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