... different text types, I have chosen three narrative passages on "myth" and three expository passages on "exploration". All six passages are taken from a book of readings on different text types called Read and Retell. They are aimed for Grade 5 & 6 students. Therefore, they are of equal difficulty. Each passage is complete in itself, that is, not any of the passages relies on another ... Text (Exploration): "Space: the New Frontier". (Silent Reading Comprehension) 10 Questions: 7 correct & 3 incorrect. Q.1. What year did the astronauts first land on the moon? A.1. Umm . (Correct answer:...

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... in a way that gave it a deep connotation. For example, in the story "The End of Something," Hemingway uses the moon, a common word with a simple denotation, to add depth to the story. The moon actually plays a role of a symbol that represents virginity and innocence. The story states, "They sat on the blanket without ... touching each other and watched the moon rise" (Hemingway 34). This sentence is simple and to the point, yet it reveals so much. Instead of finding a complex ... way to describe how Nick and Marjorie are losing affection for each other, Hemingway uses a very basic conce...

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... meant to stay home and care for the needs of their children and husband. They had no place in the political sphere, and they need only be educated enough to read the Bible. Women were less scholarly then men so they had no business writing. These beliefs surrounded her writing and many assumed that Anne had stolen the ideas she wrote ... on. He believed that there was a God that created life and it was up to the humans to better themselves. Take for example the story he tells about the drunken sailor that he saves, whom just happens to have a copy of one of Ben's favorite books. "His du...

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... it back when he was done. Paulsen began reading books in the basement of his house. At first it took Paulsen about a month to read a book, but gradually he got to be a faster reader and was able to read two books in one week. As Paulsen later recalls, "When she handed me a library card, she handed me the world."" Gary Paulsen attended ... in his manuscripts to be edited by his colleagues. After eleven months of non-stop writing, Paulsen finally published his first article. His other jobs include construction worker, engineer, and sailor. When Gary Paulsen was a young boy, he enjoyed goi...

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... fruitful teachings for society in the present years. Besides enjoying reading, he also had a strong inclination for the sea, but his father declared against it, and prohibited him from becoming a sailor. He was sent to grammar school with the intentions of going into church afterwards, but later on, he was sent to another grammar school to improve his math and writing ... the topic and send them to him afterwards. Collins replied, and Franklin wrote back and so on. After three or four letters, Franklin's father happened to find his papers and read them. Without entering into discussion ...

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... But i remember them. The white one had little rubbery pieces that stuck to it. You put the pieces on the board to make pictures that told a story. A lady would read a story from a book and one of us kids would stick the pictures up. Sometimes the lady did both, but i liked it better when a kid did the pictures. The ... had the ability to enchant. I was just confusing the mechanics of writing with writing. So i forgot all about neatness and precision and just focused on writing. I figured if i could read it, it was good enough. I set about trying to find a way to get those pictures into w...

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... imaginative thinking, so if there are any lumps of shit out there, smoke a couple of bowls and think about mario and luigi for fifteen or so minutes then comeback and read this. Trust me it helps. Okay, so let's pretend that *you, the proverbial *you that is never supposed to be used in formal writing, has a time machine that is capable ... Raphy and thinks about it for a while. Then my mother, the only sanity in my life, gets my legos out for me and I build a huge paper crumpling machine with the moon planet legos. It looks like the car crusher from the movie The Brave Little Toaster, ...

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... power of imagination and ingenuity and models it through out her childhood and even now as an adult writer. She allowed her mind to experience her mother's voice when she read to her and took her senses to produce a livelier novel. Nabokov states: "What should be established is an artistic harmonious balance between the readers mind and the authors mind."(1006 ... she had discovered as a child books were not miraculous wonders but the work of men and women. Then as an adult, she was corrected by a critic on the fact that a moon is a sphere not a circle. As an author, you want your novel...

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... , it was pulled from theaters at the end of the second week. On the other end of the spectrum, a movie that was a huge hit in its opening weekends, Twilight:New Moon, for their pre-release week, averages of 1365.8 and 1212.8 tweets per hour respectively. This once again illustrates the importance of attention in social media. An individual who would like ... ...

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... hair and flesh carefully scraped from the surface before it was stretched tight over a frame, covered with chalk to remove excess fats, and allowed to dry. After further scraping with a moon-shaped blade, the skin was removed from the frame and cut to size. With parchments made of either sheepskin and calfskin, the hair side tends to be more cream-colored ... ...

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... that they are choosing books that are appropriate for their level. Students are learning how to work together, make choices, talk about what they have read, and set goals for themselves. During the reading workshop, I will first give a book talk then a mini-lesson. In the minilesson, I ... their classmates or they may discover something themselves just by verbalizing their thoughts. Discussion also eliminates confusions that students may have. Encouraging students to read to each other and to bring books from home is a great way to keep students interested and help them to develop good...

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... get bored easily. However, when I finish reading a book, I feel like I may get some information or knowledge from the book. As I read books, I feel many different things from each book. I read a book called "The Tree" by Bernard Werber. This book is full of imagination. The people who believe there is no number other than 1 ... The Tree" gives us an opportunity to look at the world in a different perspective and also to see how great author Bernard Werber is. When I read this book, it was hard to understand what he was trying to say. His way of writing is little different from others. Tha...

