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