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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. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
potential essay questions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Cause
Sequence of Events
2. What the story is Mainly about.
Fact
Main Idea
Hyperbole
Personification
3. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
reading comprehension
Analyze Information
Active reading
Hyperbole
4. The 4P startegy is...
Compare
A pre reading strategy
Setting
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
5. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Metaphor
Simile
Fact
Evaluate Information
6. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Metaphor
Active reading
Validity
Fact
7. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Cause
Conclude
Opinion
Alliteration
8. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
passages in the chapter
Author's Purpose
reading comprehension
9. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Fact
Reliability
A pre reading strategy
10. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
potential essay questions
new to the known
Metaphor
11. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Sequence of Events
K-W-L strategy
Tone
potential essay questions
12. When and where the story takes place.
Making predictions
reading comprehension
Setting a purpose before reading
Setting
13. Find differences between two or more things.
Compare
promotes active reading
Main Idea
Contrast
14. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
new to the known
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Setting a purpose before reading
Cause
15. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Turning headings into questions
Opinion
purpose for reading
potential essay questions
16. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Main Idea
Author's Purpose
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
17. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Set puprose for reading
Sequence of Events
Alliteration
Solution
18. The 3 stages of reading are...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Cause
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
reading
19. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Making predictions
Turning headings into questions
20. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Opinion
Personification
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
P.O.R.P.E strategy
21. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
reading comprehension
Secondary Source
reading
Opinion
22. Something that is wrong.
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Problem
promotes active reading
Supporting Details
23. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Major concepts of the chapter
Interact with the text
reading comprehension
Reliability
24. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Effect
Simile
Compare
25. Make predictions while you are...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Main Idea
Theme
previewing the text
26. What happens as a result.
Theme
Analyze Information
prior knowledge
Effect
27. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Active reading
Plot
End of a chapter
Metaphor
28. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
End of a chapter
Main Idea
reading
Alliteration
29. Reading comprehension increases when...
prior knowledge is activated
Onomatopoeia
Supporting Details
Effect
30. People or animals in a story.
Characters
Validity
Turning headings into questions
Opinion
31. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
new to the known
Simile
Text Features
Sequence of Events
32. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Author's Purpose
Tone
reading comprehension
33. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Validity
Opinion
purpose for reading
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
34. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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35. Fixes the problem.
Personification
Problem
Solution
Supporting Details
36. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
potential essay questions
promotes active reading
Cause
37. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Making predictions
Characters
Text Features
Personification
38. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Solution
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
prior knowledge
P.O.R.P.E strategy
39. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
previewing the text
End of a chapter
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
40. Making predictions before and durning reading...
promotes active reading
Personification
Reliability
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
41. Details that support the main idea.
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Supporting Details
Active reading
Making predictions
42. The 4P startegy promotes...
Sequence of Events
Interact with the text
Active reading
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
43. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Alliteration
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
promotes active reading
Reliability
44. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Active reading
A pre reading strategy
Characters
Process of Elimination
45. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Plot
previewing the text
Reliability
Supporting Details
46. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Active reading
passages in the chapter
Personification
new to the known
47. We set a purpose for reading by...
Turning headings into questions
Theme
Metaphor
Active reading
48. 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 is activated
Hyperbole
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Text Features
49. Pre reading is done before...
reading
Set puprose for reading
Context Clues
reading comprehension
50. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Major concepts of the chapter
Turning headings into questions