Module 1: Activity 2

Exercise 5 on page 39 in "Reading Process & Practice"
a. What is a corandic? an emurient grof with many fribs
b. What does corandic granf from? corite
c. How do garkers excarp the tarances from the corite? glarcking the corite and starping it in tranker-clarped storbs
d. What does the slorp finally frast? A pragety
e. What is coranda? a cargurt, grinkling corandic and borigen
f. How is the corandic navcerated 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

How is it that you are able to answer such questions? What does this experience suggest about the kinds of “comprehension” questions found in workbooks and on standardized tests? I am able to answer these questions because I can use the words from the questions and find them in the passage. I just answered with what came after the word used. This exercise suggests that the questions in workbooks and on standardized tests aren't always looking for deep comprehension. They are asking questions that can be answered directly from the passages. "Comprehension" questions should be open-ended type questions that don't have one right or wrong answer. If you truly comprehend a passage you should be able to go beyond the words of the page to summarize what you read. After doing this exercise I don't know what it was talking about because the words were nonsense, yet I was able to answer the questions because of using the text itself.