Reading Aloud m1 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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CONTENTS

Before Chicago 4

The Banker and The Pauper 7

The Other Side of the Wall 10

Your Influence on the Universe 11

Going Against the Grain 14

Mosquito Coils 16

Noise Pollution 18

Instant Noodle 20

The Pitcher Plant 22

Your Sense of Taste 24

Lime-Yellow 26

Walruses 27

Pet Pals 29

The Home Office 31

Love and Time 33

A Glass of Milk 36

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Before Chicago

The city you know is only about 150 years old.
Long ago, before it was a city, people lived in this
area. They were Native Americans who lived in
Chicago long before it had this name. They were
the ones who actually gave it its name. They called
the city Checagou, which means wild onions. Every
year, it was difficult to live here in the wintertime
because it was snowy and extremely cold. There
were not even any plants to pick. Then, the first
plant that grew was the wild onion. In early spring,
the Native Americans would eat it. Therefore, this
became the place of the wild onion. No one actually
planted it; the onion grew naturally.

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There were grasslands and forests, and there
were also many animals. The Native Americans
survived by hunting and fishing and from food they
grew. In the summer, they grew food by planting
vegetables. While it was still summer, they began
to prepare for the winter. They knew it would be
freezing and snowy. They would be able to track
rabbits in the winter, and there would also be deer.
However, they would not have as much food
because there would be no plants growing in winter.
In summer, the families would relocate to a
village near a lake or river and build homes there.
They would build the homes together. The homes
were very large, so that a family could have several
people living in one home. The families would fish
and grow food. People in the village helped each
other out. There always was work to do, and the
family members shared the jobs.
Then in winter, they would leave the village
and build homes in the woods. Each family would
build its own home, and would take animal skins
with them to help construct their homes. They would
use branches to make a kind of tent, and then cover
the walls with those skins to keep them warm. They

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were particularly skilled at building those types of
homes.
They would continue to hunt for food, and
sometimes they would move their home in winter to
a place where they could find more animals to hunt.
It was difficult to get the food they needed. The
weather was harsh, and animals sometimes died of
starvation. Native Americans had to deal with the
weather, getting food, and keeping warm. So, when
they found the wild onions they knew it soon would
be better weather and they would have more food.
They would be able to join their friends and family
at the summer village.
Today in Chicago, Native Americans face
different challenges. They have jobs to earn money
to live. They work every day in many occupations.
No longer is it a place for hunting and building your
own home. It is hard to imagine what it looked like
here long ago.

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The Banker and The Pauper

Once upon a time there lived a pauper and a
banker. The first was poor while the second was
rich. So it was inevitable that the rich man will
be happier than the pauper. But their natures were
opposite, for the poor man was happy whereas the
banker was not. The banker was annoyed of the fact
that while he tossed and turned in his bed at night,
the pauper slept peacefully and always awoke rested
and full of energy.

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One day the banker could stand it no longer.
He decided to find out why the pauper was a happy
man in spite of his poverty. So he summoned him to
his house and asked him his yearly income because
he believed that happiness could only be measured
in terms of wealth.
“I don’t count too well, nor do I really care. I
live each day as it comes and never worry about the
next.”
“Well, then, just tell me how much you earn in
one day,” insisted the rich man.
“I earn what I need. And even that would
be too much were it not for all the Sundays and
holidays when I must close my shop.”
The banker liked the pauper. He wished to
thank him for coming to his house, so he presented
the poor man with a bag of hundred gold coins.
Now, to the pauper these coins, which meant
so little to the banker, seemed a great fortune.
He decided to hide the bag, so that he would have
the money if ever he should need it. So, when he re-
turned to his house, he dug a big hole in a secluded
corner of the garden, threw the bag into it, and
covered it with dirt.

