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Reading Skills And Strategies

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1. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Alliteration
Primary Source
Onomatopoeia

2. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Evaluate Information
Analyze Information
Active reading
Making predictions

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

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4. When and where the story takes place.
Active reading
Set puprose for reading
Cause
Setting

5. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Validity
Analyze Information
reading comprehension
Characters

6. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Conclude
Major concepts of the chapter
Simile
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

7. The 4P startegy promotes...
Plot
Active reading
Theme
A pre reading strategy

8. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Characters
purpose for reading
Theme
Cause

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

10. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
End of a chapter
Hyperbole
Validity
Main Idea

11. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Infer
Tone
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Plot

12. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
K-W-L strategy
Author's Purpose
Opinion
Process of Elimination

13. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Primary Source
Validity
P.O.R.P.E strategy

14. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
potential essay questions
Evaluate Information
Analyze Information
passages in the chapter

15. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
K-W-L strategy
Characters
Supporting Details
Simile

16. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
promotes active reading
Evaluate Information
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Sequence of Events

17. Why something happens.
End of a chapter
Cause
purpose for reading
Process of Elimination

18. What the story is Mainly about.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Compare
Main Idea
Text Features

19. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Characters
Context Clues
Major concepts of the chapter
Onomatopoeia

20. Fixes the problem.
Secondary Source
Solution
Supporting Details
passages in the chapter

21. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Cause
new to the known
Context Clues
Opinion

22. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Contrast
Active reading
Simile

23. Active reading means to...
reading comprehension
Author's Purpose
Interact with the text
Contrast

24. The 3 stages of reading are...
prior knowledge is activated
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Cause
Theme

25. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Fact
Active reading
prior knowledge
Primary Source

26. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Personification
Analyze Information
reading comprehension
Reliability

27. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
End of a chapter
Solution
Validity
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's

28. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
reading comprehension
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Contrast
Text Features

29. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
previewing the text
reading comprehension
Setting a purpose before reading
Secondary Source

30. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
reading comprehension
Metaphor
Fact
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

31. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Sequence of Events
Infer
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Alliteration

32. Find similarities between two or more things.
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Compare
Plot

33. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
purpose for reading
Personification
passages in the chapter
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. Pre reading is done before...
Onomatopoeia
reading
Main Idea
Problem

36. Reading comprehension increases when...
Analyze Information
prior knowledge
Process of Elimination
prior knowledge is activated

37. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Process of Elimination
Conclude
Hyperbole
Major concepts of the chapter

38. Activate your prior knowledge when...
K-W-L strategy
Making predictions
Problem
passages in the chapter

39. Details that support the main idea.
passages in the chapter
Supporting Details
Context Clues
Conclude

40. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Infer
Personification
Major concepts of the chapter
Fact

41. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Sequence of Events
Tone
potential essay questions
Setting a purpose before reading

42. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
K-W-L strategy
Infer
purpose for reading
Plot

43. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
promotes active reading
Main Idea
prior knowledge
Author's Purpose

44. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Simile
Theme
Active reading
reading

45. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Alliteration
Supporting Details
Infer
Simile

46. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Validity
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Plot
purpose for reading

47. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Hyperbole
prior knowledge
Personification
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions

48. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Reliability
Opinion
new to the known
Cause

49. The 4P startegy is...
Process of Elimination
A pre reading strategy
reading comprehension
Context Clues

50. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Validity
Making predictions
potential essay questions
Hyperbole

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