Module 1: Activity 2

Laura Jordan                                                                                                                                 Activity 2 M1

Complete Exercise #5 on p. 39 by reading the passage and answering questions a-g that follow it. 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?

a. What is a corandic?
A corandic is an emurient grof with many fribs.
 
b. What does corandic grank from?
 A corandic granks from corite.
 
c. How do garkers excarp the terances from the corite?
Garkers exarp the terances by glarking the corite and starping it in tanker-clarped storbs.
 
d. What does the slorp finally frast?
 A pragety
 
e. What is a coranda?
 A coranda is a cargurt, grinkling corandic, and borigen.
 
f. How is the corandic nacerated from the borigen?
 By the means of  loracity.
 
g. What do the garkers finally thrap? 
The garkers finally thrap a glick, bracht, glupous prapant, corandic, which dranks in many starps.

Reflection
 After reading through the passage and struggling I immediately searched for my questions wondering what exactly I was asked to do with this information. I was able to answer these questions by reading the question and finding the answer word for word in the passage.  Although I had no idea what I was reading about, because the questions were basic recall, or ask and find, I was able to do so with little trouble.  When we are asked to just find an answer and not expand we are not thinking about our reading.  Finding the answers quickly became easy once I realized that the answers were irrelevant to what I knew and what my schema was prior to reading this passage.

 From completing this assignment it is easy to see that both workbooks and standardized testing and just asking students to look up and find information stated to them. With workbooks many times students are asked to read a passage and answer the questions.  Occasionally students are asked to match vocabulary words.  This is doing absolutely nothing constructive for the student. Teachers who teach primarily out of workbooks are teaching their students just to find the answer so that they can get by regardless of the topic.  The same idea is applicable to standardized tests.  The students are asked to read a passage, and regardless of the schemas, answer questions without truly comprehending and thinking about their reading.