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