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