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Reading Skills And Strategies
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Compare
Effect
Reliability
Validity
2. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Process of Elimination
Personification
Set puprose for reading
Sequence of Events
3. What the story is Mainly about.
Main Idea
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
prior knowledge is activated
purpose for reading
4. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Fact
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Major concepts of the chapter
Sequence of Events
5. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Setting a purpose before reading
Compare
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Primary Source
6. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Supporting Details
Onomatopoeia
reading
7. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
promotes active reading
Problem
Process of Elimination
passages in the chapter
8. Reading comprehension increases when...
Alliteration
Hyperbole
prior knowledge is activated
Context Clues
9. Why something happens.
Cause
prior knowledge
Evaluate Information
potential essay questions
10. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Making predictions
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Simile
11. The 4P startegy promotes...
Active reading
Hyperbole
reading comprehension
Opinion
12. Find differences between two or more things.
reading comprehension
Contrast
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Onomatopoeia
13. Fixes the problem.
Solution
P.O.R.P.E strategy
reading comprehension
Contrast
14. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Set puprose for reading
Simile
Making predictions
reading comprehension
15. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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16. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
prior knowledge
Text Features
Set puprose for reading
Tone
17. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
End of a chapter
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Interact with the text
K-W-L strategy
18. Active reading means to...
reading comprehension
Tone
Characters
Interact with the text
19. People or animals in a story.
Plot
Simile
Author's Purpose
Characters
20. What happens as a result.
Sequence of Events
Author's Purpose
Effect
K-W-L strategy
21. Something that is wrong.
Infer
Fact
Reliability
Problem
22. Find similarities between two or more things.
Compare
Tone
Characters
prior knowledge is activated
23. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Evaluate Information
Solution
prior knowledge
Simile
24. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Solution
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Reliability
Active reading
25. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Secondary Source
potential essay questions
Simile
Opinion
26. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Analyze Information
Personification
new to the known
Effect
27. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Making predictions
potential essay questions
Turning headings into questions
28. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading
Author's Purpose
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Turning headings into questions
29. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Plot
Cause
Tone
reading
30. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
reading
Infer
Opinion
Problem
31. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Problem
Context Clues
Metaphor
32. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Reliability
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Metaphor
Setting
33. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
purpose for reading
Compare
Hyperbole
promotes active reading
34. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Opinion
Fact
prior knowledge
Plot
35. Pre reading is done before...
Metaphor
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
reading comprehension
reading
36. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Author's Purpose
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Reliability
Onomatopoeia
37. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Fact
Onomatopoeia
Solution
Setting
38. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Setting a purpose before reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Active reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
39. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
reading
Active reading
Hyperbole
40. We set a purpose for reading by...
Onomatopoeia
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Contrast
Turning headings into questions
41. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Effect
Author's Purpose
End of a chapter
A pre reading strategy
42. The 4P startegy is...
Effect
A pre reading strategy
Solution
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
43. The 3 stages of reading are...
Secondary Source
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
P.O.R.P.E strategy
44. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
Analyze Information
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Characters
45. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Onomatopoeia
prior knowledge
Setting a purpose before reading
Analyze Information
46. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Set puprose for reading
Conclude
Evaluate Information
Sequence of Events
47. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Analyze Information
Simile
Compare
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
48. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Main Idea
Problem
Context Clues
Reliability
49. Details that support the main idea.
Setting a purpose before reading
Effect
reading comprehension
Supporting Details
50. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
reading comprehension
Text Features
Set puprose for reading
Evaluate Information
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