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This page gathers over 100 Reading Skills and Comprehension notes, from short stories and reading activities to TOEFL passages. They offer school students reading practice and teachers material for lessons, with some resources for university students and professional candidates. The collection is mainly secondary-level. Choose a note to begin.
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- Importance and Benefits of Reading11
- Pre-Reading Strategies10
- Types of Reading22
- Skimming and Scanning124
- Sight Words7
- Context Clues and Word Meaning69
- Main Idea and Supporting Details39
- Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions24
- Cause and Effect15
- Text Structure and Features22
- Author's Purpose10
- Close Reading30
- Critical Reading and Comparing Texts25
- Reading Question Types26
- Reading Exam Strategies and Practice39
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TOEFL Sample Passages (See Quizzes After) Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction (1) There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on Earth, particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts conti...
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Reading about Canada - Intermediate Level CANADA - IT'S NOT the USA Imagine yourself sitting in a café one day in your home town, when on the next table you hear some people speaking English with a strong North American accent. Being a friendly person, you le...
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Reading activities LEARNING IS FUN!!! Before you read, answer these questions · Do you like to study? · What do you like about your school? · What are you studying for? · Who would you like to become in? A school is a place where people...
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Short Story (The Hasty Act) - Beginners The Hasty Act - Marc Brandel I didn't get into this thing on purpose. I'm not tough; I'm a coward. I'm not ashamed to say it. And I'm not ashamed to say that I'm frightened and confused. I don't know what to do....
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Reading Comprehension Practice Questions for CAHSEE Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. Daniel Boone will always occupy a unique place in our history as the archetype of the hunter and wilderness wanderer. He was a true pioneer, and stood at the head...
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Spiders - Reading Spiders are not insects as many people believe. They belong to a class of animals called arachnids. Spiders have eight eyes, four pairs of segmented legs, and can grow a new leg if they lose one. They do not have ante...
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Reading Comprehension - Levi's Blue Jeans Levi's Blue Jeans Vocabulary emigrate- (v) to move permanently from one's country to another. dry goods- (n) clothing, fabric, and other items to sell miner- (n) a person who searches for gold, diamonds, etc. durable-...
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La Felicidad Read the article about two sisters. Are the sentences ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’?If there is not enough information to answer ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’, choose ‘Doesn’t say’. Something very strange happened to Tamara. She never knew...
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questions about listening job 1. Choose TRUE or FALSE: 1. Ligaya lives in the Phlipines. 2. She teaches French. 3. She drives to work. 4. She doesn´t like her job. 5. She´s marr...
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SSAT Reading Comprehension Sample Questions In this section, we will provide you with some sample questions from previous SSAT exams. 6. In which country does this passage take place? France United States England Brazil 7. Where does the road from Tunstal...
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Lecturas para Preparar el First Certificate (I) Social Networks Business applicationsSocial networks connect people at low cost; this can be beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact base. These networks often act as a custom...
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Intermediate - Reading How Effective Is the Mask You’re Wearing? You May Know Soon Original article Published at: Dec 16, 2020 | 22:37 pm Source: click to check it out More than 100,000 varieties of face masks are currently for sa...
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Advanced - Reading A guide to how gender-neutral language is developing around the world Original article Published at: Dec 15, 2019 | 10:30 am Source: click to check it out What pronoun do you use to identify yourself? He? Sh...
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READNG SKILLS 3.1 In this lesson, you’ll study ways to interpret what you read. To interpret means to make sense of something or figure out what it’s about. There are four important skills in interpreting what you read. First, learn to...
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SURGERY TOURISM Women stranded at airport after cosmetic surgery READING Three Chinese women were left stranded at a South Korean airport after immigration officials said their passport photos did not match their faces. ...
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Reading Skills 1.1 Previewing When you preview, you use the info you already know to guess what info is most likely to follow. Printed and online magazines - TITLES. Table of contents. Fiction - - Read the title - Read t...
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Reading Skills 1.3 Word Meanings When you’re reading, it isn’t unusual to come across words that you don’t understand or words you don’t know the meaning of. There are five main reasons that can happen: An author may use a word incorrec...
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TOEFL Reading: Übungspassagen (Mit anschließendem Quiz) Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction (1) There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on Earth, particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts conti...
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Reading Skills Section 2 An essay is a common type of writing. A standard essay consists of an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. In the first paragraph, the introduction, an author presents the main idea of the essay. This...
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Readings para Preparar el First Certificate (I) Social Networks Business applicationsSocial networks connect people at low cost; this can be beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact base. These networks often act as a custom...
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Reading Skills Section 3 To interpret means to make a sense of something or figure out what it's about. There are four important skills in interpreting what you read. First, learn to make inferences because the information in what y...
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READING SKILLS 3.3 Character and Setting The term fiction refers to writing that’s the product of someone’s imagination. Fiction uses pretend or created characters, rather than actual or real people. The category of fiction includes sho...
