Reading Assessment Reading Assessment ASSESSMENTS FOR READING ABILITIES | INFORMAL USE FORMAL USE FORMATIVE USE SUMMATIVE USE | ANECDOTALRECORDS | To observe students in instructional settings. Used for identifying reading comprehension benchmark.(Boyd-Batstone‚ 2004)‚ | THINK ALOUDS | Stragey for the think aloud enables
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BACKGROUND Introduction One of the most valuable skills a person can acquire is the ability to read well. It is difficult to discover any ability in the school‚ in the home‚ in business‚ or in any other field of endeavor today that does not require reading. People read to get information‚ to buy things wisely‚ for recreation‚ and for a great many other reasons. More reading is being done today than it ever was in the past. According to Smith (1988) reading is an important factor that greatly affects
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This palm reading is for your right hand‚ your major hand. Your left hand tells the potential you were born with‚ and your right hand tells what you have done with it. This reading will tell you about your actual self and what you have done with your potential. You have a Fire hand. This is known as the instinctive hand. You are creative and imaginative. You surround yourself with people‚ more comfortable in groups than alone. You are generally unafraid to take risks. You launch yourself enthusiastically
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Pleasures of Reading Some people get pleasure from picnics and tours. Others like to discuss various topics and find pleasure in it. But the reading of books provides us with such pleasure as we do not get from any other activity. Great is the blessing of books. Books are written by learned persons. They contain the best experiences and thoughts of their writers. Literature is said to mirror society. Writers put in their books not only their own ideas and feelings‚ but also what they observe and
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What are Transferable Skills? We all have “learned” abilities and “natural” abilities. Learned abilities are our skills and natural abilities are our talents. So what are Transferable skills or job-related skills? Simply put‚ transferable skills are the skills and abilities you have acquired during any activity in your life – your jobs‚ classes‚ projects‚ volunteer work‚ parenting‚ hobbies‚ sports‚ virtually anything – that are applicable to what you want to do in your next job. Learned abilities
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2.2 Reading Comprehension In Walpole and McKenna’s (2007) phrase‚ reading comprehension can be defined as “a cognitive act of extraction and construction of meaning‚ an act that is influenced by characteristics of the reader‚ the text‚ and the activity or goal‚ each of which is influenced by multiple sociocultural texts” (p. 7). According to Day & Park (2005)‚ there are six types of reading comprehension- literal comprehension‚ reorganization‚ inference‚ prediction‚ evaluation‚ personal response
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Although I do not have many vivid memories of my childhood the few things I do recall from my early years mostly seem to focus around school and my academics and interactions with children my own age. It is nearly impossible to pinpoint when exactly it was that I began to read but it must have been somewhere around the end of kindergarten and the beginning of first grade. I didn’t attend preschool so up until kindergarten my primary interaction with others was in my first language‚ Spanish. I can
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Academic Skills Week 2 Tasks Task 1 Example of a good introduction: Over the last five years‚ higher education lecturers have experienced a significant downturn in the quality of written work produced by students. For example‚ one of the important sections of any essay‚ the introduction‚ is often poorly written‚ providing nothing more than background information‚ or not included. McDonald has identified that: ‘Academic introductions are becoming a neglected part of an assignment by many students’
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Palmistry We all wonder what awaits us in the future. We wonder about our health‚ our careers and of course‚ our love life. Well the answer to all of these questions may lie quite literally in the palm of your hand. Palmistry‚ or palm reading‚ is the practice of predicting the future outcomes through the study of the palm. This study dates back to 3000 BC in ancient Egypt and still being practiced today worldwide. Today we will discuss how our palm lines can tell us about our future and ourselves
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Listening‚Speaking Study Skills Unit1 Learning and intelligence • Listening for gist Sometimes a listener may just want to get a general idea of what the speaker is saying‚ not detailed information. Listening for the general idea is also called listening for gist. • Listening for specific information Sometimes we listen for specific information‚ for example: 1. Times‚dates‚facts and figures. 2. main points in a list. 3. an argument/a line of reasoning. Important information
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