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journal at least half tour time. Every single time you ise IXL, make sure you stop and write a few ideas down about that particular experience. What was useful or frustrating?
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study the context they supply on the "answer". Very likely you are not reading the explanations. Therefore, Hack, take control, by writing your OWN HACK,writing an explanation of how to get the answer right; better still, because the goal is not to get the answer right, it is to truly internalize the USAGE and put it into daily practice in your life and art. So better still, life wise, fir you to actually employ the skill in your daily writing that minute by writing some flowing text which flexes that particular language arts muscle. They write a terrible "story" with a theme? You write a BETTER story with a theme to HACK, to improve, to BEAT IXL. Only submit IXL scores once the HACK is written. Or find your own free reading author using the same skill, strategy.
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context: be sure you KNOW which skill is being tested, instead of randomly answering Qs.
select just one skill to work on. Read their explanation or definition of that skill (relative clauses, for example).
Then STEP AWAY FROM THE CAR.
Go on your own.
GO rogue.
Write your own imitation version of that rule, or of the examples of the rule, BUT IN A CKNTEXT OF A WHOKE ESSAY OARAGRAPH or story or poem.
We must be BETTER. better than IXL.
We can develop a more humane version of IXL that actually teaches you and offers practice in writing good STORIES NOt sentences, and in reading good books, not good sentences.
select just one skill to work on. Read their explanation or definition of that skill (relative clauses, for example).
Then STEP AWAY FROM THE CAR.
Go on your own.
GO rogue.
Write your own imitation version of that rule, or of the examples of the rule, BUT IN A CKNTEXT OF A WHOKE ESSAY OARAGRAPH or story or poem.
We must be BETTER. better than IXL.
We can develop a more humane version of IXL that actually teaches you and offers practice in writing good STORIES NOt sentences, and in reading good books, not good sentences.
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Keywords in answer
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one sentence
3/4 of the time a single sentence alone orovides the info needed to answer correctly and quickly.
This is NOT to say quick answers are the goal: it IS to say that these inane paragraphs out of the context of real life reading situations are so removed from actual encounters YOU will find (Gibbon, Garfield) that there is no point --- absolutely no point. there is no PLEASURE gained in the reading.
REAL LIFE WRITERS WANT US TO ENJOY text.
These are simply builders tools, nails, hammers, pitchforks, and they wield the tools like devils on our backsides.
This is NOT to say quick answers are the goal: it IS to say that these inane paragraphs out of the context of real life reading situations are so removed from actual encounters YOU will find (Gibbon, Garfield) that there is no point --- absolutely no point. there is no PLEASURE gained in the reading.
REAL LIFE WRITERS WANT US TO ENJOY text.
These are simply builders tools, nails, hammers, pitchforks, and they wield the tools like devils on our backsides.
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