Question:i am an English teacher, and i teach grade 6 boys. i need some passages as a reading about codes, pastimes and spies. also i need some funny exercises as grammar and activities. can you help me??

Answers:Some good websites to check out are ABCteach.com, edhelper.com, enchantedlearning.com, or learningplanet.com. This is where i get a majority of my comprehension passages from. Usually, i have to change the questions though in order to make them more challenging for my enrichment students.

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Question:Rules of Reading and Comprehension, Letter by Letter, Word by Word and Passage by Passage? For example: From the Beatles: " I Read the News Today" How to read this as a passage, as a rhythm of words, word by word (I, Read, The, News, Today) and as each letter by letter ( I stand for, R stands for, e stands for, a stands for, d stands for etc.) and back to the Comprehension of the Passage until Contentment kicks in or not, but HOW! Gema Suparmanputra Onbekend to answer that: "Only be Kind, when You Don't Feel Terrorized". Still would like to learn the rules...

Answers:I can't remember either not being able to read or having any trouble learning to read, and I remember being three. It's always been second nature. I'm pretty sure I see all the letters, recognize words, and read whole passages, because I am a champion speller with a mammoth vocabulary, but I have one hell of a time with Indonesian names and the like. I have to stop and sound out "Gema Suparmanputra Onbekend" as if I'm in first grade.

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Question:Hello, I am currently studying for SAT. I have a problem in Critical Reading section. In Short-Passage Reading Comprehension, I generally do good, but I do poorly on the Long-Passage Reading Comprehension. I try skimming and others but I always end up not really get the materials, and skimming seemed not to work on Non-Fiction passage. What kind of methods or strategies do you use when handling SAT-Critical Section: Long-Passage Reading Comprehension? How does skimming work on the Non-Fiction passages?

Answers:I'm assuming your problem is you have trouble paying attention while you're reading the passage? My advice: read it sentence by sentence. In your head, literally visualize what the text is saying. It takes longer, but it definitely helps.

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Question:Read the following passage, and then answer the questions: On a September day in 1991, two Germans were climbing the mountains between Austria and Italy. High up on a mountain pass, they found a body of a man lying on the ice. At that height (3,200 meters) the ice is usually permanent. But 1991 had been an especially warm year. The mountain ice had melted more than usual and so the body had come to the surface. It was laying face downward. The skeleton was in perfect condition, except for a large wound in the head. There was still skin on the bones and the remains of some clothes. The hands were still holding the wooden handle of an axe. On the feet there were simple leather and cloth boots. Nearby was a pair of gloves made of tree bark and a holder for arrows. Who was this man? How and when had he died? Everybody had a different answer to these questions. The mountain climbers who had found the body said it seemed thousands of years old. But others thought that it might be before this century. Perhaps it was the body of a soldier who died in World War I. In fact several World War I soldiers had already been found in that area of the mountains. On the other hand, a Swiss woman believed it might be her father. He had died in these mountains 20 years before and his body had never been found. A- Answer the following questions: 4- What struck the two German climbers about the body? And what is ment by the word (struck) in the previous question?

Answers:The word "struck" is being used in its connotative sense, in other words, not as the dictionary definition of struck/strike which means to hit. Rather, it refers to what the Germans "noticed about the man in the ice; what was particularly interesting, unusual, out of the ordinary, important. Now that you know what the question means, what do you think the two Germans particularly noticed about the body in the ice? This part you can answer yourself.

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