Friday, June 14, 2013

Module 1: Activity 2

What is a corandic?  A corandic is an emurient grof with many fribs.

What does corandic grank from?  It granks from corite.

How do garkers excarp the tarances from the corite?  By glarcking the corite and staring it in the tranker-clarped storbs.

What does the slorp finally frast?  Pragety, blickant crankle: coranda

What is coranda? Coranda is a cargurt, grinkling corandic and borigen

How is the corandic nacerated from the borigen?  By means of loracity

What do the garkers finally thrap?  They thrap a glick, bracht, glupous grapant, corandic, which granks in many steps.

How is it that you were able to answer such questions?
This passage was difficult to read because the words were fictionalized and didn't make any sense to me.  Some of the words actually reminded of a Dr. Seuss' book.  I was able to answer the questions because I went to the passage and looked for the key words that were in the questions.  The way the text and questions were written you don’t even have to read the passage or comprehend it for that matter to answer the questions.  You just look back and find the key words and you can determine the answer.

What does this experience suggest about the kinds of “comprehension” questions found in workbooks and on standardized tests?

When students are completing workbooks and standardized tests, they want to hurry up and finish.  They basically skip to the questions without even reading the passage.  This experience suggest that activities like these are not always the best way to determine if students have a full grasp and actually understand the information presented to them.

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