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Reading Skills And Strategies
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Subject
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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. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Conclude
Context Clues
Text Features
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
2. Details that support the main idea.
Setting a purpose before reading
Supporting Details
previewing the text
Major concepts of the chapter
3. Reading comprehension increases when...
reading comprehension
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
prior knowledge is activated
Text Features
4. Active reading means to...
Text Features
Author's Purpose
Context Clues
Interact with the text
5. Find differences between two or more things.
Cause
Secondary Source
Contrast
Problem
6. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
purpose for reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
P.O.R.P.E strategy
passages in the chapter
7. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Plot
Simile
End of a chapter
Context Clues
8. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
new to the known
Alliteration
9. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Fact
Tone
Metaphor
Problem
10. Making predictions before and durning reading...
reading
promotes active reading
Major concepts of the chapter
Sequence of Events
11. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Opinion
previewing the text
Simile
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
12. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Conclude
reading comprehension
potential essay questions
13. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
Primary Source
Process of Elimination
Plot
14. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Fact
prior knowledge is activated
15. Find similarities between two or more things.
purpose for reading
Infer
passages in the chapter
Compare
16. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Sequence of Events
Secondary Source
purpose for reading
Plot
17. People or animals in a story.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Analyze Information
Characters
Active reading
18. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Personification
reading comprehension
new to the known
Onomatopoeia
19. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Reliability
Supporting Details
previewing the text
Tone
20. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
new to the known
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Context Clues
Author's Purpose
21. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Effect
Evaluate Information
Infer
Sequence of Events
22. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
prior knowledge
Active reading
potential essay questions
Effect
23. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Simile
Text Features
Evaluate Information
K-W-L strategy
24. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Primary Source
Setting
Setting a purpose before reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
25. What happens as a result.
A pre reading strategy
Text Features
Onomatopoeia
Effect
26. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Reliability
Process of Elimination
Theme
Compare
27. Something that is wrong.
Main Idea
A pre reading strategy
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Problem
28. The 4P startegy is...
prior knowledge
passages in the chapter
A pre reading strategy
Personification
29. The 4P startegy promotes...
Effect
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Active reading
End of a chapter
30. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Hyperbole
Conclude
Setting a purpose before reading
Secondary Source
31. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Contrast
Major concepts of the chapter
Simile
Personification
32. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Plot
Active reading
Opinion
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
33. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Main Idea
A pre reading strategy
Making predictions
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
34. Fixes the problem.
Solution
Sequence of Events
reading
Major concepts of the chapter
35. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Simile
End of a chapter
Validity
prereading - durning reading and after reading
36. The 3 stages of reading are...
new to the known
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Secondary Source
Personification
37. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Evaluate Information
reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Conclude
38. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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39. Pre reading is done before...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Turning headings into questions
reading
Set puprose for reading
40. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Hyperbole
Effect
prior knowledge
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
41. We set a purpose for reading by...
Simile
Turning headings into questions
reading
Personification
42. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Author's Purpose
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Cause
prereading - durning reading and after reading
43. Make predictions while you are...
A pre reading strategy
previewing the text
Hyperbole
Theme
44. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
new to the known
reading comprehension
Contrast
45. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Onomatopoeia
Theme
potential essay questions
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
46. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
Metaphor
Reliability
Main Idea
47. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Infer
Sequence of Events
Author's Purpose
Metaphor
48. What the story is Mainly about.
Major concepts of the chapter
Main Idea
reading comprehension
P.O.R.P.E strategy
49. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Analyze Information
Context Clues
Conclude
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
50. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
passages in the chapter
Secondary Source
Author's Purpose
Alliteration