Answer:
Prediction strategy improves;
- Active thought process
- Critical thinking
- Active reading
- Improves Concentration
- Finding answers to the question (problem solving)
All the above factors improve student's overall comprehension.
Explanation:
Prediction strategy is a technique to predict what will happen next or throughout the text by using text title, chapter names, headings, sub-headings, and pictures.
Prediction encourages the students to carefully think, and analyze the available information and prior knowledge to ask questions and find possible answers to those questions.
It also improves recalling and using prior knowledge learned from books, society, and personal experiences. This will make students actively involved with the reading process.
Making predictions will also encourage and improve students' critical thinking. They will analyze, would make claims, find evidences, and would use trial and error.
In short prediction strategy improves students' concentration, active thinking and reading, critical thinking, use of prior knowledge, and make the reading process interesting and useful.
Answer:
The bushes are dancing because:
4. The birds are hopping around in the branches.
Explanation:
The passage we are analyzing here clearly states that it is because of the birds that the bushes seem to be dancing:
<em>[...] and the bushes fairly danced with birds.</em>
<em>[...] as the small gray birds hopped on the swaying branches.</em>
The birds are hopping, stretching their wings, puffing out their chests, all the while making the bushes' branches sway. Why does the author use the word "dancing" to describe the movement of the branches, then? This is a technique called personification. Bushes cannot dance but, by saying so, the author conveys the idea that the way the bushes are moving is beautiful, rhythmic, hypnotizing, just like dancing.
Answer:
Simile
Explanation:
The speaker thoughts, (inanimate) is floating up like moths (animate) among branches of perfect trees all night long.
The speaker is deep in thoughts so much they suddenly developed wings and started floating as a kite would or in this case a moth among branches. These branches are also hindrances because it could get stuck in them, and because it got stuck, he had to do the thinking all night.
So far, there was no breakthrough in his thoughts.
Envision someone lying awake in bed all night and staring at the ceiling in the dark, left alone with troubled or pleasant thoughts.
Answer:
commas are needed before coordinating conjunctions, after dependent clauses
Because Atticus is older then the other fathers of the children at her school, she doesn't think her father matches up
