Reading Aloud p5 2022

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INTRODUCTION :
By raising our student’s awareness of reading as a skill that requires
active engagement and by teaching explicable reading strategies, we help our
students to develop good pronunciation, articulation, rhythm, fluency and accuracy.

GOALS :
- good pronunciation
- use of appropriate rhythm and stress to achieve well-paced,
fluent reading
- to build important literacy skills such as comprehension

PROCESS :
Select topics which are related to students’ interests and experiences or
explore universal contemporary themes and issues.

DURING READING :
• read with a purpose in mind and give complete attention
to the reading task
• create visual images
• focus on unity and coherence, articulation, and good pronunciation
• identify with and develop an understanding of the characters (story)

AFTER READING :
• reread important words when necessary
• paraphrase and summarize major ideas
• recognize how particular elements create moods or tones
• seek additional information from other sources as needed or desired

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Honorary Advisor :
Bro. Dr. Monthol Prathumarach
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Bro.Manit Sakonthawat, M.A.
Bro.Pathanant Chaiyara
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CONTENTS

Language Confusion 4

Emily’s Secret 6

Gorilla 8

Soccer Tryouts 10

A Yes Man 12

First Time at Disneyland 14

Animal Lovers? 16

What is an Earthquake? 18

Pyramids 19

Experimenting on Animals 21

The Longest Wall in the World 22

Hacker Steals Millions 24

The Donkey and The Little Dog 26

Hide and Seek 28

Japan’s most famous dog 31

The Mummies of Osiris 33

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Language Confusion

Laura is at the airport. She waits for her
flight. Her flight is to Berlin, and it is 4 hours
away. Laura walks around the airport and looks
at the shops. She has a nice time.
After an hour she wants to visit the
bathroom. She searches for it, but she doesn’t
find it.
“Where is the bathroom?” she asks herself.
She looks and looks but she can’t find it. She
starts asking people where it is.

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Laura : “Excuse me sir, could you please tell me
where is the bathroom?”
Man : “You mean the restroom, right?”
Laura : “No, I mean the bathroom.”
Man : “Well, the restroom is over there.” He
says and walks away.
Laura doesn’t understand. She asks a lady:
“Excuse me madam, could you please tell me
where the bathroom is?”
“The restroom is over there,” the lady
answers and walks away.
Laura is confused. “What’s their problem?
I need to use the bathroom and they send me
to rest? I don’t need a restroom, I need the
bathroom!”
After a while Laura gives up. She feels
tired of all this walking and asking. She
decides that maybe they are all right and she
does need to rest.
She walks to the restroom. Now she is
surprised. She realizes the restroom is actually
the name for a public bathroom.

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Emily’s Secret

Emily is 8 years old. She lives in a big
house. She has a huge room. She has many
toys and she has a lot of friends. But Emily is
not happy. She has a secret.
She doesn’t want to tell anyone about her
secret. She feels embarrassed. The problem is
that if nobody knows about it, there is no one
that can help her.

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Emily doesn’t write her homework. When
there is an exam, she gets sick. She doesn’t
tell anyone, but the truth is she can’t read and
write. Emily doesn’t remember the letters of the
alphabet.
One day, Emily’s teacher finds out. She
sees that Emily can’t write on the board. She
calls her after class and asks her to tell the truth.
Emily says, “It is true. I don’t know how to
read and write”. The teacher listens to her. She
wants to help Emily. She tells her, “That’s ok.
You can read and write if we practice together”
So Emily and her teacher meet every day
after class. They practice together. Emily works
hard. Now she knows how to read and write!

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Gorilla

The Gorilla is an ape who is manlike,
called Anthropoids, and is the largest and most
powerful of the primates, the mammal order.
There are other human traits such as their own
social system and social organizations.
In their society they have established and
appointed different social positions. Just as
we would elect the President of our country,
so would a group of gorilla select their leader.
The gorilla, like man, will bend his brow when
he is unhappy. According to the report of

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scientists, the gorilla has different emotional
reaction like a child. As they like to live
together, they rarely quarrel among themselves.
Nevertheless, they have the temperament of a
human child.
The gorilla spends most of its life on the
ground, although it is able to climb trees. The
animals move around in bands consisting of a
large male accompanied by one or two females
and their young of various age. A new camp
is prepared each evening. A group of gorillas
will rarely spend two nights in succession in the
same spot.
The gorilla is generally considered to be
lower in intelligence than the chimpanzee and
the orangutan, Although there are instances
where the gorilla has exhibited considerable
mental ability, it is not mechanically inclined
like the orangutan or a showman like the
chimpanzee. A young gorilla is exceedingly
playful like a child, and it is afraid of being left
alone in the dark, as a child.

