Reading is an Interactive Process

Can you guess

• Can you guess
• what the paragraph
• is about?

A newspaper is better than a magazine and on a seashore is better than a street. At first, it is better to run than walk. Also you may have to try several times. It takes some skill but it is easy to learn. Even young children can enjoy it. Once successful, complications are minimal. Birds seldom get too close. One needs lots of room. Rain soaks in very fast. Too many people doing the same thing can also cause problems. If there are no complications, it can be very peaceful. A rock will serve as an anchor. If things break loose from it, however, you will not get a second chance.

• A newspaper is better than a magazine and on a seashore is better than a street. At first, it is better to run than walk. Also you may have to try several times. It takes some skill but it is easy to learn. Even young children can enjoy it. Once successful, complications are minimal. Birds seldom get too close. One needs lots of room. Rain soaks in very fast. Too many people doing the same thing can also cause problems. If there are no complications, it can be very peaceful. A rock will serve as an anchor. If things break loose from it, however, you will not get a second chance.
• (Brandford & Johnson, in Aulls, 1982)

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Its physical make up is very similar to the make up of an orange.

• Its physical make up is very similar to the make up of an orange.
• Sometimes an orange has one seed in its center.
• This also has a single central giant seed about 760 miles in radius.
• This inner core serves to give it life, just like the orange seed gives it life.

Its interior is as liquid as the interior of an orange

• Its interior is as liquid as the interior of an orange
• However, the liquid of an orange is what we call orange juice.
• The liquid in this sphere is known as the outer liquid core.
• This liquid core is about 1400 miles in depth.