Word order

Skilled readers are able to employ the cueing systems in order to make meaning of what they are reading. As readers, when we come across a word or sentence that we do not understand, if we grasp the concepts of the phonological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic systems, we will be able to successfully use our knowledge to uncover the meaning of the word and comprehend the task at hand, whether it be during reading, writing, speaking, or listening. Having a solid understanding of these cueing…

Wordiness Passive voice Misplaced modifier Stylistic inconsistency Question 14 What word or phrase best characterizes the problem affecting the following passage? Conaster goes on to discuss the famous ill-fated excursion by Adolph Ruth that ended six months later with the discovery of Ruth’s decapitated head. Tense error Usage error Spelling error Apostrophe error Question 15 What word or phrase best characterizes the problem affecting the following passage? With the help of…

meanings, or even meaningless words. In today’s day and age, phones and computers have overtaken the way we communicate. There are technologies like e-books that have led to the decrease of library traffic marginally, but programs like OverDrive were resorted to in order for libraries to keep up with the growing demand for them. The question that arises within these gadgets is distraction from these mediums of connection. Distraction not in the traditional sense of the word, but the distraction…

First she needs to work ono sounding out unfamiliar words. Based on the inventory, she tends to either skip the word all together or take the first two letters of a word and say the first word that comes to mind with the same beginning letters; whether it makes sense or not. Since she has trouble sounding out words, this interrupts her fluency, which in-effect leads to lower comprehension percentages. This is basically a cycle that…

Just like selecting words for vocabulary instruction there are many different philosophies of ways in which is consider teaching high quality vocabulary instruction. The two I am going to highlight on Marzano and Graves. Dr. Robert Marzano suggest that there are 2,800 basic vocabulary terms students should know. He suggest placing those terms into semantic clusters. That means teacher places words that are related together, in order to build scaffolding. Then from those words the teacher can…

Title What do the words of the title suggest to you? What denotations are presented in the title? What connotations or associations do the words posses? Colossus refers to the Colossus of Rhodes, which is one of the seven wonders of the world. The Colossus of Rhodes was built to celebrate victory over the ruler of Cyprus in 305 BC. Denotations: The poem is about a new statue that resembles the Colossus in Ancient Greece. Connotations: Colossus of Rhodes was a statue in Greece that had…

there are other ones the reader has to use too in order to get a better comprehension of the text. On the one hand, we have the strategies which are part of the top down approach: inferring, making connections, predicting, visualizing, schemata, and context clues. The first strategy known as inferring refers to the process of “reading between the lines” (Moore, n./d.); this process basically consists on using the information available in a text in order to guess the information that is not…

regardless of native tongue, use many levels to our language, and we shift between those levels, depending on who we perceive our audience to be at any given time. Tan tells us to be more conscious of our different uses of English throughout our lives, in order to focus ourselves on intent instead of complexity. She warns us through events of…

From the beginning, Genie was at a far greater disadvantage than Helen Keller. Genie endured a decade of severe abuse, neglect and social isolation. While their situations are both similar, their life experiences are what made their paths to discovering language very different. Genie had to learn how to trust and form relationships before she could embark on her journey. She would have to overcome her life experiences to progress forward. After Genie was found and went through the process of…

saying he approves the “audacious, purifying, elemental move”. All three words he uses here have positive connotations that imply this way of life is superior. The word audacious has synonyms such as bold, courageous and even heroic. Describing the person that lives this way of life as bold, courageous and heroic does not only suggest a positive attitude, but also a sense of admiration. Who doesn’t like a bold hero? The second word, “purifying” Larkin uses is quite straightforward. Purity is…