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C. Descriptive paragraph
a. Factual description
A factual description describes a particular person, place or thing. Its purpose is to tell about the subject by describing its features without including personal opinions. A factual description differs from an information report because it describes a specific subject rather than general group (Anderson, et,
all, 2003,p
26).1. Examples of factual description text include:
a) Description of a particular building b) Description of a specific animal c) Description of a place
d) Description of a specific person
2. Grammatical features of a factual description
Factual description usually includes the following grammatical features:
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a) Verbs in the present tense
b) Adjectives to describe the features of the subject
c) Topic sentence to begin paragraph and organize the various aspects of the description.
3. A general opening statement in the first paragraph
a) This statement introduces the subject of the description
b)
Itcan give the audience brief details about the when, where, who or what of the subject
c) A series of paragraphs about the subject
d) Each paragraph usually begins with a topic sentence.
e) The topic sentence preview the details that will be contained in the remainder of the paragraph
f) These paragraphs build the description of the subject.
4. A concluding paragraph (optional)
The concluding paragraph signals the end of the text (Anderson, et, all,
2003,p
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Hiebert and Kamil also mention that The National Reading Panel identified the components of reading as phonemic awwereness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Vocabulary holds a special place among these components. Vocabulary is not a developmental skill or one that can ever be seen as fully mastered. The expansionand elaboration of vocabularies is something that extends across a lifetime.
Good reading comprehension depends on understanding the words wewere reading. The more words we recognize and understand in a text, the better our comprehension will be. So, the vocabulary holds the most importance role on reading especially reading comprehension, it is impossible to understand the text if do not know or not recognize the words from it text ( Mikulecky and Jeffries, 2007, p 26 ).
Based on the explanation above, the writer concluded that vocabulary is a very important thing to comprehend, especially in reading process. By gaining more vocabulary, students will find it easy to comprehend a text. So, in order to
).D. The Importance of Vocabulary for Reading Comprehension