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But from that day on, the poor man’s life
changed he began to worry about the safety of his
money. Every night he slept a little less, and each
time he heard the slightest sound, he became anxious
about the safety of his coins.
Finally, he could bear his unhappiness no
longer. He went to the garden, dug up the coins and
returned them to the banker. The pauper had learned
an important lesson, and so has the banker.

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The Other Side of the Wall

There was a young woman who took great
pride in the growth and care of the flowers in
her flower garden. She had been raised by her
grandmother who taught her to love and care for
flowers as she herself had done. So, like her
grandmother, her flower garden was second to none.
One day while looking through a flower
catalogue she often ordered from, a picture of a plant
immediately caught her eyes. She had never seen
blooms on a flower like that before. “I have to have
it,” she said to herself, and she immediately ordered
it.
When it arrived, she already had a place
prepared to plant it. She planted it at the base
of a stone wall at the back of her yard. It grew

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vigorously, with beautiful green leaves all over
it, but there were no blooms. Day after day she
continued to cultivate it, water it, feed it, and she
even talked to it attempting to crouse it to bloom.
But, it was no avail.
One morning weeks later, as she stood before
the vine, she contemplated how disappointed she
was that her plant had not bloomed. She was giving
considerable thought to cutting it down and planting
something else in its place.
It was at this point that her invalid neighbor,
whose lot joined hers, called over to her. “Thank
you so much! You can’t imagine how much I have
enjoyed the blooms of that vine you planted.” The
young woman walked through the gate into her
neighbor’s yard, and sure enough, she saw that on
the other side of the wall the vine was filled with
blooms.
There were indeed the most beautiful blooms
she had ever seen. The vine had crept through the
crevices and it had not flowered on her side of the
fence, it had flowered luxuriantly on the other side.
Just because you cannot see the good result of
your labour does not mean that it bore no fruit.

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Your Influence on the Universe

I read the first chapter of “A Brief History of
Time” when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly
heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life
is, and how, compared to the universe and compared
to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
When Dad was tucking me in that night
and we were talking about the book, I asked
if he could think of a solution to that problem.
“What problem?” “The problem of how relatively
insignificant we are.”
He said, “Well, what would happen if a plane
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you picked up a single grain of sand with tweezers
and moved it one millimetre?” I said, “I’d probably
die of dehydration.” He said, “I just mean right then,
when you moved that single grain of sand. What
would that mean?”
I said, “I don’t know, what?” He said. “Think
about it.” I thought about it. “I guess I would
have moved a grain of sand.” “Which would mean?”
“Which would mean I moved a grain of sand?”
“Which would mean you changed the Sahara.”
“So?” “So?” So the Sahara is a vast desert.
And it has existed for millions of years. And
you changed it!” “That’s true!” I said, sitting up.
“I changed the Sahara!”
“Which means?” He said. “What? Tell me.”
“Well, I’m not talking about painting the Mona Lisa
or curing cancer. I’m just talking about moving that
one grain of sand one millimetre.”
“Yeah?” “If you hadn’t done it, human history
would have been one way …” “Uh-huh?” “But, you
did do it, so …?”
I stood on the bed, pointed my fingers at the
fake stars, and screamed: “I changed the universe!”
“You did.”

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Going Against the Grain

In their short lives, commercially raised
chickens eat a lot of phosphorous, a nutrient that
helps their muscles and bones grow. They also
produce a lot of manure.
Putting two and together, that means manure
contains a lot of phosphorous. Chicken manure is
often used as fertilizer, and phosphorous-containing
runoff from fields can pollute streams and ponds and
the water supply.
This is a problem in areas with large
commercial chicken operations. Now scientists at
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States Department of Agriculture and researchers
from companies with a stake in the chicken
industry, have found a way to reduce the amount of
phosphorous in manure.
The scientists have developed a corn hybrid
that contains more phosphorous that can be digested
by the chickens.
Regular corn contains a lot of the elements,
but much of it is bound to phytic acid and cannot
be absorbed by the birds. The hybrid contains
less of the acid, and thus more of the phosphorous
in the corn is available. The researchers also fed
the chickens an enzyme that helps break down the
phytic acid and make even more of the phosphorous
digestible.

