Thursday, June 7, 2012

Module 1: Activity 2


a.       What is corandic? Corandic is an emurient grof with many fribs

b.      What does corandic grank from? it granks from corite, an olg which 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? a pragety, blickant crankle

e.       What is coranda? Coranda is a cargurt, grinkling corandic and borigen.

f.        How is 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.

When I looked at this activity, I got insanely frustrated. I guess I was hoping for some sort of clue about one of the words like the author gave for the similar passage (a blonke is a horse).  I reread the passage several times, and I still came away with nothing. So, I answered the questions the best I could, by looking for the key words in the questions and finding the responses in the passage. This reminds me of a test taking strategy that I taught to a student whom I tutored who was not “mastering” reading comprehension passage quizzes. Unfortunately, I still struggled with some hidden definition of corandic as well as the other nonsense words in the passage for more than 20 minutes, started crying, and was told by my husband that I had done the activity correctly.

Therefore, I was able to answer the questions using some sort of context clues, but I was not able to determine any meaning from the passage to answer the questions using words that made sense.  My experience was challenging, and I can’t imagine how frustrating that would feel for a young beginning or struggling reader. 

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