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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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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. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Supporting Details
Turning headings into questions
Major concepts of the chapter
Fact
2. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
previewing the text
Conclude
Fact
Active reading
3. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Setting
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Validity
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
4. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Onomatopoeia
new to the known
5. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Supporting Details
purpose for reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
6. Why something happens.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Cause
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Hyperbole
7. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Simile
Compare
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Contrast
8. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Characters
Simile
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
9. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Fact
Secondary Source
10. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
End of a chapter
reading comprehension
Secondary Source
Main Idea
11. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
reading comprehension
Plot
Conclude
Main Idea
12. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Hyperbole
reading
Tone
Evaluate Information
13. Pre reading is done before...
Opinion
reading
Alliteration
Analyze Information
14. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Plot
promotes active reading
reading
Process of Elimination
15. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
previewing the text
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Metaphor
16. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Validity
Alliteration
Tone
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
17. Reading comprehension increases when...
Effect
Analyze Information
prior knowledge is activated
Interact with the text
18. Something that is wrong.
prior knowledge is activated
Problem
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Cause
19. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Solution
Characters
K-W-L strategy
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
20. Activate your prior knowledge when...
K-W-L strategy
Making predictions
Solution
Opinion
21. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Turning headings into questions
Supporting Details
Tone
Author's Purpose
22. Fixes the problem.
previewing the text
Contrast
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Solution
23. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Contrast
Active reading
prior knowledge
Fact
24. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Tone
Process of Elimination
passages in the chapter
Personification
25. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Major concepts of the chapter
potential essay questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
26. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Hyperbole
Validity
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Plot
27. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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28. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
Cause
Hyperbole
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
29. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Tone
Characters
P.O.R.P.E strategy
new to the known
30. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
reading comprehension
Opinion
Characters
Tone
31. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
prior knowledge is activated
Conclude
reading comprehension
Validity
32. We set a purpose for reading by...
Fact
Turning headings into questions
K-W-L strategy
Context Clues
33. Details that support the main idea.
Supporting Details
Theme
Primary Source
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
34. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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35. The 4P startegy is...
A pre reading strategy
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
reading
prior knowledge is activated
36. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Metaphor
Sequence of Events
Cause
37. What the story is Mainly about.
prior knowledge is activated
Problem
Main Idea
previewing the text
38. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Conclude
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
promotes active reading
39. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Interact with the text
Evaluate Information
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Set puprose for reading
40. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Interact with the text
Evaluate Information
Reliability
Primary Source
41. What happens as a result.
Effect
Reliability
previewing the text
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
42. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
prior knowledge is activated
Context Clues
Validity
43. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Active reading
promotes active reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
P.O.R.P.E strategy
44. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Supporting Details
A pre reading strategy
Context Clues
Evaluate Information
45. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
P.O.R.P.E strategy
passages in the chapter
Cause
46. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Set puprose for reading
prior knowledge
K-W-L strategy
Solution
47. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
previewing the text
Infer
Analyze Information
Primary Source
48. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Simile
Conclude
Main Idea
Fact
49. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Personification
Author's Purpose
Process of Elimination
Setting a purpose before reading
50. When and where the story takes place.
Cause
purpose for reading
Compare
Setting