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Reading Skills And Strategies
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Effect
Primary Source
Solution
prereading - durning reading and after reading
2. Reading comprehension increases when...
Main Idea
Evaluate Information
Process of Elimination
prior knowledge is activated
3. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
reading comprehension
Effect
Setting a purpose before reading
End of a chapter
4. The 4P startegy promotes...
Active reading
Setting a purpose before reading
Evaluate Information
Conclude
5. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
new to the known
Analyze Information
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
prereading - durning reading and after reading
6. What the story is Mainly about.
Process of Elimination
Main Idea
Alliteration
purpose for reading
7. The 3 stages of reading are...
Context Clues
Active reading
Analyze Information
prereading - durning reading and after reading
8. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
previewing the text
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Active reading
9. Something that is wrong.
Characters
previewing the text
Validity
Problem
10. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Onomatopoeia
Set puprose for reading
new to the known
promotes active reading
11. What happens as a result.
Effect
Characters
prior knowledge
Main Idea
12. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Reliability
purpose for reading
Active reading
Setting a purpose before reading
13. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
K-W-L strategy
new to the known
Set puprose for reading
14. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Text Features
new to the known
Fact
purpose for reading
15. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
passages in the chapter
reading comprehension
Simile
16. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Making predictions
Setting a purpose before reading
17. When and where the story takes place.
Author's Purpose
Validity
Alliteration
Setting
18. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Primary Source
Fact
Set puprose for reading
End of a chapter
19. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
Opinion
Cause
K-W-L strategy
20. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Process of Elimination
Plot
reading comprehension
K-W-L strategy
21. Make predictions while you are...
previewing the text
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Fact
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
22. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
passages in the chapter
Simile
Making predictions
23. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Cause
Active reading
Onomatopoeia
Making predictions
24. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Supporting Details
K-W-L strategy
Secondary Source
Personification
25. Why something happens.
Opinion
Cause
Tone
Characters
26. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
Metaphor
Set puprose for reading
Onomatopoeia
27. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Analyze Information
Metaphor
Opinion
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
28. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Major concepts of the chapter
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
End of a chapter
29. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Making predictions
Alliteration
Fact
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
30. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Metaphor
Active reading
Opinion
Reliability
31. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Secondary Source
Setting a purpose before reading
Evaluate Information
Fact
32. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Alliteration
purpose for reading
Conclude
Setting a purpose before reading
33. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Validity
Personification
passages in the chapter
Context Clues
34. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Setting a purpose before reading
Opinion
Supporting Details
P.O.R.P.E strategy
35. We set a purpose for reading by...
Turning headings into questions
Opinion
Process of Elimination
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
36. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Personification
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Onomatopoeia
prior knowledge
37. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Effect
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
passages in the chapter
K-W-L strategy
38. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Alliteration
Analyze Information
Solution
promotes active reading
39. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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40. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Primary Source
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Process of Elimination
Onomatopoeia
41. Find similarities between two or more things.
Active reading
A pre reading strategy
Supporting Details
Compare
42. Find differences between two or more things.
Major concepts of the chapter
Contrast
Sequence of Events
Onomatopoeia
43. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Set puprose for reading
Theme
Secondary Source
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
44. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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45. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
Tone
P.O.R.P.E strategy
prior knowledge
46. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Validity
Infer
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Simile
47. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Tone
Evaluate Information
Setting
Making predictions
48. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
Turning headings into questions
reading comprehension
promotes active reading
49. Details that support the main idea.
Supporting Details
Process of Elimination
End of a chapter
Context Clues
50. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Supporting Details
Active reading
Reliability
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's