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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. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Context Clues
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Active reading
Text Features
2. Find similarities between two or more things.
Compare
K-W-L strategy
Main Idea
reading
3. Find differences between two or more things.
Infer
Context Clues
Contrast
Set puprose for reading
4. The 3 stages of reading are...
Conclude
Opinion
Problem
prereading - durning reading and after reading
5. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Evaluate Information
Simile
Active reading
Major concepts of the chapter
6. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Active reading
passages in the chapter
Primary Source
Reliability
7. What happens as a result.
reading comprehension
Primary Source
Effect
K-W-L strategy
8. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
Active reading
Sequence of Events
Context Clues
9. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Interact with the text
reading comprehension
Infer
previewing the text
10. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Primary Source
prior knowledge
K-W-L strategy
potential essay questions
11. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Turning headings into questions
reading
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
12. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Secondary Source
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Metaphor
13. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Fact
Supporting Details
Contrast
Secondary Source
14. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Set puprose for reading
Active reading
prior knowledge
Validity
15. Why something happens.
Cause
Author's Purpose
potential essay questions
prior knowledge
16. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
purpose for reading
Hyperbole
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
previewing the text
17. The 4P startegy is...
Metaphor
K-W-L strategy
A pre reading strategy
Text Features
18. Reading comprehension increases when...
prior knowledge is activated
reading
Interact with the text
K-W-L strategy
19. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
passages in the chapter
reading comprehension
Hyperbole
Infer
20. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Context Clues
reading
Validity
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
21. Details that support the main idea.
K-W-L strategy
Theme
Supporting Details
Metaphor
22. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Simile
Contrast
P.O.R.P.E strategy
prior knowledge
23. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Validity
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Hyperbole
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
24. Active reading means to...
Setting a purpose before reading
reading comprehension
Interact with the text
Alliteration
25. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Personification
Analyze Information
previewing the text
promotes active reading
26. Pre reading is done before...
reading
Secondary Source
Major concepts of the chapter
Main Idea
27. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Set puprose for reading
Active reading
Analyze Information
28. Something that is wrong.
Setting
reading comprehension
Theme
Problem
29. Make predictions while you are...
Setting
previewing the text
Effect
Cause
30. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Opinion
Major concepts of the chapter
promotes active reading
31. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Making predictions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Contrast
Analyze Information
32. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Infer
Conclude
Setting a purpose before reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
33. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Making predictions
Turning headings into questions
Analyze Information
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
34. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Theme
Contrast
previewing the text
Process of Elimination
35. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Evaluate Information
Compare
Major concepts of the chapter
reading comprehension
36. When and where the story takes place.
prior knowledge
Setting
Problem
Sequence of Events
37. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Onomatopoeia
Evaluate Information
Cause
Fact
38. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
potential essay questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
A pre reading strategy
reading
39. People or animals in a story.
Theme
Tone
Plot
Characters
40. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Fact
Major concepts of the chapter
prereading - durning reading and after reading
41. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Secondary Source
Analyze Information
Active reading
previewing the text
42. What the story is Mainly about.
Main Idea
Compare
previewing the text
Setting a purpose before reading
43. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Active reading
Personification
Making predictions
Sequence of Events
44. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Simile
Metaphor
Contrast
45. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
new to the known
End of a chapter
reading comprehension
46. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Plot
End of a chapter
new to the known
47. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Metaphor
reading comprehension
Sequence of Events
reading
48. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Primary Source
Active reading
Secondary Source
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
49. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Text Features
Active reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Setting
50. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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