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Interactive Reading

One passage, several kinds of question.

12 minutes · A free lesson from Reading

You read a passage and answer a series of questions about it: completing sentences, choosing the missing sentence, highlighting the answer in the text, identifying the main idea, and choosing a title.

Lesson quiz

Check what you have learned. Choose an answer to see whether it is right, and why.

Quick check: Which title should you choose?

  1. The one that covers the whole passage
  2. The one that matches the first sentence
  3. The most surprising one
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A: The one that covers the whole passage — The same goes for the main idea.

Quick check: How much should you highlight for “highlight the answer”?

  1. The whole paragraph
  2. Your own words
  3. The passage's exact words, no more than you need
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C: The passage's exact words, no more than you need — Highlight only the words that answer the question.

Quick check: What does Interactive Reading include?

  1. One question about many passages
  2. Several kinds of question about one passage
  3. Only spelling questions
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B: Several kinds of question about one passage — Completing sentences, the missing sentence, highlighting, the main idea and a title.

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