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