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Reading Skills And Strategies

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1. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Making predictions
Alliteration

2. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
new to the known
Author's Purpose
Validity
Context Clues

3. Active reading means to...
prior knowledge is activated
Primary Source
Interact with the text
Making predictions

4. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Context Clues
Problem
new to the known
Active reading

5. Fixes the problem.
Solution
Process of Elimination
reading comprehension
Infer

6. The 4P startegy promotes...
promotes active reading
Active reading
Validity
reading

7. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Active reading
Hyperbole
reading comprehension
Simile

8. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Secondary Source
Main Idea
Set puprose for reading
Theme

9. People or animals in a story.
Plot
passages in the chapter
Characters
Personification

10. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Simile
potential essay questions
promotes active reading
Conclude

11. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Evaluate Information
Onomatopoeia
Analyze Information

12. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
prior knowledge
Cause
Infer
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions

13. Pre reading is done before...
Characters
Text Features
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading

14. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Cause
Setting a purpose before reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Personification

15. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Onomatopoeia
Sequence of Events
Active reading
Making predictions

16. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
reading
Opinion
Context Clues
Alliteration

17. When and where the story takes place.
A pre reading strategy
Setting
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Context Clues

18. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
new to the known
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Opinion

19. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Context Clues
Turning headings into questions
Conclude
Author's Purpose

20. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
P.O.R.P.E strategy
End of a chapter
Metaphor
Process of Elimination

21. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Characters
previewing the text
Validity

22. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Onomatopoeia
Cause
Alliteration
Secondary Source

23. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Opinion
new to the known
Personification
Infer

24. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Sequence of Events
Tone
Major concepts of the chapter
prereading - durning reading and after reading

25. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Context Clues
prereading - durning reading and after reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions

26. Details that support the main idea.
Supporting Details
Author's Purpose
previewing the text
reading comprehension

27. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Conclude
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Active reading

28. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
potential essay questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Active reading
Hyperbole

29. The 3 stages of reading are...
prior knowledge is activated
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Characters
Main Idea

30. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Theme
Infer
Validity
Analyze Information

31. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
potential essay questions
Set puprose for reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Personification

32. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading
End of a chapter
Supporting Details
Main Idea

33. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
purpose for reading
Conclude
Interact with the text
K-W-L strategy

34. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Reliability
Text Features
Contrast
Secondary Source

35. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
End of a chapter
Conclude
Contrast
reading

36. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Interact with the text
Main Idea
A pre reading strategy
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs

37. Something that is wrong.
Context Clues
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Problem

38. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Sequence of Events
prior knowledge
Active reading
reading comprehension

39. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Reliability
Turning headings into questions
Interact with the text
Simile

40. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Personification
Evaluate Information
Fact
Text Features

41. Find similarities between two or more things.
Reliability
Compare
Secondary Source
Fact

42. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Plot
P.O.R.P.E strategy
reading comprehension
Making predictions

43. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Conclude
Primary Source
Onomatopoeia
Compare

44. Reading comprehension increases when...
Primary Source
reading comprehension
End of a chapter
prior knowledge is activated

45. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Conclude
End of a chapter
Primary Source
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

46. Make predictions while you are...
Secondary Source
previewing the text
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Text Features

47. What the story is Mainly about.
Problem
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Main Idea
Making predictions

48. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Cause
passages in the chapter
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Context Clues

49. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Plot
Setting
Secondary Source
Context Clues

50. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
new to the known
Major concepts of the chapter
Analyze Information
Plot

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