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Unit 8: Paragraph Writing

1. __________Based on a study by the Literacy Volunteers of American reading scores can Notes
improve by one grade level with 35 to 45 hours of tutoring.
2. __________The United States Department of Education states that the average kindergarten
student has seen more than 5,000 hours of television.
3. __________ The American Council of Life Insurance say people with less than 6 years of
schooling are 4 times more likely to be receiving public assistance than those attaining
6 years or more.
4. __________According to a study made by the National Assessment for Education Progress
of 2l-25 year olds, 80% couldn’t read a bus schedule, 73% couldn’t understand a newspaper
story, 63% couldn’t follow written map directions, and 23% couldn’t locate the gross
pay-to-date amount on a paycheck stub.
5. __________ The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2000 national reading
assessment of fourth-grade students found that reading for fun had a positive relationship
to performance on the NAEP reading scores.
6. __________ The U. S. Department of Education’s Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
found that children who were read to at least three times a week as they entered kindergarten
had significant increases in skill mastery in the reading content areas over the children
who were not read to.

Main Idea: Defining Various Types of Books
1. __________ Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, and Swamp Angel are fun tall tales to read.
2. __________ Mysteries are fictional stories which can not be explained or a crime that is
not solved until the end of the story.
3. __________ Historical stories take place in a particular time period in the past.
4. __________ Poetry collections are usually found in the non-fiction section of the library
under the Dewey Decimal Classification numbers 808—811.
5. __________ Students enjoy reading futuristic or science fiction stories.
6. __________ An autobiography is the story of a real person’s life, written or told by that
person.

Practice 2 - Multiple Choice
1. (1) Some readers may be uncomfortable over Louis Sachar’s use of the word “Negro” in
the book Holes. (2) In Chapter 25 of Holes Sachar refers to Sam, the onion man, as a
Negro which simply means black in the Spanish, Portuguese and ancient Italian languages.

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