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