Complete Exercise #5 on p. 39 by reading the passage and answering questions a-g that follow it.
A. What is corandic?
A corandic is an emrient grof with many fribs.
B. What does corandic grank from?
From corite, an olg with cargs like lange.
C. How do garkers excarp the tarances from the corite?
By glarcking the corite and starping it in tranker-clarped storbs,
D. What does the slorp finally frast?
The slorp is garped through several other corusces, finally frasting a pragety, blickant crankle, coranda.
E. What is coranda?
A cargurt, grinkling corandic and borigen.
F. How is the corandic nacerated from the borigen?
By means of loracity.
G. What do the garkers finally thrap?
A glick, bracht, glupous grapant, corandic, which granks in many starps,
First off I want to say that this was one of the most challenging exercises I have ever done revolving around reading and literacy. I read this passage over and over and tried to make meaning of what it was saying, but I never could. In order to answer the questions, I simply had to go find each word in the passage from the question and copy what followed in order to answer the question. I can see how children on standardized tests and workbooks are lost when reading a text that means nothing to them. I clearly had no background knowledge of anything from this passage, therefore I could not even begin to make sense of what the passage was conveying. Children are given passages all the time where they have no background knowledge of anything in the passage and also can't pronounce half of the words as well. I could not pronounce any of the words hardly in this passage which made it very difficult to read. I see how giving children texts that do not match their schemas can help benefit them, but only have mastering passages that they can read and understand. After reading this I can see how children would give up reading and begin guessing at answers on a test or worksheet. There is no benefit in reading a random passage and recalling information by going back and looking in the text for the answers. This must be very frustrating for children especially when they are beginning and emerging readers.
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