ANALOGIES - MAIN IDEAS / THEMES (Fourth Week Activities)

FOURTH WEEK ACTIVITIES

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Hi students!

These are the activities you have to hand in at the beginning of each class.

Remember,  you have to copy and answer them in your notebooks.

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First Class Activity

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Second Class Activity

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Third Class Activity

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VOCABULARY - ANALOGIES (Third Week Activities)

THIRD WEEK ACTIVITIES

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Hi students!

These are the activities you have to hand in at the beginning of each class.

Remember,  you have to copy and answer them in your notebooks.

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First Class Activity

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Second Class Activity

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Third Class Activity

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VOCABULARY (Second Week Activities)

SECOND WEEK ACTIVITIES

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Hi students!

These are the activities you have to hand in at the beginning of each class.

Remember,  you have to copy and answer them in your notebooks.

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First Class Activity

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Second Class Activity

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Third Class Activity

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VOCABULARY (First Week Activities)

FIRST WEEK ACTIVITIES

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Hi students!

These are the activities you have to hand in at the beginning of each class.

Remember,  you have to copy and answer them in your notebooks.

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First Class Activity

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Second Class Activity

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Third Class Activity

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CONTENTS

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HI JMR STUDENTS!

Are you having trouble with reading comprehension questions on tests? Do you want to know how to improve your reading ability, pass placement tests in school or get ready for the SABER 11 exam? 

If so, then this blog is for you, as you can use it to sharpen your skills for an important test and to get over the troubles you have with reading, especially with reading carefully while reading quickly. 

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C O N T E N T S

VOCABULARY

Understanding the words used to construct sentences is the best way to begin practicing for a reading comprehension test.Using a dictionary is,of course,the best way to define a word.But if you’re in a testing situation and you are not allowed to use one,rely on the context clues in the sentence. The term context cluesmeans that other words in the sentence “give away”or give clues to the definition.For example, sometimes you will find synonyms (words that mean the same thing) or antonyms (words that mean the opposite), or details that lead you to identify the vocabulary word in question. Once in a while, you will find a group of words set off by commas (called an appositive),which gives you a very clear definition of the word.

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ANALOGIES

The dictionary defines an analogy as a “similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.”In each of the questions contained in this section, you will find a pair of related words. Look at those words and try to figure out how they are connected to one another.For example,what is the connection between the words fishand scales? Obviously,a fish is covered with scales;now think oftwo other words that share a similar relationship.A good example ofthis would be birdand feathers.The similarity between these two unrelated pairs of words is an analogy.The best way to approach an analogy question is to make up a sentence that describes the relationship between the first two words and find another pair in the choices that would fit into that same sentence.A fish is covered with scales,as a bird is covered with feathers.

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MAIN IDEAS / THEMES

Finding the main idea or theme of a written piece is one of the most important aspects of good reading comprehension. It is, however, easy to confuse the main idea or theme with the subject. Basically, the subject of a piece of writing is what that piece is generally about, plain and simple— the facts and information. However, when you look past the facts and information to the heart of what writers are trying to say, and why they are saying it, that’s the main idea or theme. For example, the subject of this introduction is about distinguishing between a subjectand a main idea or theme;the main idea or theme is why it’s important to be able to recognize that difference.

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TOPIC SENTENCES

In the last section, you learned what a main idea is. Often, writers express their main idea in a clearly defined sentence known as a topic sentence.Topic sentences are usually found at the beginning of a paragraph in order to immediately establish the main idea.But this is not always the case—topic sentences can be found anywhere in a paragraph,and sometimes,the author chooses not to use one at all.Still,looking for the topic sentence is a good skill to have when ferreting out the meaning of a reading passage.

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