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Soccer Tryouts

Howard was never the athletic type. In
fact he was always the fat kid. People made
fun of him for his size. Howard wanted to
change that. He wanted to be more healthy. He
wanted to get into sports. He saw a flyer for
soccer tryouts. Howard never played soccer,
but he watched it on TV. Howard had one
week to get ready before tryouts.

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He watched soccer games on his TV for
two hours. He bought a soccer ball and kicked
it around at home and at the park. He bought the
book “How to Play soccer.” He asked his dad
to play with him, too. Howard felt like he was
a great soccer player! He was ready! He went
to tryouts. There were at least fifty boys trying
out. Howard got nervous. They all looked like
they knew what they were doing. They could
bounce the ball on their heads, juggle the ball
with their knees, and kick the ball far.
The coach set up a game for the boys to
play. Howard was on the “red” team. Someone
passed the ball to Howard. Howard stopped
in the middle of the field. “What are you
doing, man?” his teammate asked. Howard took
a deep breath and told himself he could do it.
Howard got his head back into the game. He
caught the ball with his foot and made a goal.
He couldn’t believe it; no one could. Howard
made the team.

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A Yes- Man

Paul tried hard to please everyone and had
a hard time saying no to anything. When people
asked him to do exciting things, Paul said yes,
so people would think he’s a fun guy. He also
said yes to exciting things because he thought
life was too short to not try new things. When
people asked him to do favors for them, Paul
said yes because he wanted people to like him.
His agreement to everything was a big prob-
lem when he was busy with homework, chores,
or any other personal commitments. One time

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he had a test that was worth 50% of his final
grade, and the day before it, he decided to go
skydiving with his neighbor. Skydiving took
about five hours, and Paul couldn’t get home
until 11 p.m. By then he was tired and found it
hard to focus on studying.
Another time Paul’s friend asked if he could
turn in her paper for her at 3 p.m. Paul had to
be at his soccer game at 3:10 p.m. Any other
person would have said no, but not Paul. Paul
turned in the paper for his friend, ran to the gym
to change, and them arrived at the soccer game
10 minutes late.

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First Time at Disneyland

Disneyland is an iconic place. There are
only a few Disney resorts in the world. There
is one in California, Florida, Japan, France, and
Hong Kong. The one in Florida was the largest.
Kids, teens, and adults all like Disneyland.

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There is something at Disneyland for everyone,
which is like any other amusement park.
Sunny had never been to Disneyland.
She remembered when everyone was talking
about Disneyland in her 2nd grade. They were
talking about the rides, fireworks, and scenery
there. Sunny felt so left out of the conversation.
Her parents never took her because it was too
expensive. One time, her friend invited her to
go, but Sunny did not want to spend so much
money at one time. Now Sunny was 18 and had
a job as a cashier. She wasn’t making a lot, but
she saved just over $800 in her bank account.
Sunny invited her closest friends to go to
Disneyland with her. They went on a Thursday,
so the lines were shorter. Sunny immediately
fell in love with Disneyland. It was a dream
that came true. It was everything her friends
said it would be. Sunny went on almost all
the rides and took pictures with all the Disney
mascots. At the end of the day, she and her
friends watched the fireworks

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Animal Lovers?

Over half the homes in Britain have pets
and as a result, the British spend almost a
thousand million pounds a year on domestic
animals. In fact, many people treat their pets
like members of the family. Pets can actually
enhance our lives and health. Childless couples
often keep a pet because they need to play the
role of parent to strengthen their identity as
couple. Lonely, elderly people may keep a pet,
such as a cat or a dog for company or protection.

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Pets have also been used in therapy to help
retarded youngsters develop a sense of
responsibility and self-worth.
However, while we treat our own animals
with love and devotion, do we care about the
way the society at large treat animals? In 2000,
almost three million experiments on animals
took place. These included warfare experiments
and the testing of drugs, cosmetics and cleaning
fluids. Animals are also slaughtered for their
meat, skins and fur. In many cases, these
animals are kept in terrible conditions and
are cruelly treated by private companies and
governments alike. However, thanks to PETA
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
and Uncaged (organisation which fights
vivisection in the UK), there is a light at the end
of the tunnel. With slogans like “Buy a fur and
slip into something dead” or brochures on the
cruelty of vivisection, these organisations
are forcing consumers, private industry and
governments to examine their consciences.

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What is an Earthquake?

