Literacy blog 7


 The book that I read I think was about different characteristics of things. I didn’t understand much of this book, I think because it relied on knowledge that I don’t yet have. Each page had two pictures of things and each picture had one or two sentences using a word pertaining to the picture. The back of the book had some definitions that helped me understand but there's still a lot that I didn’t catch. I think there are books that are pretty common in English that are like this book as well. I think usually they use the context of the sentences to help you understand the word central to the sentences, but I also didn’t understand much of the sentences even apart from the word so it didn’t help too much for me right now. Oh, also the words were really tiny which I think was affecting my ability to smoothly read the Kama. Maybe I’ll try again when I’ve spent more time studying.  

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