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Reading Skills And Strategies
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Subject
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Find similarities between two or more things.
Problem
Compare
purpose for reading
Validity
2. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Validity
Secondary Source
Author's Purpose
Active reading
3. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Major concepts of the chapter
Solution
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Setting
4. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Turning headings into questions
Conclude
Setting a purpose before reading
Context Clues
5. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Interact with the text
Fact
Characters
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
6. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
7. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Supporting Details
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Hyperbole
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
8. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
potential essay questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Secondary Source
End of a chapter
9. The 4P startegy is...
Setting a purpose before reading
Primary Source
Reliability
A pre reading strategy
10. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Effect
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
K-W-L strategy
11. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Metaphor
Compare
Onomatopoeia
Main Idea
12. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Simile
prior knowledge
Personification
A pre reading strategy
13. When and where the story takes place.
Active reading
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Setting
Primary Source
14. Pre reading is done before...
Conclude
Analyze Information
reading
Secondary Source
15. Details that support the main idea.
Text Features
Supporting Details
reading comprehension
P.O.R.P.E strategy
16. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Contrast
promotes active reading
Turning headings into questions
K-W-L strategy
17. Something that is wrong.
Plot
Conclude
Personification
Problem
18. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
reading comprehension
End of a chapter
Analyze Information
Set puprose for reading
19. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Major concepts of the chapter
Setting
End of a chapter
20. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Plot
passages in the chapter
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
new to the known
21. Reading comprehension increases when...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
prior knowledge is activated
Validity
22. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Setting
Process of Elimination
Effect
Interact with the text
23. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Validity
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Primary Source
24. We set a purpose for reading by...
Primary Source
Turning headings into questions
Theme
Solution
25. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Hyperbole
Primary Source
Analyze Information
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
26. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Infer
promotes active reading
Hyperbole
reading comprehension
27. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
previewing the text
Active reading
Alliteration
Context Clues
28. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
prior knowledge
Solution
Personification
29. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Setting
Making predictions
purpose for reading
Active reading
30. People or animals in a story.
Active reading
Characters
previewing the text
Primary Source
31. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Hyperbole
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
promotes active reading
32. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Sequence of Events
new to the known
Text Features
Simile
33. Why something happens.
Cause
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Theme
passages in the chapter
34. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Opinion
Characters
Simile
Effect
35. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Opinion
Process of Elimination
Characters
Tone
36. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
potential essay questions
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Onomatopoeia
Cause
37. Find differences between two or more things.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Contrast
K-W-L strategy
passages in the chapter
38. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Evaluate Information
promotes active reading
reading comprehension
Tone
39. The 3 stages of reading are...
Analyze Information
prereading - durning reading and after reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Active reading
40. What happens as a result.
Cause
Opinion
reading comprehension
Effect
41. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Setting a purpose before reading
Theme
Supporting Details
Reliability
42. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
43. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Plot
Validity
Sequence of Events
reading comprehension
44. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Secondary Source
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Sequence of Events
45. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Evaluate Information
Fact
Metaphor
reading comprehension
46. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Plot
Alliteration
Theme
promotes active reading
47. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
prior knowledge
Opinion
Cause
potential essay questions
48. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Turning headings into questions
Fact
Solution
Metaphor
49. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Major concepts of the chapter
Simile
Alliteration
Setting a purpose before reading
50. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Active reading
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
potential essay questions
Secondary Source