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Biography Comprehension Strategies
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Biography Comprehension Strategies
📚 Part 1: Comprehension & Vocabulary
1. What is the main idea of the biography excerpt?
The subject overcame hardship and used their experience to help others.
The subject lived a quiet life with little public impact.
The subject's success was mostly due to luck rather than effort.
2. What can you infer about the subject’s motivation for their actions?
They were motivated by personal ambition and desire for recognition.
They wanted to address a problem they had experienced personally.
They followed the actions of others without thinking about consequences.
3. Which sequence shows events in the correct chronological order from the excerpt?
Childhood → Turning point → Public achievement
Public achievement → Turning point → Childhood
Turning point → Childhood → Public achievement
4. Check all reading strategies you used while reading the biography.
Reread confusing sentences
Made predictions about what might happen next
Annotated or highlighted key events
Looked up unfamiliar words
5. Match the vocabulary words from the excerpt with their meanings. Draw a line from each word to the correct definition.
1. resilient
2. advocate
3. pivotal
4. legacy
A. a long-lasting effect left after someone
B. to publicly support a cause or person
C. able to recover quickly from difficulties
D. of central importance; crucial
✏️ Part 2: Short Responses & Reflection
6. Summarise the subject’s life or role in one clear sentence (use evidence from the excerpt):
7. Give two pieces of evidence from the text that support your summary. Write each on a separate line:
8. Choose one unfamiliar or challenging word from the excerpt. Explain how context clues helped you determine its meaning and write a synonym:
9. Reflection — Which comprehension strategy helped you most today? How could you use that strategy when preparing your role play?
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