An earthquake is a sudden movement in
the Earth’s crust which produces vibration.
These vibrations may be detectable only by
sensitive instruments called seismographs, or
they may kill thousands as they destroy cities.
Many earthquakes are caused when rocks move
along faults. Severe earthquakes are most
common near the edges of the “plates” in
the Earth’s crust, such as around the Pacific
Ocean, along the mid-Atlantic ridge and in the
Mediterranean and South-West Asian regions.
They occur when the plates move. Some
earthquakes are caused by volcanic action,
explosions and other factors. Earthquakes under
the sea trigger huge waves called tsunamis.

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Pyramids

The Great Pyramid at Giza is one of the
world’s most amazing landmarks. Rising high
above the Sahara Desert in the Giza region
of northern Egypt, the Great Pyramid stands
some 450 feet into the burning desert sky and
occupies an area of 13 acres. The rough climate
of the Sahara has actually caused the pyramid
to shrink 30 feet from its original height.
The pyramid was such an amazing feat of

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engineering that it remained the tallest structure
in the world for over 3800 years! The entire
pyramid was originally faced with polished
limestone to make it shine brilliantly in the sun.
Most Egyptologists, scientists who study
ancient Egypt, agree that the Great Pyramid
was built around 2560 B.C., a little more than
4,500 years ago. It took tens of thousands of
workers twenty years to build. The pyramid
contains over two million stone blocks.
Although most of the blocks weigh two or three
tons, some weigh up to 80 tons!
The Great Pyramid of Giza was ordered
built by the Pharaoh Khufu as a magnicif ent tomb.
His vizier (advisor) Hemon is credited with
being the pyramid’s architect. Khufu’s pyramid
is actually part of a complex of pyramids that
includes the Pyramid of Khafre, the smaller
Pyramid of Menkaure, a variety of smaller
pyramids and structures, and the Great Sphinx.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last remaining
of the Seven Wonders of the World.

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Experimenting on Animals

Life processes are similar in all animals
with backbones. So physiologists can find out
a lot about the human body by studying animals
such as frogs, rats and rabbits. Sometimes
research involves the death of these animals.
But physiologists take great care not to hurt the
animals. The animals are usually put to sleep
during the experiments so they do not feel pain.
Many people think animals should not be used
for experiments. But it is only by physiological
research that medicine has been able to
advance. Polio is a disease that attacks the
nerves. Millions of people have been protected
from polio by a fluid called a vaccine. Tissue
from monkeys is used to make the vaccine.

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The Longest Wall in the World

The Great Wall of China winds across the
country like a giant stone snake. It is 2,400
kilometers long. The wall crosses mountains
and rivers. It reaches from the ocean on the
east to the desert on the west.
The Chinese began their wall more
than 2,000 years ago. They worked on it for
hundreds of years. The Chinese wanted to keep
out their enemies. At the bottom, the wall is 25
feet wide. At the top, it is about 15 feet wide.
The sides of the wall are made of stone and
brick, while the inside is filled with earth.

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Parts of the wall rise as high as a
three-story building. Placed 100 yards apart are
tall towers. Lookouts could stand in the towers
to watch for enemies approaching. The road on
top of the wall is wide enough for two wagons
to pass.
If we were to build such a wall now, we
would use modern machines. But the Chinese
had to build the wall by hand. If the wall were
in the United States, it would reach from the
state of New York to Nebraska. The Great
Wall of China is the longest wall that has ever
been built.

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Hacker Steals Millions

The man was a hacker. He was a thief.
He knew computers. He knew them inside out.
He was like a pickpocket. He picked everyone’s
pocket. He picked everyone’s bank account in
America. Everyone with a bank account lost
money. Millions of Americans have bank
accounts. All of these Americans lost money.
But they didn’t know it. Not a single victim
noticed the theft. Not a single victim called the

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police. “We got lucky,” said a police detective.
“He cheated on his fiancée. She called us. But
we’re unlucky, too. We have no evidence. We
only have her story. He might get away with
his crime. He might get away with millions.
He transferred all the money to another country.
There’s no way we can trace the money.
He is very smart. Why? He stole only one
penny from every bank account in America.
Who cares about a penny?”

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The Donkey and The Little Dog

A man had a little dog, and he was very
fond of it. He would pat its head, and take it
on his knee, and talk to it. Then he would give
it little bits of food from his own plate.
A donkey looked in at the window and
saw the man and the dog.
“Why does he not make a pet of me?” said
the donkey.

