomprehension ques- On Friday, October 21, at approximately 8:30 a.m., Judith Reynolds, owner ... other businesses were affected? 20 – GETTING THE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION – Remember, good reading is active reading Did you mark up the passage? If so, it may have looked something like this: when...
... this paragraph is best expressed in which sentence in the paragraph? Johnson died in a 192 7 b 193 8 c 192 9 13 Indicate whether the following sentences are fact or opinion: a “Robert Johnson is ... In this lesson, you will sharpen your readingcomprehension 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 all these things at the same time Similarly, reading really can’t be broken down into these separate tasks Readingcomprehension comes from employing all these strategies simultaneously...
... will improve your overall readingcomprehension so you’ll begin to understand more of what you read In addition, reading more will improve your vocabulary and increase your reading speed Main Idea ... to reading more often First, it will increase your reading speed, so that you can read more in less time Second, it will improve your vocabulary Third, it will improve your overall reading comprehension, ... Read More Often ■ It will improve your vocabulary ■ It will improve your readingcomprehension ■ It will increase your reading speed ■ It will broaden your understanding of yourself and others...
... may 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, ... reactions and questions in the margin But there’s another part of active reading we haven’t talked about: making observations 95 – DICTION: WHAT’S IN A WORD? – Making Obser vations Obser ving Diction ... increasing importance or decreasing importance Skill Building until Next Time ■ ■ Look again at the passages you read in Lessons 1–5 What structures you notice at work in those paragraphs? As you...
... Reading between the Lines N ow that you’ve studied the way authors use structure and language to organize and express their ideas, you’re ready to tackle more difficult passages: those ... implication or inference This lesson focuses on two specific types of implication: reading between the lines to determine cause and reading between the lines to predict effects In case you need a reminder: ... is a likely possibility 128 – ASSUMING CAUSES AND PREDICTING EFFECTS – Summar y In reading, particularly in reading literature, as well as in real life, you often have to figure out what the causes...
... room in this short lesson to look at theme in a short story, novel, or play So this lesson will introduce you to a few poems But don’t be frightened: Reading poetry is really just like reading anything ... evidence does it use to support its position? 136 L E S S O N 19 Finding Meaning in Literature LESSON SUMMARY Many people are scared of reading literature—stories, poems, and plays—especially if ... Drawing Conclusions: Putting It All Together LESSON SUMMARY This lesson wraps up your study of readingcomprehension by reviewing everything you’ve learned so far Y ou’re almost at the end of this...
... the product had worn thin by the early 199 0s Just as superficial as the 80s, glam rockers were shallow, short on substance, and musically inferior In 199 1, a Seattle-based band called Nirvana ... The posttest consists of a series of readingpassages with questions that follow to test your comprehension Grunge Music and American Popular Culture The late 198 0s found the landscape of popular ... this short test When you finish, check your answers against the answer key that follows Each answer tells you which lesson of this book teaches you about the reading strategy in that question 149...
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... cut your sandwich in half with a knife 1 89 8th_GRD_181_224.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:31 PM Page 190 L E S S O N 8th_GRD_181_224.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:31 PM Page 191 23 ADVERTISEMENTS L E S S O N S U M ... 8th_GRD_181_224.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:31 PM Page 197 –ADVERTISEMENTS– today for just $64 .99 (8) If you call in the next five minutes, we’ll send you a month’s supply of BetterX completely free! (9) Supplies are ... writing By reading carefully, you’ll notice how the writer says things and what effect the advertisement is meant to have on you 191 8th_GRD_181_224.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:31 PM Page 192 –ADVERTISEMENTS–...
... one thing about eighth grade that you would want to tell a seventh grader about (For example, how does eighth -grade science compare to seventh -grade science?) Write three short paragraphs about ... to land on the moon A lunar prospector took off in January 199 8, in the first moon shot since astronauts last walked on the moon in 197 2 This time, the moontraveler is only a low-cost robot that ... 8/11/ 09 3:27 PM Page 1 19 14 STYLE L E S S O N S U M M A RY Writers think carefully not only about the words they use but also about the kind of sentences they write Will they be long or short? ...
... owl population C More research needed 93 8th_GRD_ 79_ 102.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:24 PM Page 94 8th_GRD_ 79_ 102.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:24 PM L E S S O N 11 Page 95 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER S E C T I O ... which case he or she has to work on 77 8th_GRD_ 39_ 78.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:23 PM Page 78 L E S S O N 8th_GRD_ 79_ 102.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:24 PM Page 79 CAUSE AND EFFECT L E S S O N S U M M A RY “One ... much of their habitat to be lost In 199 1 the federal government passed laws to protect the land where the owls 8th_GRD_ 79_ 102.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:24 PM Page 89 –SUMMARIES AND OUTLINES– live Now,...
... (Organization) II Title: Eighth gradereadingcomprehension and writing skills LB1631.A16 20 09 428.0071'2—dc22 20 090 165 09 Printed in the United States of America First Edition ISBN 97 8-1-57685-711-3 For ... LESSON QUESTION ANSWER LESSON a 2, 17 21 a 1, 19 b 1, 22 c b 1, 23 a 17 c 9, 19 24 b 1, 13 d 25 a 19 b 20 26 d 1, a 9, 20 27 b 13, 17 b 28 d 10 b 24 29 d 8, 17 10 c 30 b 12 11 c 31 a 17 12 b 12 ... 8/11/ 09 3:21 PM Page 8th_GRD_1_38.qxd:Layout 8/11/ 09 3:21 PM Page –LEARNINGEXPRESS ANSWER SHEET – 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 8th_GRD_1_38.qxd:Layout...
... I.1 Definitions of reading, readingcomprehension and purposes of reading I.1.1 What is reading? I.1.2 What is reading comprehension? I.1.3 The purposes of reading I.2 ... research: reading and reading comprehension, classification of reading, the importance of improving reading skills, roles of reading teachers and those of reading students, focused tasks in reading ... tasks and using tasks to develop readingcomprehension skills I.1 Definitions of reading, readingcomprehension and purposes of reading I.1.1 What is reading? Reading is a natural and common activity...