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The exercises in this section accommodate different learning and
teaching styles and provide practice in all aspects of a skill.
The varied skills and activities in this section focus on:
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Main ideas: Students choose the main idea of a reading
or a paragraph or identify an author's opinion or point of view. |
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Details: Students show their understanding of details
or distinguish between a main idea and a detail. |
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Guessing vocabulary from context: Students use contextual
clues, recognize similarity in meaning between words, or recognize
different forms of word families. |
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Text organization: Students show understanding of reference
words or add sentences to a paragraph. |
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Restatement and inference: Students make inferences
based on the text or distinguish between a restatement and an
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The final exercise asks open-ended questions that are closely connected
to the topic of the reading, allowing students to share their thoughts,
opinions, and experiences.
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