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Reading Skills And Strategies

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1. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Infer
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Primary Source
Hyperbole

2. Find similarities between two or more things.
K-W-L strategy
Analyze Information
Compare
reading comprehension

3. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Author's Purpose
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Effect
potential essay questions

4. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Validity
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Set puprose for reading
Conclude

5. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Active reading
K-W-L strategy
passages in the chapter
promotes active reading

6. People or animals in a story.
passages in the chapter
Characters
Supporting Details
Compare

7. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Problem
Plot
prereading - durning reading and after reading
passages in the chapter

8. The 4P startegy promotes...
prior knowledge is activated
Context Clues
Characters
Active reading

9. Fixes the problem.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Solution
Process of Elimination
Supporting Details

10. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Compare
prior knowledge
Text Features
Author's Purpose

11. Why something happens.
Cause
Characters
Interact with the text
Solution

12. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
promotes active reading
new to the known
Main Idea

13. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Simile
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Plot
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions

14. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Hyperbole
potential essay questions
Solution
Alliteration

15. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
K-W-L strategy
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Hyperbole
Simile

16. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Hyperbole
Simile
prior knowledge is activated
Set puprose for reading

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

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18. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Secondary Source
reading comprehension
Onomatopoeia
K-W-L strategy

19. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Interact with the text
Validity
Infer
Metaphor

20. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading
reading
Primary Source
Metaphor

21. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Text Features
Major concepts of the chapter
Effect
Setting

22. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Theme
Fact
Sequence of Events
Primary Source

23. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Cause
Plot
Metaphor
Personification

24. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Making predictions
Cause
prior knowledge
Tone

25. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...

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26. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Main Idea
reading comprehension
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Active reading

27. The 4P startegy is...
Active reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
A pre reading strategy
Infer

28. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Setting
Tone
Contrast

29. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Sequence of Events
Active reading
Primary Source

30. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Fact
prereading - durning reading and after reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
promotes active reading

31. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Turning headings into questions
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Setting
Onomatopoeia

32. Something that is wrong.
prior knowledge is activated
Sequence of Events
Problem
Making predictions

33. Making predictions before and durning reading...
promotes active reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Supporting Details
Compare

34. Reading comprehension increases when...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
prior knowledge is activated
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Infer

35. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Process of Elimination
Fact
Primary Source
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs

36. What the story is Mainly about.
Primary Source
previewing the text
Conclude
Main Idea

37. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Compare
Secondary Source
Main Idea
Analyze Information

38. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
prior knowledge
Setting
purpose for reading
Plot

39. Find differences between two or more things.
Problem
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Contrast
Plot

40. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
reading
new to the known
Metaphor
passages in the chapter

41. The 3 stages of reading are...
Setting a purpose before reading
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Contrast
prereading - durning reading and after reading

42. Details that support the main idea.
Contrast
Sequence of Events
Supporting Details
Context Clues

43. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
prior knowledge
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Active reading
Effect

44. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
reading
Evaluate Information
prior knowledge is activated
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

45. What happens as a result.
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Effect
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Simile

46. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
new to the known
Contrast
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Reliability

47. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Supporting Details
Infer
new to the known
Tone

48. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
Personification
End of a chapter
K-W-L strategy

49. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
End of a chapter
Set puprose for reading
Contrast
Plot

50. We set a purpose for reading by...
A pre reading strategy
Turning headings into questions
Secondary Source
Analyze Information

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