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English 1 11-Reading Comprehension Skills

This document discusses reading comprehension skills, including identifying the main idea of passages. It explains that for single paragraph passages, the main idea can be found at the beginning of the paragraph. For multiple paragraph passages, readers should examine the beginning of each paragraph to understand the overall main idea. The document also discusses answering stated detail questions by looking for specific pieces of information restated from the passage.

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English 1 11-Reading Comprehension Skills

This document discusses reading comprehension skills, including identifying the main idea of passages. It explains that for single paragraph passages, the main idea can be found at the beginning of the paragraph. For multiple paragraph passages, readers should examine the beginning of each paragraph to understand the overall main idea. The document also discusses answering stated detail questions by looking for specific pieces of information restated from the passage.

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ENGLISH 1

STIKMA 2021
Akhmad Fauzi, M.Pd.

READING COMPREHENSION
SKILLS
Skill 1

 Reading for main idea


 If a passage consists of only one paragraph,
you should study the beginning of that
paragraph to determine the main idea.
Example

What is the topic of this passage?


(A) The intelligence of John Dewey
(B) Distinctions made by John Dewey
(C) Dewey's ideas on the ability to reason
( D) How intelligence differs from reasoning in Dewey's works
Skill 1

 If a passage consists of more than one


paragraph, you should study the beginning of
each paragraph to determine the main idea.
Look at a multiple-choice example from the
Skill 1 example 2
Exercise 1
ANSWER STATED DETAIL
QUESTIONS
 A stated detail question asks about one piece
of information in the passage rather than the
passage as a whole.
 The answers to these questions are generally
given in order in the pas­sage, and the correct
answer is often a restatement of what is
given in the passage.
Exercise 2

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