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