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Mosquito Coils.

Walk down the main street of any tourist town
in Southern Thailand and you will likely find a
mosquito coil smoking away under every table in
just about every restaurant. The tourist wonders: is
mosquito coil smoke hazardous to my health?
Travellers seem to fall into two camps on
this issue. Some worry about it and try to avoid
the mosquito coil smoke; others dismiss the health
concern, considering the smoky coils a prudent
precaution to thwart insects and the serious
diseases they may arbor, most notably, dengue fever
and malaria.

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Well, according to my investigation, a study by
UC Riverside scientists reveals that many mosquito
coils most notably those manufactured in Asia often
contain up to one percent BCME, which has been
described as ‘the most potent lung cancer chemical
ever discovered.’ And lung cancer is just about the
most deadly cancer known. In one Chinese factory
where mosquito coils were manufactured, a large
fraction of employees were dead within five years of
starting their jobs. The cause? Lung cancer.
By contrast, no study of cigarettes has ever
found tobacco smoke to pose anywhere near such
a high risk. Put it this way: there is no comparison
between cigarettes and mosquito coils.

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Noise Pollution

As a foreigner in Thailand, I’m not
encumbered by cultural restrictions on speaking out
about discomfort, and we have to say that the noise
here is louder and more pervasive than what we hear
in our home countries.
To spend any time in Thailand, one must be
inured to loud noise or it would be like walking
through a blizzard dressed only in pajamas. Neither
are monks nor their temples exempt from loud noise.
One may wonder how they could meditate. Thai
shopping malls are like oversized boom boxes.

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It’s a similar story on a bus, in a boat, in the
skytrain in Bangkok or in a restaurant. Leisurely
strolls in a quiet street in Bangkok are next to
impossible. Such places as post offices and banks
are not a source of refuge either.
Excessive noise is not only in the cities. In the
countryside growls of internal combustion engines
and loudspeakers noise from outdoor festivals can
be heard.
Thailand relies on tourism to supply a major
portion of its revenue. Offensive noise annoys
tourists and lessens their probability of returning to
Thailand. They also tell others when they return
home. More importantly, noise pollution lessens
quality of life for Thais.

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Instant Noodle

The instant noodle market is expected to
grow only a slight 6 per cent. This year for a total
value of BT 11.6 billion due to reduced consumer
spending says the Kasikorn Research (K Research)
in a report.
The forecast of 6 per cent is lower than last
year’s growth of 10 per cent. Although the cost of
living has dropped, due mainly to falling oil prices
and interest rates, both of which look set to fall
further this year consumers continue to wait and
see how the continuing political uncertainty will be
resolved K Research said in a report.

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Last year’s flooding in the North was partly
responsible for the 10 per cent growth but demand is
expected to return to the more normal rate of 6 per
cent this year.
To boost sales
this year, instant noodle
manufactures must devise
new and more aggressive
marketing concepts to
promote their products,
especially in term of
advertising and event
marketing.

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The Pitcher Plant

There are many different kinds of plants. Do
you know that there are plants that can kill and eat
insects? It may sound very strange but it is true.
There are plants that use clever ways to
trap insects for their food. The pitcher plant is a
common insect-eating in many countries. This plant
has a clever trap shaped like a pitcher or jug. This
pitcher even has a lid to keep out the rain. The
mouth of the pitcher is covered with a sweet, sticky
substance. Insects come to the pitcher to drink this
honey or sweet juice. They want to drink more,
so they crawl into the pitcher and drink the honey
found at the bottom.

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The inner wall of the pitcher is covered with
fine hairs. These hairs point downwards so the
insects cannot climb out of the pitcher. They die
inside it. Then the plant digests their bodies and
absorbs them as food.
There are also stories of a giant flesh-eating
plant in South America. They say that the branches
of this plant spread out like arms. Sometimes an
animal strikes against these branches. The branches
quickly fold round the animal and crush it to death.

