Literacy: A Present for Gran

 We finished looking through our answers to A Present for Gran.  Many of us had made a real effort to answer all the questions, which shows that we are interested in improving our comprehension skills.  Wanting to do well is the most important step towards success.

 The meanings of some of the phrases in the story were quite hard to find, but they could be found by reading carefully around the phrases.  One example is the phrase far from cheerful.  Cheerful means happy and smiling.  Far from means 'the opposite of'.  It has nothing to do with things being far away in distance!  Far from cheerful means unhappy.

The last question is often the hardest.  I tried to find five different ways to show what the story had done for me.  I did not just write a list of things that happened in the story with the words 'I enjoyed' in front of them.  If I did that I would get zero.  I tried to say things about the words and phrases that the author used, the reasons why they used them, and the effect they had on me.