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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.
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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. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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2. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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3. We set a purpose for reading by...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Solution
Process of Elimination
Turning headings into questions
4. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
passages in the chapter
Alliteration
previewing the text
purpose for reading
5. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
potential essay questions
Effect
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Interact with the text
6. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Supporting Details
Reliability
Conclude
prior knowledge is activated
7. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Tone
Process of Elimination
prior knowledge is activated
reading comprehension
8. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Infer
reading comprehension
Set puprose for reading
Tone
9. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
purpose for reading
Infer
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Opinion
10. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
passages in the chapter
reading comprehension
Sequence of Events
Interact with the text
11. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Process of Elimination
purpose for reading
Solution
Text Features
12. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
passages in the chapter
Alliteration
previewing the text
Context Clues
13. Making predictions before and durning reading...
reading
promotes active reading
Contrast
Setting a purpose before reading
14. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Reliability
Primary Source
Evaluate Information
End of a chapter
15. Details that support the main idea.
passages in the chapter
Supporting Details
A pre reading strategy
Primary Source
16. When and where the story takes place.
Setting
Primary Source
Turning headings into questions
Set puprose for reading
17. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
purpose for reading
Text Features
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Alliteration
18. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Making predictions
Simile
Fact
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
19. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Hyperbole
Simile
Context Clues
Alliteration
20. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
Interact with the text
Infer
new to the known
21. Pre reading is done before...
Compare
prior knowledge
reading
K-W-L strategy
22. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
prior knowledge
Theme
K-W-L strategy
Personification
23. Find similarities between two or more things.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Reliability
reading comprehension
Compare
24. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Process of Elimination
Active reading
Compare
25. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
new to the known
Contrast
End of a chapter
passages in the chapter
26. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
new to the known
Set puprose for reading
Interact with the text
Infer
27. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
End of a chapter
Contrast
Active reading
Plot
28. Why something happens.
Analyze Information
Cause
prior knowledge
Validity
29. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Turning headings into questions
Tone
Context Clues
Secondary Source
30. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
prior knowledge is activated
Active reading
Characters
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
31. The 4P startegy promotes...
Active reading
Solution
Problem
Effect
32. Make predictions while you are...
previewing the text
Major concepts of the chapter
End of a chapter
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
33. Fixes the problem.
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Setting a purpose before reading
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Solution
34. What happens as a result.
reading
Characters
Reliability
Effect
35. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
previewing the text
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Secondary Source
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
36. Reading comprehension increases when...
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Effect
prior knowledge is activated
Evaluate Information
37. Find differences between two or more things.
purpose for reading
Contrast
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
38. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Alliteration
Conclude
Tone
Major concepts of the chapter
39. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Contrast
Set puprose for reading
End of a chapter
prior knowledge is activated
40. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
reading comprehension
Interact with the text
Reliability
K-W-L strategy
41. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Primary Source
Main Idea
Making predictions
reading comprehension
42. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Process of Elimination
Cause
promotes active reading
Validity
43. What the story is Mainly about.
Interact with the text
Main Idea
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Plot
44. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Setting
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Evaluate Information
Opinion
45. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
Opinion
prior knowledge is activated
Compare
46. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Conclude
previewing the text
Tone
Simile
47. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Active reading
Effect
Contrast
Secondary Source
48. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Compare
Personification
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
new to the known
49. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Evaluate Information
Onomatopoeia
Secondary Source
Compare
50. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Personification
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Set puprose for reading
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs