reading assignment
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- noun
- /ˈriːdɪŋ əˈsaɪnmənt/
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tarea de lectura
- Students wrote reflective comments when they completed their reading assignments.
- reading assignment from textbooks
- reading assignment and subsequent discussion
- complete reading assignments
Examples
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Complete the further reading assignments and suggested activities, and add your reflection notes in the 'Record my thoughts' facility.
Academic text (2015) -
Following a reading assignment, the teacher divides the class into groups of three to five students.
Academic text (2002) -
Yeah, reading assignments on the problem set every week will be listed.
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Tell me, Jerry, was The Seven Minutes part of your reading assignments at the university?
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The project is designed so that teachers can make reading assignments and involve youth in posting public or private comments.
Academic text (2015) -
Homework was usually an end-of-class practice activity, studying for a quiz or test, or perhaps a reading assignment.
Academic text (2012) -
Instructors who use an existing text can easily specify reading assignments while delivering lectures via some audio format.
Academic text (1999) -
Good readers make predictions as they read, so before we begin the semester's text reading assignments, we preview the text with students.
Academic text (2009) -
I assign this article before I assign Fryer's paper as a required reading assignment.
Academic text (2018) -
For homework, the teacher gave the class a reading assignment about the Civil War.
Synonyms
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A piece of work given by a teacher or boss
How Difficult
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: an 'assignment' that involves 'reading' is exactly what the phrase denotes. This construction follows a common noun + noun modification pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Reading assignment comes from school, where a teacher gives students a short text to read as homework. The image of a teacher 'assigning' a reading explains why a reading assignment is 'a task given by a teacher' to read a specific passage.