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Reading Skills And Strategies

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1. Make predictions while you are...
Hyperbole
previewing the text
Context Clues
potential essay questions

2. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Cause
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Context Clues
Setting

3. The 3 stages of reading are...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Active reading
Validity
A pre reading strategy

4. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Cause
Hyperbole
Validity

5. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Supporting Details
Problem
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
new to the known

6. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Process of Elimination
purpose for reading
Validity

7. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Interact with the text
Validity
previewing the text
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions

8. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Effect
Characters
promotes active reading
reading

9. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Process of Elimination
Simile
prior knowledge is activated

10. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Major concepts of the chapter
Metaphor
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Personification

11. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Opinion
Problem
Personification
new to the known

12. Find differences between two or more things.
Contrast
Primary Source
Problem
Characters

13. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
potential essay questions
Conclude
Problem
Hyperbole

14. The 4P startegy promotes...
Active reading
reading
A pre reading strategy
passages in the chapter

15. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Author's Purpose
Tone
Text Features

16. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Analyze Information
Secondary Source
Reliability
Characters

17. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
passages in the chapter
Tone
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Analyze Information

18. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Evaluate Information
Hyperbole
Simile
Contrast

19. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Secondary Source
Reliability
Major concepts of the chapter
passages in the chapter

20. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Set puprose for reading
Secondary Source
Alliteration
Simile

21. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading comprehension
Turning headings into questions
Contrast

22. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Turning headings into questions
Supporting Details
Hyperbole
Alliteration

23. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Conclude
Solution
Primary Source
Characters

24. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Active reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
K-W-L strategy
Turning headings into questions

25. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Simile
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
prior knowledge

26. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Onomatopoeia
Setting
reading
Simile

27. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Supporting Details
Alliteration
passages in the chapter
Infer

28. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
promotes active reading
new to the known
Sequence of Events
potential essay questions

29. Pre reading is done before...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading
Metaphor
Major concepts of the chapter

30. Why something happens.
Supporting Details
Cause
Interact with the text
Making predictions

31. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
K-W-L strategy
Personification
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Secondary Source

32. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
prior knowledge is activated
Effect
Fact
reading

33. Find similarities between two or more things.
Onomatopoeia
Setting
Conclude
Compare

34. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
prior knowledge
Plot

35. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
new to the known
Validity
prior knowledge
Problem

36. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Contrast
reading comprehension
Theme
Evaluate Information

37. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
Main Idea
Fact
reading

38. People or animals in a story.
passages in the chapter
Context Clues
Onomatopoeia
Characters

39. What happens as a result.
Opinion
passages in the chapter
Effect
prior knowledge is activated

40. Something that is wrong.
Setting
Solution
Problem
promotes active reading

41. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Author's Purpose
Theme
Making predictions
reading

42. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Problem
Major concepts of the chapter
Sequence of Events
Interact with the text

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

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44. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
End of a chapter
Secondary Source
Active reading
Major concepts of the chapter

45. When and where the story takes place.
Onomatopoeia
Setting
prior knowledge
K-W-L strategy

46. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
purpose for reading
Contrast
Setting a purpose before reading
Author's Purpose

47. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Problem
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Making predictions
Characters

48. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Validity
Compare
Opinion
Analyze Information

49. What the story is Mainly about.
potential essay questions
Hyperbole
Main Idea
Personification

50. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
K-W-L strategy
Active reading
Reliability
passages in the chapter

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