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... This story is about pain, love, family; it's the idea that people can express themselves though black ink on paper. Growing up, I loved to read. I have read everything from every golden book as a kid to every Mortal Instruments and Nicholas Sparks novel to date. The letters of each book, each page, each ... of my secret drawer of bundled imagination. From my earliest years, literature has always had a big influence on my life. As a little girl I read book on princesses in towers waiting to be save by their knight and shinning armor, waiting to sweep them off of their feet. Those stories ...

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... 'd ask me how I managed it-- my 'success'" (Rodriguez, pg.597). Basically, Richard Rodriguez is saying that because of his education he was being praised. In his essay "Learning to read," Malcolm X wrote that "As you can imagine, especially in a prison where there was heavy emphasis on rehabilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he demonstrated an unusually intense ... 't literate are looked down upon and mistreated. Even now fast food restaurants expect a high school diploma. In Malcolm X's essay "Learning to Read" he wrote that "my homemade education gave me, with every additional book...

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... my literacy skills was the Book-It program held by the public library, where children would receive a grand prize for how many books that read in a month. The first major literacy moment of my life occurred in the third grade when I joined the Reading Competition Club. My elementary ... were several to thousands that I enjoyed reading. In the seventh grade my literacy took an abrupt change from fantasy to mystery when my English class read the book "And Then There Were None " by Agatha Christie. The way this mystery novel was written intrigued me. I became incredibly interested and conf...

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... feedback from instructors and writing tutors • engage in writing-to-learn activities Outcome 3: Purpose/Audience Awareness Students will write clearly for a specified audience and purpose. Related Objectives • read a variety of texts and analyze their rhetorical situations (i.e. context, audience, and aims) • write papers with a clearly developed thesis and support designed to appeal to various audiences and ... ; how effectively it uses evidence; how effectively it communicates with its audience; to what extent it engages its reader's imagination and understanding; and how easily...

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... time?", and "How will I get started?", are some of the questions that go through my exhausted brain. After my brain is through processing those questions, I read over the assignment and start to think how long this will take me to write. Well usually the teacher doesn't let you get started right away so I ... matter if the paper is one page or ten pages; I always wait till what seems like the last minute. When I finally start, I have to read the assignment over and over again before it sinks into my brain. When it sinks in, if it is something that can come from my head I just ... assigne...

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... use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations. For example, a functionally illiterate adult is unable to fill out an employment application, follow written instructions, or read a newspaper. In short, when confronted with printed materials, adults without basic literacy skills cannot function effectively." Statistics make it clear that illiteracy is on the increase in the United States ... with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, CAPD, and short memory differences. Illiteracy is simply "not having mastered certain skills that are the basis of wri...

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... and meanings of things around us. In a way, we do start reading from the day we are born. I don't mean that we actually read a book, but rather that we start reading the behavior and characteristics of our parents and surroundings. As we get little older, we start reading books ... ABCs but we never understand that reading is a crucial part of our life. The school programs don't emphasize that much on reading, so we tend to read only when it's necessary for school. I, personally, didn't think reading was that important until the past few years. I never took reading that serious, since .....

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... encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." Ben taught himself how to read and write, while his father discouraged him to do so. He gave himself an education, made himself literate, and that is what gave him the ambition ... of my classes, and always been ambitious, knowing I would go to college and make a life for myself. Without and education, a knowledge of how to read, write, and understand, I would not have the ambition or the confidence. I may not end up as known or as great as Benjamin Franklin, but my...

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... a coherent piece of literature. Even though writing is often difficult, the sense of accomplishment from completing a piece is very rewarding. Once I was taught to read, it was as if I had unlocked the gates to a new world filled with any adventure I could imagine. Some of my earliest memories are of ... my godmother reading to me in the evening. One of the first books to spark my interest was Charlotte's Web; I read it front to back at least five times. Up to that point, I had enjoyed reading for recreation; it wasn't until second grade that I became ... checked out. Since I switched sc...

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... wasn't that spicy, but I was surely dating my random readings in the library. Each day, I would randomly pick a copy and open a random page to read. The school library used to be my lunch table for half hour. In addition to my passionate reading sessions, I had some great teachers throughout who have encouraged ... -fiction stories written by amateur writers like me and edited by their admins. Today, one can use the internet to enhance your reading experience. I have read several books that led me to the internet because I wanted to know more about some of the things or people mentioned i...

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... 1984) discusses a study she conducted in which she asked students to choose which excerpt from Lanham's Revising Prose they preferred. The first excerpt, which uses abstract and technical language, read, "In effect, it was hypothesized, that certain physical data categories including housing types and densities land use characteristics, and ecological location constitute a scalable content area," while the second ... excerpt, addressing exactly the same issue but clearly uses only everyday language rather than abstract and technical language, read, "Rich people live in big houses set far...

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... following your agenda" (pg. 1). This statement is confusing to a reader. After reading over a few times it is still tough to understand. As you read further into the introduction the more the author makes note of essays from the book. This was another area of difficulty, considering the essays in the book are ... comparisons to essays located in the book, thus after reading it a second time, the author's views became clearer. The introduction actually encourages you to read things more than once not just because of "misunderstandings" but also because when reading long passages it is har...

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... differences and similarities in the two types of literature In the poem, "A Study of Reading Habits," Philip Larkin talks of being unhappy both in his home and at school. He read books where the good guys fought the bad guys, books where the good guys always won the battle. In his adolescent years, Larkin talks of wearing one inch glasses. He ... books created from the writer's imagination. Such creativity is shown in forms of comic books and short stories in magazines. On the other hand, there are readers who prefer to read non-fiction books that are based on truth and facts, and real-...

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