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Reading Skills And Strategies
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What happens as a result.
reading
reading comprehension
Reliability
Effect
2. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
Turning headings into questions
Interact with the text
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
3. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Main Idea
Text Features
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
4. Pre reading is done before...
passages in the chapter
Fact
Analyze Information
reading
5. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Fact
Reliability
Plot
6. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Validity
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Setting a purpose before reading
Onomatopoeia
7. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Turning headings into questions
prereading - durning reading and after reading
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Major concepts of the chapter
8. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
prior knowledge
Analyze Information
Major concepts of the chapter
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
9. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Supporting Details
promotes active reading
Fact
Characters
10. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Primary Source
Problem
Evaluate Information
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
11. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
promotes active reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Fact
Simile
12. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Personification
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Author's Purpose
Fact
13. When and where the story takes place.
Main Idea
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Setting
Theme
14. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
reading
Tone
P.O.R.P.E strategy
passages in the chapter
15. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Text Features
new to the known
Main Idea
Validity
16. We set a purpose for reading by...
Turning headings into questions
Major concepts of the chapter
Compare
Interact with the text
17. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Making predictions
promotes active reading
Set puprose for reading
Interact with the text
18. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Infer
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Conclude
Fact
19. Make predictions while you are...
Context Clues
Primary Source
Set puprose for reading
previewing the text
20. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
21. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Evaluate Information
Personification
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Hyperbole
22. The 3 stages of reading are...
Personification
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Text Features
reading comprehension
23. Find differences between two or more things.
Effect
Contrast
A pre reading strategy
Setting
24. Something that is wrong.
Reliability
Conclude
Problem
Characters
25. The 4P startegy is...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Fact
Simile
A pre reading strategy
26. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Compare
Setting
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Making predictions
27. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Sequence of Events
Major concepts of the chapter
A pre reading strategy
reading comprehension
28. People or animals in a story.
Validity
Characters
K-W-L strategy
Context Clues
29. Why something happens.
Cause
Main Idea
Setting a purpose before reading
Onomatopoeia
30. Find similarities between two or more things.
previewing the text
Compare
Opinion
Primary Source
31. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Metaphor
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Major concepts of the chapter
Primary Source
32. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Turning headings into questions
passages in the chapter
Reliability
Infer
33. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Process of Elimination
Main Idea
Secondary Source
Personification
34. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Text Features
K-W-L strategy
Hyperbole
Compare
35. The 4P startegy promotes...
Context Clues
purpose for reading
Evaluate Information
Active reading
36. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Process of Elimination
previewing the text
Infer
Contrast
37. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Simile
Text Features
Active reading
potential essay questions
38. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
reading comprehension
passages in the chapter
Reliability
Major concepts of the chapter
39. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
passages in the chapter
Theme
Fact
Alliteration
40. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Hyperbole
Infer
promotes active reading
Simile
41. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Conclude
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Simile
passages in the chapter
42. Reading comprehension increases when...
A pre reading strategy
prior knowledge is activated
Metaphor
Supporting Details
43. Active reading means to...
Conclude
Turning headings into questions
Interact with the text
new to the known
44. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Primary Source
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Validity
Secondary Source
45. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Major concepts of the chapter
Onomatopoeia
Evaluate Information
Context Clues
46. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Evaluate Information
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Personification
Onomatopoeia
47. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Main Idea
Opinion
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Characters
48. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Contrast
Opinion
Simile
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
49. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Supporting Details
Making predictions
Contrast
Metaphor
50. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Secondary Source
Effect
promotes active reading
Hyperbole