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Your Sense of Taste

The next time you have to take medicine that
you don’t like the taste of, try this: chill the inside of
your mouth by placing an ice cube in it. You won’t
taste the medicine at all.
Very hot and very cold foods can change your
sense of taste. Heat, of course, increases your ability
to taste. This is partly why many people like
“piping hot” foods. You can taste very small amounts
of sugar in hot coffee. But a lot more sugar is
needed to make icecream and other cold foods to
taste sweet.

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Your sense of smell is another thing that can
change your sense of taste. You can prove this by
drinking chocolate while holding your nose. You
will find that it doesn’t taste much like chocolate.
Most surprising of all, hold your nose and close your
eyes while somebody gives you a bite of onion and
a bite of apple. You won’t be able to taste the dif-
ference.

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Lime-Yellow

Lemons are yellow. Grass is green. And fire
engines are red. Or are they? In Mississippi, one
city bought a lime-yellow fire engine. All twenty
fire fighters said that lime-yellow would be the best
color for a fire truck. They didn’t want red.
Lime-yellow is a bright color. It’s not yellow.
It’s not green. It’s halfway in between. This color
is brighter than red. It’s easier to see.
The fire fighters knew everybody would be
able to see the lime-yellow truck. The truck would
be able to go quickly and safely through the streets.
Cars would see it and get out of the way in time.
This lime-yellow fire engine is the first of its
kind. No one near it will miss seeing it. Would you
jump if you saw a lime-yellow truck racing down
your block?

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Walruses

The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large
Arctic marine mammal with flippers, a broad
head, short muzzle, small eyes, tusks and whiskers.
Scientists recognize two subspecies of walrus - the
Atlantic walrus and the Pacific walrus.
Walruses are cinnamon brown in color. They
are able to turn their hind flippers forward to aid in
movement on land. Their front flippers are large
and each has five digits. Males have special air sacs
that are used to make a bell-like sound.
Both males and females have large tusks that
are used for defense, cutting through ice and getting
out of the water. The tusks can be more than three

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feet long in males and about two and a half feet long
in females.
Diet
Walrus staples include clams, mussels and
other bottom dwelling (or benthic) organisms that
they locate through their whiskers. They are also
known to eat carcasses of young seals when food is
scarce.
Population
The worldwide walrus population is about
250,000. Pacific walruses number more than 200,000.
The Pacific walrus population was severely reduced
by hunting in the past, but their numbers have
rebounded after these severe reductions.
Range
The walrus is circumpolar in its range but they
are found in geographically separate areas. The
Pacific walrus is found in the Bering, Chukchi,
and Laptev Sea, while the Atlantic walrus inhabits
the coastal regions of northeastern Canada and
Greenland.

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Pet Pals

Goldfish, hamsters, parrots, and even pigs-
about half of all families in the United States have
a pet! If there are ten homes on your street, pets
probably live in five of them. What pets live in your
neighborhood?
Pets come in all sizes and shapes. They can
have soft fur, colorful feathers, or smooth skin. They
can have four legs, two legs, or none at all! The
most popular pets are four-legged and furry. They’re
cats and dogs, of course! Which furry friend do you
prefer?

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Most cats are happy to stay indoors and nap.
If you leave them food and water, they don’t mind
staying alone. They’re extremely clean so they don’t
need baths. And they’re usually peaceful and quiet.
Dogs need food, water, and baths. They also
need to be taken for walks-sometimes late at night!
Dogs get lonely so you can’t leave them alone for
long. Some people think all that noisy barking is
just too annoying!
One thing’s certain about both dogs and cats.
If you take care of them and love them, they’ll love
you in return. Isn’t that the most important thing?

