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Dr. Judith M. Newman

Constructing Meaning
ACTIVITY 2—Sense From Nonsense

A MARDSAN GIBERTER FOR FARFIE

Glis was very fraper. She had denarpen Farfie's mardsan. She didn't talp a giberter for him. So she conplanted to plimp a mardsan binky for him. She had just sparved the binky when he jibbled in the gorger.

"Clorsty mardsan!" she boffed.

"That's a crouistish mardsan binky," boffed Farfie, "but my mardsan is on Stansan. Agsan is Kelsan."

"In that ruspen," boffed Glis, "I won't whank you your giberter until Stansan."

Now answer the following questions using the language of the passage.

  1. Why was Glis fraper?
  2. What did Glis plimp?
  3. Who jibbled in the gorger when Glis sparved the binky?
  4. What did Farfie bof about the mardsan binky?
  5. Why didn't Glis whank Farfie his giberter?

  • What does this experiment help you understand about reading?
  • What strategies were you using?
  • What "sense" did you make of this story?

 

ACTIVITY 3 – Getting The Word

 

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