Module 1: Activity 2

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a.       What is corandic?

·         Corandic is an emurient grof with many fribs

b.      What does corandic grank from?

·         It granks from corite.

c.       How do garkers excarp the tarances from the corite?

·         Garkers excarp by glarcking the corite and starping it in tranker-clarped strobs.

d.      What does slorp finally frast?

·         The slorp finally frast a pragety, blinkant crankle: coranda.

e.      What is coranda?

·         Coranda is a cargut, grinkling corandic and borigen.

f.        How is corandic nacerated from the borigen?

·         The corandic is nacerated from the borigen by means of loracity.

g.       What do the garkers finally thrap?

·         Thus garkers finally thrap a glick, bracht, glupous graoant, corandic, which granks in many starps.

To be honest, I read this short text multiple times trying to find some literal meaning in what seemed like a foreign language. After realizing I would not be able to make “literal” sense of this passage I began to look at the text in a different way. I went back and used a test taking strategy. I first read the question in order to know what answer I was looking for. Then, I went back to the passage and found the answer right there. Did it make any sense? Not at all, at least not to me. The questions that were asked were simply recall questions and can be found by simply going back to the text. This is often what we, as teachers, ask our students to do on a comprehension test.

 

One question that I have after completing this activity is, do students really comprehend what they are reading, or they just recalling the information by going back into the text? This activity was an eye opener for me because I could read and answer the questions from the text, but in no way did I comprehend the passage. Is this the type of assessment we are using in our classrooms? If it is, are we truly assessing students correctly? In my opinion, this is how many standardized tests and school based books compose questions for our students. As teachers, we need to create questions that truly assess student’s comprehension and not just recall.