1.7 Reading Comprehension

"Ah, much better!" he said to himself as he wiped himself as he wiped his forehead. "Aha!" laughed the Sun. "What do you say yo that,my friend?" he asked the Wind. :The cloak has been removed!" he chuckled loudly.

The Wind grew quiet. He knew the the right strategy had worked.

"I accept, O sun, that you are more powerful," he said in a controlled voice. Once again, the sun shone with comfortable warmth and the wind blew gently  about. the Traveller whistled a merry tune and continued on his journey.


A.  Answer these questions.

1. Why did the sun and the Wind feel they were important?
2. What did the two of hem quarrel about?
3. how did the they decide to test their power?
4. What did the wind do? Did he succeed?
5. What did the sun do? What was the result?
6. Who was the winner? What is your opinion of his strategy?

1.6 Skimming

*Skimming is a reading technique  that can help you to
          read more quickly
         decide if the text is interesting and whether you should read it in more detail.

*Skimming is a fast reading technique. Use it to obtain the gist of a piece of text (i.e. to quickly identify  the main ides in the text).

           Identifying Main Ideas

The main idea of a paragraph may be found in the first or last sentence, or even in the middle of the  paragraph.

If a main idea is repeated in a  slightly different way, its meaning will often become clear.

Sometime, it is repeated in the closing sentence.
          
  The main idea of a story tells what the story is mostly about. Details in a story provide more information about the main idea.

1.5 Predicting Outcomes

When you read,the clues in a story can help you figure out what will happen next. This is called predicting an outcome
often you can predict what happen by thinking about what has just happen

1.4 Drawing Conclusions

Drawing conclusions refers to information that is implied or inferred. This means that the information is
never clearly stated.

Sometimes a passage may contain ideas that are not stated directly. Then you must draw a conclusion.
when you do this, you decide what facts mean

1.1 Fact or opinion

A fact is a statement that can be verified and backed up with evidence.
the 2008 Summer Olympic Game were held in Beijing, China,fromAugust 8 to 24,2008.
An opinion is based on a personal belief or view. It is notbased on evidence that can be verified. Letters
to the Editor in a newspaper are a good example of opinions.

1.2 Understanding Cause and effect

Identifying Relationships
Events are often related because one event causes another to happen.
this is called a cause-effect relationship
Mark ate too much at the party and had a stomach ache.
Cause:Mark ate too much in the party.
Effect:He had a stomach ache.

1.3 Using Context Clues

Using Context Cluse
Study this example.
The gown was hideous. It was so ugly that no one bought it.
What does hideous mean here? If you do not know the meaning,there are cluse to help you. The phrases
so ugly and no one bought it are context clues. They help you figure out that hideous means very ugly.


When you are reading,you may come to a word you do not know. Sometimes you can figure out the meaning of the word from its context. when you figure out a word's meaning from its context, you find other ideas and words around it that give you clues to its meaning
Synonyms as Context Clues
Sometimes a sentence contains a synonym for aword you do not know. The context of the sentence tells you that the two words are synonyms