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