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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. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Supporting Details
Evaluate Information
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
2. Why something happens.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Cause
prior knowledge
previewing the text
3. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Main Idea
Opinion
A pre reading strategy
Hyperbole
4. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Setting a purpose before reading
Personification
prior knowledge
5. Reading comprehension increases when...
Main Idea
Active reading
Primary Source
prior knowledge is activated
6. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Tone
Conclude
Fact
Setting
7. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Analyze Information
reading comprehension
Set puprose for reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
8. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Hyperbole
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Characters
9. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Setting
reading comprehension
reading
Supporting Details
10. We set a purpose for reading by...
Conclude
Turning headings into questions
Text Features
Onomatopoeia
11. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
reading comprehension
Main Idea
Plot
Characters
12. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Major concepts of the chapter
Validity
Solution
Setting a purpose before reading
13. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
purpose for reading
Analyze Information
prereading - durning reading and after reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
14. The 4P startegy promotes...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Active reading
Simile
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
15. Active reading means to...
Hyperbole
Interact with the text
Opinion
purpose for reading
16. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Primary Source
Hyperbole
Evaluate Information
17. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Alliteration
Compare
Onomatopoeia
purpose for reading
18. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Cause
potential essay questions
promotes active reading
Main Idea
19. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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20. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
passages in the chapter
Infer
Setting
P.O.R.P.E strategy
21. People or animals in a story.
Sequence of Events
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Characters
22. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
prior knowledge
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
23. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Plot
Sequence of Events
reading comprehension
Setting a purpose before reading
24. Details that support the main idea.
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Supporting Details
Alliteration
25. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Context Clues
potential essay questions
Validity
Onomatopoeia
26. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Cause
Infer
Tone
Major concepts of the chapter
27. Find differences between two or more things.
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Contrast
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Opinion
28. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Major concepts of the chapter
Infer
Reliability
29. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Process of Elimination
Validity
Setting
Characters
30. Make predictions while you are...
Alliteration
previewing the text
Plot
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
31. Fixes the problem.
Solution
reading
Alliteration
Compare
32. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
passages in the chapter
Fact
Making predictions
Contrast
33. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Alliteration
End of a chapter
Process of Elimination
34. What happens as a result.
Effect
Setting a purpose before reading
passages in the chapter
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
35. What the story is Mainly about.
Main Idea
Set puprose for reading
Primary Source
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
36. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
purpose for reading
Text Features
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
37. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Reliability
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Interact with the text
38. When and where the story takes place.
Process of Elimination
Reliability
Interact with the text
Setting
39. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Context Clues
Evaluate Information
Contrast
Fact
40. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Hyperbole
Interact with the text
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Alliteration
41. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
Setting a purpose before reading
Active reading
Simile
42. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
Theme
K-W-L strategy
Problem
43. The 3 stages of reading are...
Supporting Details
Infer
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
44. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Cause
Active reading
Theme
Analyze Information
45. Activate your prior knowledge when...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Making predictions
P.O.R.P.E strategy
End of a chapter
46. Something that is wrong.
Problem
Active reading
Alliteration
Context Clues
47. The 4P startegy is...
Simile
Solution
A pre reading strategy
Sequence of Events
48. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
previewing the text
reading comprehension
Personification
49. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
A pre reading strategy
Supporting Details
Process of Elimination
Validity
50. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Simile
Primary Source
Reliability
Cause