Sentence examples for comprehension exercise from inspiring English sources

Rosa Dean's fourth graders were practicing a reading comprehension exercise; their reading scores help determine the school's rating.

As a homework task, ask your class to write a short story about a chosen habitat or complete a reading comprehension exercise about forest wildlife, the seashore or Sahara desert.

This year's written English exam in the state has been the subject of a petition signed by 35,000 students who felt the reading comprehension exercise, based on an extract from Henry Roth's 1934 novel Call It Sleep, was unfair because it used archaic vocabulary.

I remember writing very short stories as comprehension exercises for my college students.

For teachers looking to use insects to inspire literacy tasks, PrimaryLeap has a number of reading comprehension exercises about insects including beetles, mosquitoes and the praying mantis.

Instead of innovation, Bronx Prep's independence fostered uncommon collaboration and consistency across classrooms, with monthly reading skills posted in the hallway, timed comprehension exercises in science and history, and vocabulary lists even in music and math.

"We think that children's understanding, empathy, imagination and creativity are developed best by reading whole books, not by doing comprehension exercises or short excerpts and not from ticking boxes or giving one word answers," they add.

The 40-day countdown to last month's standardized tests was full of timed comprehension exercises, including a musical-chairs style game where students roamed the room, reading a passage at each station and coloring in a bubble answer sheet along the way.

The students are also quizzed, in something akin to a live reading-comprehension exercise.

If the students had been primed by the first reading-comprehension exercise, they felt benign envy toward Hans (essentially, "I could do that, too, if I tried"); if they'd been primed by the second exercise, they felt slightly more admiration (something like, "I shouldn't even try; I'll just admire him from afar").

In one study, thirty-four college students were given one of two fake reading-comprehension exercises.