Sentences with phrase «text of a reading passage»

Just like a detective following the clues that will lead to the perpetrator of the crime, you, my friend, must use the clues hidden in the text of a reading passage in order to determine the meaning of difficult vocabulary words.

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In the Revised Standard Version (1946) this passage is set apart in small italic type, and the marginal note reads: «Other ancient authorities add 7:53 - 8:11 either here or at the end of this gospel or after Luke 21:38, with variations of the text.»

The text of the modern day Bible has surely gone through a similar ordeal through the passage of time, as many many many men have had their hands on shaping the text that we read today.

Well, just as you think I am not reading certain OT texts at face value, I think you are ignoring much of what these NT texts are saying, and not just these passages, but the whole tenor and focus of the ministry of Jesus.

I stemmed the flood of tears and rose to my feet, believing that this could be nothing other than a divine command to open the book and read the first passage I chanced upon; for I had heard the story of how Antony had been instructed by a gospel text.

Using Shakespeare instead of the scriptures as the source for their text, but without reading the passage to the end, they said with Hamlet:

«The reading of postliberal theology as antirealist can admittedly appeal to occasional unfortunate passages, but it seems to me a clear misreading of the texts taken as a whole,» he contends.

The text is one of those passages that ought to come at the end of a sermon, for there is nowhere to go except to your knees after it is read.

By inserting new passages into the text as expansions of the old ones, while leaving much of the earlier writing intact, he invited us to read the earlier expressions in light of the later ones.

Once I had gathered this important information from a study of the context of the passage, I was better able to serve the occasion of reading the text in the conference setting.

The reason I am summarizing it is because I want to begin looking at some of the key biblical passages which are affected by my proposal to see how we can read and understand these texts.

While I know that my proposal wreaks havoc on many traditional ways of reading some biblical passages, please know that just as with Romans 8:34, I am aware of these texts and simply understand them in a different light — in the light of the love and beauty of the crucified Christ.

But often these passages in the Old Testament will state that the instructions were given by God, and if we read these texts in the light of Jesus, then we understand that although God was not telling them to do such things, He nevertheless inspired them to write what they did so that He could take the blame for their sinful actions.

Instead, because one's understanding of the text constantly changes (unless he becomes an intellectual fossil), and because the reader himself changes (his history affects his reading), the dialogue with the Bible should be sustained, frequently even with the same passage.

«The passage is clearly a very slanted view of how to read the texts of the Old Testament.

It is to show the reader — especially those who are aware of the cosmic warfare elements of this passage — that something might be going on behind the scenes which a quick surface - level reading of the text does not initially reveal.

The text of the decision can be found here, but the key passage reads as follows:

Like the image - recognition software already deployed in commercial photo apps, these systems lend the impression that machines have become increasingly capable of replicating human cognition: identifying images or sounds, and now speed reading text passages and spewing back answers with human - level accuracy.

Soon after reading this passage I became a student of the metaphysical text A Course in Miracles and began to unlearn my false perception of myself.

2 X 50 Years ends with a moving tribute to French film criticism — using that term broadly enough to include precursors as well as poets, art critics, and filmmaker - theorists — by furnishing us with a honor roll of 15 individuals, from Denis Diderot to Serge Daney, each of whom is accorded a portrait, a page of text, and an offscreen recitation of a brief passage read by Mieville or Godard.

After students finish reading an assigned text, they post one of the following on the class website: a genuine question about what they read and a short attempt to answer it, a passage that resonated with them and a short explanation of why, or a pattern they identified with a short explanation of what that pattern implies about the whole text.

Rather than scrupulously avoiding the topic of death in Romeo and Juliet or God in the Mayflower Compact, our tests should include these the very passages — the ones that make these texts worth reading — so that educators are encouraged, not penalized, for teaching what is worth teaching.

Maybe you'll need a creation tool to help students demonstrate their understanding of a food chain, or an app that gives students access to short passages for a reading unit on informational text.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency prreading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency prReading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

The texts themselves were chosen by the leadership of my charter school network, Uncommon Schools, with guidance from both the Common Core text - selection criteria and the network's own curricular team The lesson plan sequence, questioning, activities, close reading passages, schema, and focuses were up to me and my co-teacher.

FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Title page • Native Americans of the Southwest reading passage with graphic organizer • Application / Closing / Higher Order thinking question • Answer Key for graphic organizer Students will research and analyze the lives and culture of the Native Americans of the Southwest region of the United States: present - day areas, groups, geography / climate, adaptations, cultures / spiritual rituals / roles of men and women Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary; lifting evidence from text Differentiation: graphic organizer; cooperative (students may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this resource?

FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Title page • Do Now / Motivation student - centered question • The Algonquian reading passage with graphic organizer • Application / Closing / Higher Order Thinking Question • Answer Key for Graphic Organizer Students will research how the Algonquian lived: location, tribes, homes, adaptation based on environment, role of women Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary; lifting evidence from text Differentiation: graphic organizer; cooperative (students may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this resource?

Students read a section of text to themselves before verbally summarizing the passage to a partner.

• Color by shapes • Color by counting • Color by addition and subtraction • Color by parts of speech • Sort the letters • Beginning sounds • Ending sounds • Color the words • Count the syllables • Solve the riddles • Word bank activity • Two comprehension passages with multiple text - based questions • Read, find, write and circle the parts of speech

This guided reading resource includes a pair of texts about Antarctica with four comprehension skills sheets to complete, providing reading passages and questions that are challenging and engaging.

This Earth Day bundle has 4 products and total 40 pages excluding covers and TOU, which includes the following activities: • Color by shapes • Color by counting • Color by addition and subtraction • Color by parts of speech • Sort the letters • Beginning sounds • Ending sounds • Color the words • Count the syllables • Solve the riddles • Word bank activity • Two comprehension passages with multiple text - based questions • Read, find, write and circle the parts of speech Note: Please check out the preview before purchasing my product.

Create text dependent questions for close reading passages based on the Depths of Knowledge (DOK) and aligned to the requirements of the standards and PARCC;

Contains - Alphabet (topic word for each letter)- Comic Summary (read a story and summarise it in comic form)- Hand (research a volcano in history and pull out main facts)- Imagination (descriptive writing prompt)- One Sentence Only (summarise each paragraph in a chosen text)- Positive and Negative effects (foldable sorting effects of volcanoes)- Storyteller (narrative writing prompt)- Structure of a volcano (information sheet for students to create a volcano diagram)- Types of volcano (foldable that involves matching names, description and picture)- Volcanic Eruptions Comprehension (information passage with questions)- Volcano cloze (information text with missing words about volcanoes)- Volcano explorer (gathering information from interactive voclano website)- Volcano Vocabulary (foldable involving matching topic words to definitions)- Witness vs. Scientist (foldable involving sorting statements)

The text passages on reading - comprehension tests are randomly chosen, usually divorced from any particular body of knowledge taught in school.

We investigated the automatic assessment of expressive children's oral reading of grade level text passages using a standardized rubric.

Since the suggested passage was several years above their reading level — and her students were unable to read it independently while also making sense of it — Papa asked one of her colleagues to record an audio version of the text.

If a student scores well on text - to - text (questions during reading) but lower on text understanding (questions after reading), it is possible that the student has adequate word recognition and vocabulary skills, but needs to learn how to synthesize information from different parts of a passage.

Students read challenging texts — Hamlet, The Great Gatsby — in class, then take an oral examination in which they argue a point one - on - one with their teacher about a particular passage from one of the texts.

It is accomplished better by having students read large, uninterrupted chunks of text and then strategically having them return to key passages for second - or third - draft reading and thinking.

Close reading is when a reader analyzes the details of a text to make interpretations and develop a deep understanding of the passage.

Practice writing across the curriculum with informational texts from a variety of subject areas, including many reading passages focused in the areas of English Language Arts, Science and Social Studies

Use of increasingly difficult texts since all of WriteToLearn's reading passages include a CCRS grade band to identify text complexity

Students demonstrate their understanding of literary and informational reading passages and give definitions of words based on their reading of texts, rather than on memorization.

The use of text - to - speech technology, which will read aloud the printed text, can be used for reading passages.

Repeated reading means that students read the same reading passages or texts repeatedly until a desired level of reading fluency is achieved.

Instead, students will be expected to determine the experts» opinions in the assigned reading passages — many of which are non-fiction, «informational texts» — and to regurgitate those views in their answers.

This reading comprehension packet, which includes 15 reading passages, is designed to help kids work toward the goals of reading Levels I and J text and answering text - based questions.

This packet, which includes 15 reading passages, is designed to help kids work toward the goals of reading Level F text and answering text - based ques

Play a video or read a passage of text.

In this article, I propose that the Kindle Popular Highlights database contains evidence that readers are re-appropriating commonplacing — the act of selecting important passages from a text and recording them in a separate location for later re-use — while reading public domain titles on the Kindle.