“Comprehension instruction in content area classes” Summary

In order to comprehend a text, there is a crucial strategy, “Question asking and answering.” Students should ask and answer questions themselves before, during and after the reading. The first group of strategies is the “Getting-ready-to-read strategies” is to help the students to think about what they are about to read before reading. It includes: “Clarifying a purpose for reading,” “Overviewing the text,” “Activating prior knowledge relevant to the text,” “Making predictions about the text.”  The second group is the “During-and after-reading strategies” helps student understanding, remembering and ascertaining students have comprehend what they have read. This strategy includes: “Attending to text structure,” Creating Oral, Vision or Writing Summaries.” Five common structures are enumeration, compare and contrast, cause and effect, Problem and solution and description. To have good summary, students should delete unnecessary and redundant material; then, using simpler words to replace long descriptions. Last, select or create a topic sentence. Learning these strategies can increase the ability of reading and comprehending for students.

If only they knew

The author had two completely different lives at two different schools, just because one of the schools, Riverview High knew she was an anorexic and the other school, Madison High did not. At Riverview, lunch time included a lot of stress because her friends would force her to eat; they were concerned about her health, and everything they did surrounded her disorder. At Riverview, her whole life was all about and only about her disorder. When she transferred to Madison, she became an average teenage girl, they took time to recognize her as who she was. She participated in school events and showed her true character. Although she is glad that people at Riverview were concerned about her health, she wants them to know that she had more than a disorder.

Problems in Taekwondo version 2

Although Taekwondo is an Olympic sport, judging controversy happen very often in Taekwondo because the rules are not specific enough. Due to this matter, much bribery happen in Taekwondo. For instance, Judges can be bribed to give points easier or harder to either side. Intending to solve the problem, the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) changed all the gear to electronic gear; attempt to make the scoring fairer. However, as a result, an outrageous event happened. Which made everyone wonder how fair is Taekwondo? Is Taekwondo a suitable sport for the Olympics?

This event took place in the Guangzhou Asia games in 2010. BBC stated Yang, Shu-chun; a representative of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) was “a promising gold metal”. However she was disqualified after the first round for, what Taiwanese think an unreasonable reason. Yang was leading 9:0 after the first round, when the second round started, the referee announced Yang’s Vietnamese opponent, Thi, Hau-vu won. The judges and referees did not let Yang or her coach explain or ask any questions. This left them and the whole world with absolutely no clue of what just happened. 

Later on, Zhao Lei, the technical referee of China stated that Yang had worn extra sensors on her heel, which meant that he was accusing Yang of cheating. Yang’s coach protested that Yang had passed the pre-match check, therefore if she did cheat; it was the judge who approved her equipment that was up to blame.

Many people think that Zhao was accusing Yang because of Wu, Jiang-yu. Wu is the representative from China that was in Yang’s weight division was the only opponent that had little chance to win Yang. If Wu won the go medal, it could benefit Zhao’s way to being the head of the Chinese Taekwondo Association.  Meaning that getting Yang eliminated could make sure Wu could win the gold medal.

To justify this situation, Taiwan sued China on the Court of Arbitration for Sports. The story ends by Yang being suspended for three months, as for her coach, he cannot participate in any Taekwondo events for 20 months.

This controversy ending does not mean that it had stopped other controversies to happen. People are still waiting for the WTF to end these judge controversies. Although many people are overwhelmed that Taekwondo is still in for the 2012 Olympics, it still has many problems waiting for the WTF to solve, the bribery and judging controversy and many more.

Problems in Taekwondo

A shocking event that led the doom of being eliminated from the Olympics to Taekwondo was something that Herb Perez, the team leader of USA during the Beijing 2008 Olympics, said after he was furious about the poor judging that happened to Steven Lopez, one of the athletes on his team. He spilled out the shocking news. In June, the Word Taekwondo Federation (WTF) asked the team heads to sign an agreement to not to file any protest because that would lead Taekwondo getting kicked out of the Olympics.

WTF wanted to do this was that Taekwondo was on the edge of getting eliminated due to its unfairness of its scoring system. Before this, International Olympic Committee (IOC) already suspected that Taekwondo was a sport which wasn’t ready for Olympics yet; because its unsuccessful organization and its mismanagement.

The problem in Taekwondo was the deception that happened because of it unclearness in its scoring system. It was up to the judges to determine if they wanted to give points to the athlete’s kick. Therefore, much bribery happened in Taekwondo. Judges and referees were bribed to give points easier or harder to either side. Attempting to fix this problem, the WTF followed the other sports in the Olympics. They replaced the protective gear to electronic protective gear, trying to prevent the deception. An outrageous event happened, which adduced it really was a rash judgment.

In the Guangzhou Asia games, 2010, BBC stated Yang, Shu-chun, a representative of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) was “a promising gold metal”. However she was disqualified after the first round for, what Taiwanese think an unreasonable reason. Yang was leading 9:0 after the first round, when the second round started, the referee announced Yang’s Vietnamese opponent, Thi, Hau-vu won. The judges and referees did not let Yang or her coach explain or ask any questions. This left them and the whole world with absolutely no clue of what just happened. 

Later on, Zhao Lei, the technical referee of China stated that Yang had worn extra sensors on her heel, which meant that he was accusing Yang of cheating. Yang’s coach protested that Yang had passed the pre-match check, therefore if she did cheat; it was the judge who approved her equipment that was up to blame.

Many people think that Zhao was accusing Yang something that she did not commit was because of Wu, Jiang-yu. Wu is the representative from China that was in Yang’s weight division was the only opponent that had little chance to win Yang. If Wu won the go medal, it could benefit Zhao’s way to being the head of the Chinese Taekwondo Association. This made him even more suspicious of lying.

The Korean government stated this judging controversy had nothing to do with Korea. The conflict should be between Taiwan and China, not Korea. They hope that Taiwanese don’t band their goods and stop burning their national flag. The Chinese declared that they already have enough medals. They would not use thus kind of dirty deception just to win another god medal. Therefore, Taiwan and China clearly do not have an agreement; Taiwan is going to sue China on the Court of Arbitration for Sports.

Although this story hasn’t ended yet, people are waiting for the WTF to end these judge controversies, the bribery and the problem that Taekwondo is not ready for the Olympics yet. Regardless, many people are overwhelmed that Taekwondo is still in for the 2012 Olympics, many changes are waited to be done.