1. Personal knowledge and experience
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Personal knowledge and experience

2. Comprehension means understanding.
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Comprehension means understanding.
The best way to understand a text is to ask yourself questions as you read it.
The answers to some questions are easy to find, while the answers to others are more difficult to work out.

3. What is this paragraph about?
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Your personal experience and knowledge can help you make connections between characters, objects, events and ideas in a text.
What is this paragraph about?
They are very hot places. Temperatures can reach 60 degrees Celsius during the day. They are also very dry places and consist mainly of sand. Sometimes underground water bubbles to the surface, creating an oasis.

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Although the paragraph doesn’t mention the word desert, your personal experience and knowledge from what you have seen, heard or read tells you that it is describing a desert.

5. Which words and phrases helped you make the connection to a desert?
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Which words and phrases helped you make the connection to a desert?
They are very hot places. Temperatures can reach 60 degrees Celsius during the day. They are also very dry places and consist mainly of sand. Sometimes an underground water bubbles to the surface, creating an oasis.

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