Hello Nissi, today we are going to review the basics from the Reading Process. Every time you read any story, something happen with the comprehension. The reader organizes the content by selecting the basics in order to makes the story understandable.
These are those elements you
need to have in mind when reading a book, story or magazine:
1.- Characters – Personajes
2.- Settings -
Tiempo y lugar
3.- Problem and Solution – Problema y solución
I would like
to focus in the second one, settings.
ACTIVITY:
Story Elements
What’s the Setting?
For each passage below, write the setting, or time and place,
in the correct column.
Write in a separate paper.
1. As the night ended, the sun splashed across Casey’s bed. He
opened his eyes slowly. The first thing he saw was the beautiful blue ribbon on
his bookshelf.
2. Jenny ran as fast as she could down the path. There were
trees in front of her, trees behind her, and trees on both sides. While the
snow was falling heavily in the valley, only a few snowflakes made it to the ground
around her.
3. Oscar thought it was time to get a breath of air, so he
began to make his way to the surface. Before he reached it, a large shadow came
toward him. Was it a shark? He thought of his parents on the beach. Would this
be the end of vacation?
4. Kwamba the lion cub rolled around near her mother’s feet.
Her mother would be leaving soon to start to hunt. While humans could not see
in the darkness, it was easy for lions. Kwamba hoped her mother would get a
gazelle. Those were her favorite dinners.
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Now, we need to work something about Language.
See verb to be in present tense:
am is are
Use articles as needed:
a an the
Use nouns related person, object, animal, place.
mother stove cow Honduras
Create 10 sentences as long as you can do it using NOUNS, ARTICLES and VERB TO BE IN PRESENT TENSE
Sample:
The house is ugly because people never fix it.
The - Article
House - Noun
Is - Verb to be in present tense.
because people never fix it - predicate compose by nouns and verbs.
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SPELLING
WORDS
Find the meaning
of the words giving an example with a sentence. Then, copy the words five times
each.
Serpent
Talons
Countryman
Witness
Encounter
Revenge
Spat
Enabling
Poison
Instead
Embarrassed
Towards
Ropes
The
Serpent and the Eagle
Read the fable and answer the questions
that follow
An
Eagle swooped down upon a Serpent and seized it in his talons with the
intention of carrying it off and devouring it. But the Serpent was too quick
for him and had its coils round him in a moment; and then there ensued a life-and-death
struggle between the two. A countryman, who was a witness of the encounter,
came to the assistance of the eagle, and succeeded in freeing him from the
Serpent and enabling him to escape. In revenge, the Serpent spat some of his
poison into the man's drinking-horn. Heated with his exertions, the man was
about to slake his thirst
with
a draught from the horn, when the Eagle knocked
it out of his
hand, and spilled its contents upon the ground.
QUESTIONS
1. Why did the Eagle swoop down on the
Serpent?
2. Why did the Eagle knock the drink out of
the countryman’s hand?
3. How did the countryman help the Eagle?
4. What did the Serpent do to punish the countryman?
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Reading
Comprehension
The
Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
Directions: Read the
fable and answer the questions that follow.
Once, a man and his son were going to the market with their donkey.
As they walked, a man passed them and said, “How silly. You are walking that
donkey when you could be riding it instead. What is a donkey for but to ride
on?” Hearing this, the man put his boy on the donkey’s back and they went on
their way. But soon they passed a group of women, one of whom said, “You should
be ashamed of yourself young man. Your father who is older than you should be
riding and you should be walking.” Red-faced and embarrassed, the boy jumped
down to have his father get up on the donkey. They hadn’t gone far when they
passed a man and a woman, one of whom said to the other, “Doesn’t he know they
can both fit on that donkey? His boy doesn’t have to walk this dusty road.” Well,
the man didn’t know what to do, but at last he took his son up and sat him down
in front of him on the donkey. They reached the town and people began to jeer and
point at them. “You’re overloading that poor donkey -- you and your son both
sitting there. You both look strong! You’d be better o_ carrying the donkey
yourselves.” They got off of the donkey and tried to think what to do. At last
they cut down a pole and tied the donkey’s feet to it. With it tied to the pole
like this, they raised the pole to their shoulders and carried the donkey
towards the bridge that lead to the market. This was dificult to do. The
townspeople laughed and heckled them so much that the donkey was frightened by
everything going on. Its feet slipped loose from the ropes and it fell. Once it
got to its feet again it ran away kicking and bucking. “That will teach you,”
said an old man who had followed them. “Try to please everyone and you will please
no one.”
QUESTIONS
1. Where
were the man and the boy traveling?
2.Why did the man put the boy on the donkey?
3.What happened after they passed a man and woman?
4. How did the people act when the man and the boy reached the
town?
TIME TO DO THIS, NISSI:
Remember to write on comments your answers.
