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Extended Response: Example 1
Extra RLA Answers
Extra RLA Questions
Verb-Verb Agreement
The dog walks, sniffs, and barks.
The dog walked, sniffed, and barked.
Reading Passage Practice – Elder Abuse
Reading Passage Practice – Great Expectations
Reading Passage Practice – Missing Devices
Context
The meaning of a word can be inferred from its context.
Inference
Inference asks:  What can you infer from what you just read?
Detail
Detail asks:  What is a detail of what you just read?
Main Idea
Main Idea asks: Â What is the main idea of what you just read?
How to Follow a Reading Passage
Dangling Modifiers
Wrong: Â Having finished shopping, the grocery list had no more use.
Right: Â Having finished shopping, I had no more use for the grocery list.
Pronouns
He spoke to us.
Capitalization
Mr. and Mrs. John Doe visited Waterloo, Iowa.
Confusing Words
Punctuation
.      ,      ;      :      ’      ”      !      ?
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Subject-Verb Agreement
Sentence Structure
Subject   Verb
Bob        ate.
Grammar
Reading Comprehension: Three Key Questions
Reading Comprehension = Main Idea + Detail + Inference
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