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Reading Skills And Strategies

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
reading comprehension
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
promotes active reading
Opinion

2. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
A pre reading strategy
prior knowledge is activated
Plot
End of a chapter

3. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Active reading
Personification
Plot
Process of Elimination

4. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
reading comprehension
Turning headings into questions
passages in the chapter
Conclude

5. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Secondary Source
Compare
Problem

6. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
prior knowledge
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
new to the known
Validity

7. Pre reading is done before...
reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Hyperbole
Fact

8. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
potential essay questions
Setting
Primary Source
Set puprose for reading

9. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Theme
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Evaluate Information
Process of Elimination

10. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Conclude
Metaphor
Effect
Major concepts of the chapter

11. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Evaluate Information
Problem
Characters
Fact

12. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
Tone
new to the known
P.O.R.P.E strategy

13. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Infer

14. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Interact with the text
Metaphor
Secondary Source
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's

15. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
prior knowledge
Sequence of Events
Set puprose for reading

16. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Author's Purpose
reading comprehension
Infer
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's

17. Reading comprehension increases when...
Context Clues
Sequence of Events
K-W-L strategy
prior knowledge is activated

18. The 4P startegy is...
A pre reading strategy
Interact with the text
Major concepts of the chapter
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs

19. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
reading comprehension
purpose for reading
Personification
P.O.R.P.E strategy

20. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Active reading
Primary Source
Plot
promotes active reading

21. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
passages in the chapter
promotes active reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
reading comprehension

22. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Making predictions
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Personification
Evaluate Information

23. Something that is wrong.
Alliteration
Problem
Metaphor
reading comprehension

24. Find differences between two or more things.
Tone
prior knowledge
previewing the text
Contrast

25. Find similarities between two or more things.
Sequence of Events
Characters
Compare
Contrast

26. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Major concepts of the chapter
reading comprehension
Plot
prior knowledge

27. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Conclude
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Context Clues

28. People or animals in a story.
Reliability
Characters
new to the known
prior knowledge is activated

29. When and where the story takes place.
Setting
Set puprose for reading
Contrast
Personification

30. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
passages in the chapter
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Active reading

31. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
K-W-L strategy
End of a chapter
Secondary Source
Active reading

32. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
Sequence of Events
Main Idea
Active reading

33. The 4P startegy promotes...
Text Features
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
promotes active reading
Active reading

34. What happens as a result.
Effect
reading comprehension
Contrast
Characters

35. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
passages in the chapter
Setting
purpose for reading
Evaluate Information

36. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...

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37. The 3 stages of reading are...
Reliability
Cause
Interact with the text
prereading - durning reading and after reading

38. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Text Features
promotes active reading
Infer
Problem

39. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.

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40. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
purpose for reading
Making predictions
K-W-L strategy
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

41. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Main Idea
Reliability
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Set puprose for reading

42. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Personification
Reliability
Infer
reading

43. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Evaluate Information
new to the known
Active reading
Problem

44. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
passages in the chapter
Supporting Details
reading comprehension
new to the known

45. Details that support the main idea.
Interact with the text
potential essay questions
Supporting Details
Active reading

46. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Validity
Sequence of Events
A pre reading strategy
reading

47. Make predictions while you are...
Major concepts of the chapter
previewing the text
Metaphor
Evaluate Information

48. Why something happens.
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Metaphor
passages in the chapter
Cause

49. Active reading means to...
Context Clues
Interact with the text
Problem
K-W-L strategy

50. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Tone
Secondary Source
Primary Source