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Reading Skills And Strategies

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Theme
Alliteration
Fact

2. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
new to the known
reading comprehension

3. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Problem
Active reading
Simile
prior knowledge

4. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
Evaluate Information
previewing the text
Process of Elimination

5. People or animals in a story.
Set puprose for reading
Characters
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Onomatopoeia

6. Find differences between two or more things.
Hyperbole
Theme
Contrast
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

7. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
new to the known
Setting
Text Features

8. Fixes the problem.
potential essay questions
Secondary Source
passages in the chapter
Solution

9. Pre reading is done before...
reading comprehension
Set puprose for reading
Main Idea
reading

10. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Active reading
A pre reading strategy
K-W-L strategy
Personification

11. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Characters
promotes active reading
Making predictions
Tone

12. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Text Features
K-W-L strategy
Fact

13. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Cause
Active reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy

14. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Conclude
Alliteration
Tone
Interact with the text

15. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Evaluate Information

16. 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
Infer
Simile

17. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Plot
Contrast
Making predictions
prior knowledge is activated

18. Make predictions while you are...
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
previewing the text
Interact with the text

19. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Cause
potential essay questions
Conclude
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions

20. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Solution
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose

21. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Set puprose for reading
K-W-L strategy
Active reading

22. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Process of Elimination
passages in the chapter
new to the known
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

23. What the story is Mainly about.
Main Idea
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Onomatopoeia

24. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Opinion
Effect
Problem

25. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Active reading
Context Clues
Process of Elimination
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

26. Why something happens.
Cause
Making predictions
prior knowledge is activated
Characters

27. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Set puprose for reading
promotes active reading
passages in the chapter
Problem

28. What happens as a result.
Effect
Validity
Supporting Details
Secondary Source

29. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
purpose for reading
Simile
Sequence of Events
reading comprehension

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

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31. Something that is wrong.
Plot
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Simile
Problem

32. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
Turning headings into questions
Primary Source
Validity

33. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Making predictions
Analyze Information
prior knowledge
Active reading

34. The 3 stages of reading are...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Secondary Source
Fact
passages in the chapter

35. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading comprehension
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
reading

36. When and where the story takes place.
prior knowledge is activated
Setting
Analyze Information
Setting a purpose before reading

37. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Metaphor

38. The 4P startegy promotes...
Active reading
Contrast
Author's Purpose
Set puprose for reading

39. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
Setting
End of a chapter
Fact

40. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
reading
Active reading
passages in the chapter
Interact with the text

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

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42. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Validity
Fact
Onomatopoeia
prior knowledge

43. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Problem
reading comprehension
K-W-L strategy
Effect

44. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Onomatopoeia
prior knowledge
Evaluate Information
reading

45. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
new to the known
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
potential essay questions
prereading - durning reading and after reading

46. The 4P startegy is...
Infer
A pre reading strategy
Hyperbole
Text Features

47. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Contrast
Evaluate Information
Setting

48. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Metaphor
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Infer
prior knowledge is activated

49. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Set puprose for reading
Secondary Source
prior knowledge is activated
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions

50. We set a purpose for reading by...
End of a chapter
prereading - durning reading and after reading
reading
Turning headings into questions