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“It is not fair. I work hard, and the dog
only wags its tail, and barks, and jumps on its
master’s knee. It is not fair.”
Then the donkey said to himself, “If I do
what the dog does, he may make a pet of me.”
So the donkey ran into the room. It brayed
as loudly as it could. It wagged its tail so hard
that it knocked over a jar on the table. Then it
tried to jump on to its master’s knee.
The master thought the donkey was mad,
and he shouted, “Help! Help!” Men came running
in with sticks, and they beat the donkey till it
ran out of the house, and they drove it back to
the field. “I only did what the dog does,” said
the donkey,” and yet they make a pet of the dog,
and they beat me with sticks. It is not fair.”

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Hide and Seek

In the wild, it often comes down to
predator and prey, the hunter and the hunted.
As you can imagine, most organisms want
to stay alive. They have developed ways of
adapting to severe habitats, and hiding or
escaping from those who would like to eat
them. So how do they do it? One very helpful
adaptation is called camouflage. You may have
been surprised by an animal that was using
camouflage in the past. It blended into its

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surroundings so well that you nearly missed
seeing it at all. Its coloring, markings, or other
physical features resemble its habitat so much
that you can look directly at it without seeing
it at first. This is often good enough to fool
a predator that is scanning an area to look for
food. This help prey to hide from its predator.
But did you know that it often works the other
way around, too? Predators can use camouflage
to trap their prey.
If a predator wants to eat a certain animal,
and that animal cannot see it lying in watch, it
can pounce on its prey unexpectedly, devouring
it before it even knows what is happening.
Another popular adaptation is mimicry.
Mimicry is when an animal has markings or
other physical characteristics that allow it to
look like some other kind of animal or plant.
If it can make its predators believe that it is
something that preys on them, or would at least
be difficult or painful to catch, its predator will
often go off in search of an easier target.

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Sometimes animals are able to survive
when their habitat changes because they adapt
to the new conditions. For example, birds that
were accustomed to nesting on high cliffs or
in tall trees have survived industrialization of
their habitat by learning to nest in the crevices
of tall buildings. Raccoons easily adapt to
residential areas that have taken over their
woodland homes. They often help themselves
to any food they can grab, whether it is in
trashcans, or inside people’s homes!

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Japan’s most famous dog

In front of the enormous Shibuya train
station in Tokyo, there is a life-size bronze
statue of a dog. Even though the statue is very
small when compared to the huge neon signs
flashing, it isn’t diffci ult to find. It has been used
as a meeting point since 1934 and today you
will find hundreds of people waiting there for
their friends to arrive-just look for the crowds.

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Hachiko, an Akita dog, was born in 1923
and brought to Tokyo in 1924. His owner,
Professor Eisaburo Uyeno and he were
inseparable friends right from the start. Each
day Hachiko would accompany his owner, a
professor at the Imperial University, to Shibuya
train station when he left for work. When he
came back, the professor would always find
the dog patiently waiting for him. Sadly, the
professor died suddenly at work in 1925 before
he could return home. Although Hachiko was
still a young dog, the bond between him and
his owner was very strong and he continued to
wait at the station every day. Sometimes, he
would stay there for days at a time, though some
believe that he kept returning because of the
food he was given by street vendors. He
became a familiar sight to commuters over time.
In 1934, a statue of him was put outside the
station. In 1935, Hachiko died at the place he
last saw his friend alive.

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The Mummies of Osiris

The people of ancient Egypt believed in
life after death. When people died, they went
to live with Osiris, the god of the underworld.
In the underworld, they would keep the same
bodies in which they died. The priests of Osiris
knew how to keep bodies from decaying. They
used chemicals to take the moisture out of the
body. Then, they washed the body and spread
oil over it. Finally, they wrapped the body
in cloth, making it into a mummy. Once the
mummy was wrapped, it was placed in a coffin.

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Egyptians thought they would need the
same kinds of things in the afterlife as they did
before they died. Therefore, people surrounded
the coffin with useful objects such as bowls,
pots, clothing, and with beautiful objects such
as gold and jewelry.
When a king died, the mummy was placed
in a stone tomb called a pyramid. Modern
archeologists have found some of these tombs.
They are filled with wonderful treasures as well
as household goods. And, of course, they also
contain the mummies of long-dead kings.
Thousands of years after they died, these
kings are teaching us about their world. The
mummies are so well preserved that scientists
can tell what they ate and how their doctors
set broken bones. We owe a great deal to the
priests of Osiris.

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Reading aloud has proved its importance as an essential component
of our curriculum and education; hence, we need to find ways to promote and
enhance it at all levels. Reading aloud is a vital aspect of key competencies
and contributes to the personal and social well - being of our students. The
importance of reading aloud can’t be underestimated. The more our students
practice, the better they become fluent, exquisite readers.

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