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English Lang Questions Read again the first part of the source, lines 1 to 3. List four things from this part of the source about Hale. 1 He has been in Brighton for 3 hrs 2 He was meant to murder someone 3 He had inky Fingers&n...
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Reading Skills Section 1 You're looking for clues when you glance at an ad, pick up a book, go online, or leaf through an article in a magazine. The term article refers to a complete piece of writing in a newspaper or maga...
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Reading Skills 1.2 The Process of Scanning The world around us is filled with words in print. They appear on billboards, on television screens, on websites, on subway posters, and on signs posted along interstate highways. We glimpse br...
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Section 2: READING Part 3 - B1 EXAM Section 2: READING Part 3 - B1 EXAM In this part of the exam you need to read a long text and answer 10 True/False questions. Read the text about some English villages. Then look at the sentences at the bottom of the ...
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Pre-Reading The purpose for reading affects how you read..... Previewing: BOOKS?NOVELS: Look at the title and graphics, reviews, summary and Author info., dedication Textbooks/websites/magazines/newspapers - Researching: Skimming...
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English exam English Study comprehension Simile = is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Metaphor = is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. Personifi...
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Part 4 - Interpreting what you read Important reading skills: Making inferences: When you make an inference, you come to a conclusion from facts. To infer something is to decide what's being said or written by reading between the lines. To imply means t...
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READING SKILLS 2.1 Following are some examples of paragraphs that have no stated topic sentence. Instead, the topic is implied. Read each paragraph carefully and then answer the questions that follow them. Maria had been raised in the f...
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Section 2: READING Part 1 - B1 EXAM Section 2: READING Part 1 - B1 EXAM This activity helps with the first part of the Reading exam according to the B1 level. In this part you have to look at very short texts, such as signs and messages, postcard...
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Example Grade A question What impression does Bryson create of Manchester as a city? For this question, show that you have understood what the non-fiction text is about and what the writer tells the reader. Make note if there is a shift...
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Insight Upp int WORKBOOK (unit 5) TEXT 1(page 36) There are nearly 7,000 languages being used around the world. More than 40% of those are endangered and likely to become extinct within the next 100 years. Different languages enabled us to see ...
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Untitled English notes How to tackle a comprehension question.Make your point, give evidence for your point and then explain how this evidence supports your point. (PEE)Point, Evidence and Explanation (PEE)Point:What is the ma...
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Evaluating Argumentative Articles Often you are faced with opposing arguments (pro and con) on an issue. How can you evaluate these arguments? The following are terms that you should consider when reading and evaluating argumentative articles. 1....
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READING SKILLS 3.3 Short Stories- A tale with fully developed theme, which can be read in one sitting Novella- A tale that's longer than a short story but shorter than a novel Novel- lengthy fictional story Prota...
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Word Choice Word choice refers to words that have been chosen to obtain particular effects, or to suggest particular meanings. Most words have 2 meanings, a denotation and a connotation. The denotation is the basic,simple, straig...
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Point Of View Notes Objective 1 Define The Different Types Of Point Of View Used By Authors First Person(a character of the story retells their experiences)-Pronouns that are used: I, Me, My, Mine, We, Our, Ours Lets the reader onl...
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Paper 2 Question 2 Write a summary of the differences between 'x' in the source A and 'y' in source B. Firstly, you will need to mention one important explicit idea from source A and put it into your own words. Secondly, you will need t...
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READING STRATEGIES - creado desde un Mapa Mental AFTER SUMMARISE THE MAIN IDEAS CHECK THE TASK INSTRUCTIONS ASK QUESTIONS Who, what, where, when, why, how... WHILE TAKE NOTES (WORDS, NOT SENTENCES) GUESS WORD MEANING FROM CONTEXT It helps you synthesize and integrat...
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These notes offer passages, questions and approaches to reading. Reading activities starts with questions to consider before reading, while Spiders - Reading offers a short factual text. The TOEFL sample passages provide another kind of reading practice.
For a first note, Reading activities is a useful starting point: its opening questions give you something to think about before the passage. If you prefer a story, the beginner note about the man who hated time offers a narrative to read.
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Read a passage once, then return to it and identify its main ideas. Where a note includes questions, use the text to support your answers. You can also use Word Choice to focus on language, or Evaluating Argumentative Articles to explore another aspect of reading.
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Which note is a good place to start?
Reading activities is a useful starting point because it asks questions before the passage. For a narrative, the beginner note about the man who hated time is another option. The intermediate reading about Canada offers a different text for students who want to move beyond a beginner passage.
What kinds of reading do the notes cover?
The collection includes short stories, a factual text about spiders and a reading about Canada. There are also notes on word choice and evaluating argumentative articles, as well as TOEFL sample passages. Some notes include questions or vocabulary alongside a text.
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