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Reading Skills And Strategies

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1. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Set puprose for reading
Main Idea
Characters
Plot

2. The 4P startegy is...
Set puprose for reading
Plot
A pre reading strategy
Setting a purpose before reading

3. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
K-W-L strategy
Solution
Compare
passages in the chapter

4. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Reliability
Process of Elimination
Onomatopoeia
Cause

5. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Text Features
new to the known
Infer
Personification

6. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Tone
reading comprehension
potential essay questions
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose

7. The 4P startegy promotes...
Active reading
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Set puprose for reading
Main Idea

8. We set a purpose for reading by...
Main Idea
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Compare
Turning headings into questions

9. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
Conclude
potential essay questions
P.O.R.P.E strategy

10. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Alliteration
promotes active reading

11. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
new to the known
Characters
passages in the chapter
Active reading

12. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Tone
Cause
reading comprehension

13. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
K-W-L strategy
previewing the text
reading comprehension
Making predictions

14. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Hyperbole
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

15. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Text Features
Primary Source
Analyze Information
Personification

16. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Evaluate Information
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Text Features
Setting

17. 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
Analyze Information
new to the known
Context Clues

18. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Set puprose for reading
promotes active reading
Alliteration
Cause

19. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Setting a purpose before reading
Process of Elimination
Hyperbole
potential essay questions

20. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Plot
potential essay questions
prior knowledge
Set puprose for reading

21. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Characters
Simile
Solution
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions

22. Fixes the problem.
Analyze Information
reading comprehension
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Solution

23. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
Process of Elimination
P.O.R.P.E strategy
prereading - durning reading and after reading

24. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
reading
Infer
Analyze Information

25. What the story is Mainly about.
Problem
Main Idea
Fact
Author's Purpose

26. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Solution
Supporting Details
Validity
Secondary Source

27. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
prior knowledge is activated
Context Clues
new to the known
Text Features

28. Pre reading is done before...
Interact with the text
reading
previewing the text
Major concepts of the chapter

29. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...

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30. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Tone
Conclude
Main Idea
Setting

31. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
prior knowledge is activated
Opinion
Solution

32. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
prior knowledge
prior knowledge is activated
Main Idea
Onomatopoeia

33. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Characters
Personification
Secondary Source
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions

34. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
new to the known
Supporting Details
Making predictions
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs

35. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Text Features
K-W-L strategy
prior knowledge is activated

36. The 3 stages of reading are...
passages in the chapter
Personification
prior knowledge
prereading - durning reading and after reading

37. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Making predictions
Cause
purpose for reading
Onomatopoeia

38. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Major concepts of the chapter
potential essay questions
Characters
Effect

39. People or animals in a story.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Evaluate Information
Text Features
Characters

40. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.

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41. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
passages in the chapter
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Fact
Turning headings into questions

42. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
K-W-L strategy
Secondary Source
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Conclude

43. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Major concepts of the chapter
Tone
Interact with the text
Analyze Information

44. Something that is wrong.
Process of Elimination
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Problem
Effect

45. When and where the story takes place.
Setting
reading
End of a chapter
Major concepts of the chapter

46. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Theme
reading comprehension
Active reading
Opinion

47. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Infer
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Cause
Hyperbole

48. Details that support the main idea.
Supporting Details
reading comprehension
Conclude
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs

49. Make predictions while you are...
Context Clues
Main Idea
previewing the text
Setting a purpose before reading

50. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Metaphor
Supporting Details
prior knowledge is activated
Making predictions

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