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You are a monument, without a tomb And are alive still, while your book does live And we have wits to read, and praise to give
In order to predict, you must …
How to Predict?
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Before Reading:
Using the skill of “Previewing”, predict what information you may find in the text, before you begin to read it in detail. For example, after looking at the title, you can ask yourself what you know and do not know about the subject before you read the text. Or you can formulate questions that you would like to have answered by reading the text. These exercises will help you focus more effectively on the ideas in a text when you actually start reading.
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could possibly have received. I still consider myself a trouper and have yet to miss a day of work. I take more pride in the fact that I can always be counted up than I do in how much I earn or how wellknow I am. What is the meaning of “trouper” and “have yet to miss a day of work”? What is the theme of the story?
Ben Jonson’s remark on Shakespeare: Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
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have a large vocabulary have a large information base know about cultural background know about writers and writing styles know about text types
What is “predicting”?
Thinking in advance about what to be read.
Why is “predicting” so important?
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It enables us to be aware of our goal in reading. It activates schemata: that is, it calls into mind any experiences and associated knowledge that we already have about the topic and the text. It helps us to focus in the reading process. It improves comprehension.
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Using knowledge of the subject matter to predict about content; Using knowledge about the author to predict about writing style and content.
Word Formation: n. suf.
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a. state, nature, condition: nationhood b. status, identity, rank, qualification: priesthood b. a group sharing a specified state or quality: neighborhood c. a period of time of being …: childhood (1)Knighthood was an ideal in medieval Europe. (2) I was less capable than he of telling truth from falsehood. (3) Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age. (4) His aunt is elected the representative of the whole sisterhood of nurses.
Reading Skill: Predicting
Reading Skill: Predicting
Does reading mean starting at the beginning and going word by word, stopping to look up every unknown vocabulary item, until the end? If your answer is “yes”, then you are relying exclusively on your linguistic knowledge. Reading is a “guessing game”. Reading – Guessing / Predicting – Reading – Proving / Disproving
Example
I, like many little girls, dreamed of being a ballet dancer. I practiced hard and at age 13, I was hired as an apprentice by the Minnesota Dance Theatre, a little ballet company in my hometown of Minneapolis. What do you think would happen to the author? Did she have to train hard? Did she become a famous dancer in her town, then in her country, then all over the world? Was there an accident that forced her to give up dancing? Obviously she didn’t have much school education. Could her lack of education affect her later life?
While reading the paragraph, we may have recalled our own childhood experiences, such as our dreams, our learning experiences, etc. How we associated the paragraph with our own experiences could have influenced what predictions we made. It doesn’t matter what predictions we could have made. The point is: keep guessing while reading.
When I was 17 I moved to Philadelphia to study with the Pennsylvania Ballet. Three years later I went to New York City, and eventually pursued an acting career. It seem the author became an actress. Was she successful? Who was she? In what films has she ever acted?
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a. b. c. d. (1) state, nature, condition: friendship rank, status, or office: leadership art, skill, or craft: craftsmanship a collective body: membership If your Lordship will give me time, I will produce the evidence. (2) Marriage is based on comradeship. (3) The Daily Echo has a readership of over ten million. (4)horsemanship, swordsmanship, penmanship
