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Reading Skills And Strategies

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Context Clues
Primary Source
Onomatopoeia
purpose for reading

2. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Validity
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Effect
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions

3. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Interact with the text
passages in the chapter
Solution
reading comprehension

4. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Validity
purpose for reading
Main Idea

5. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Problem
Primary Source
Set puprose for reading
Process of Elimination

6. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Hyperbole
Solution
reading
previewing the text

7. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Analyze Information
Hyperbole
End of a chapter

8. What the story is Mainly about.
Main Idea
Author's Purpose
Problem
K-W-L strategy

9. The 4P startegy promotes...
Author's Purpose
Active reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
prior knowledge

10. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Metaphor
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Author's Purpose

11. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Interact with the text
passages in the chapter
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Set puprose for reading

12. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Plot
Problem
Alliteration
reading comprehension

13. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Conclude
prereading - durning reading and after reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Author's Purpose

14. The 4P startegy is...
Theme
A pre reading strategy
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Supporting Details

15. What happens as a result.
Effect
Infer
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
previewing the text

16. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Problem
Theme
Analyze Information
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

17. Pre reading is done before...
Active reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading
Plot

18. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Contrast
prior knowledge
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Onomatopoeia

19. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Author's Purpose
Reliability
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Major concepts of the chapter

20. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
prior knowledge
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Reliability
Compare

21. People or animals in a story.
Text Features
Active reading
Characters
Opinion

22. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
promotes active reading
K-W-L strategy
Contrast

23. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Problem
Simile
Reliability

24. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Contrast
Opinion
Active reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy

25. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
prior knowledge is activated
Evaluate Information
Setting
Onomatopoeia

26. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
K-W-L strategy
Secondary Source
reading comprehension
purpose for reading

27. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Secondary Source
K-W-L strategy
Sequence of Events
reading comprehension

28. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
potential essay questions
Alliteration
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

29. The 3 stages of reading are...
Cause
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Opinion

30. Making predictions before and durning reading...
promotes active reading
Text Features
Metaphor
prior knowledge

31. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Contrast
Making predictions
Personification
Set puprose for reading

32. Find differences between two or more things.
Contrast
Metaphor
Fact
new to the known

33. Reading comprehension increases when...
prior knowledge is activated
Author's Purpose
passages in the chapter
Compare

34. Something that is wrong.
Problem
reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Reliability

35. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Reliability
Evaluate Information
Analyze Information
Secondary Source

36. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
reading comprehension
Context Clues
Simile
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose

37. Find similarities between two or more things.
Fact
Compare
prior knowledge is activated
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions

38. We set a purpose for reading by...
Supporting Details
Turning headings into questions
Validity
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

39. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Hyperbole
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Text Features
Author's Purpose

40. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Solution
reading
Opinion
passages in the chapter

41. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Opinion
reading comprehension
Simile
Onomatopoeia

42. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Plot
Major concepts of the chapter
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
End of a chapter

43. Why something happens.
Contrast
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Turning headings into questions
Cause

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

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

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46. Details that support the main idea.
Author's Purpose
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Supporting Details
Personification

47. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Active reading
Conclude
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Effect

48. Make predictions while you are...
Turning headings into questions
previewing the text
Analyze Information
reading

49. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Context Clues
End of a chapter
Set puprose for reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

50. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Compare
potential essay questions
passages in the chapter
Personification