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The Home Office

Kate Simon gets up in the morning. She eats
breakfast. She showers. She gets dressed for work.
But she does not leave her house. Kate works at
home. These days, many people work at home. They
are called “telecommuters.”
Telecommuters don’t commute, or drive, to
their jobs. They use computers, telephones, and fax
machines to “talk” to their coworkers. Every year,
more companies let employees work at home. Some
workers, like Kate, enjoy working at home.
“I can choose my hours. I can wear
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take a crowded bus every day. It’s cheaper, too. I
don’t pay for a bus ride, or buy gas for my car,” says
Kate.
Many telecommuters agree with Kate.
But David Park does not agree. David was a
telecommuter for two years. He missed his
coworkers. He had no one to discuss his ideas with.
Also, David thinks that telecommuters work more
hours. “When you work in an office, your work
is finished when you go home. When you work at
home, your work is never finished,” says David. “In
fact, I often worked on weekends and on vocations,
too.”
Telecommuting is not good for everyone.
David Park does not work at home anymore. But for
some people, like Kate Simon, it’s the best choice.

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Love and Time

Once upon a time, there was an island
where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness,
Knowledge, and all the others, including Love.
One day it was announced to the feelings that the
island would sink, so all constructed boats and left.
Except for Love.
Love was the only one who stayed. Love
wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.
When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to
ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat.
Love said, “Richness, can you take me with you?”

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Richness answered, “No, I can’t. There is a lot
of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place
here for you.”
Love decided to ask Vanity who was also
passing by in a beautiful vessel, “Vanity, please help
me!”
“I can’t help you, Love. You are all wet and
might damage my boat,” Vanity answered.
Sadness also passed close by, so Love asked,
“Sadness, let me go with you.”
“Oh … Love, I am so sad that I need to be by
myself!?

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Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so
happy that she did not even hear when Love called
her.
Suddenly, there was a voice, “Come, Love, I
will take you.” It was an elder.
So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot
to ask the elder where they were going, when they
arrived at dry land, the elder went his own way.
Realizing how much she owed to the elder, Love
asked Knowledge, another elder, “Who helped me?”
“It was Time,” Knowledge answered.
“Time?” asked Love. “But why did Time help
me?”
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and
answered, “Because only Time is capable of
understanding how valuable Love is.”

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A Glass of Milk

Once, there was a poor boy who made a living
by selling various objects from door to door. This
was the way he earned money to pay for his school.
One day, as he was walking from house to
house as usual, he felt very hungry and weak. He
felt that he couldn’t walk even a few steps. He
decided to ask for food at a house. He knocked on
the door and was stunned to see a beautiful young
girl open the door. With much hesitation, he asked
the girl for a glass of water.
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and offered him a huge glass of milk. With an
astonished look, the boy drank the milk very slowly.
“How much do I owe you for this milk?” he
asked her.
The girl replied, “I do not want any money for
this.”
The boy thanked the girl from the bottom of
his heart and left the place.
Years passed by. The young girl grew
up. In her youth, unfortunately, she fell ill and
was diagnosed with the rarest kind of nervous
disorder. Many experienced doctors were baffled
at her condition, and she was admitted in the city
hospital with the most advanced facilities.
Dr. Kevin, a renowned neuro specialist was
called in by the hospital to examine her. Even
with his extraordinary expertise, Dr. Kevin found
the girl’s illness very hard to cure. However, with
perseverance and hard work that lasted months, he
was finally able to get the disease under control.
With careful medication and monitoring, the girl
was completely cured in the end.
Everyone praised the doctor, but the girl was
quite worried about how much the hospital bill would

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come to. Her family had just a little money kept
away in the bank, which was by no means enough
to pay for such a long treatment in that reputed
hospital.
The girl was given the hospital bill final-
ly. With trembling hands, she opened it. She was
stunned to see that the bill had been crossed out and
cancelled, and there was a note underneath signed
by Dr. Kevin.
“Bill paid years ago with a glass of milk!”

Moral: One good turn begets another.

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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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