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