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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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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. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
previewing the text
Theme
Metaphor
Context Clues
2. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
previewing the text
Personification
Process of Elimination
End of a chapter
3. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
End of a chapter
Contrast
4. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Simile
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Turning headings into questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
5. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
K-W-L strategy
Active reading
Conclude
6. The 3 stages of reading are...
Metaphor
prior knowledge
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Theme
7. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Secondary Source
potential essay questions
Metaphor
Supporting Details
8. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Theme
Opinion
Personification
new to the known
9. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Primary Source
Turning headings into questions
Main Idea
Active reading
10. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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11. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Simile
Hyperbole
Setting a purpose before reading
Author's Purpose
12. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
potential essay questions
Supporting Details
Text Features
13. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
new to the known
Theme
Reliability
Metaphor
14. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Onomatopoeia
Effect
Tone
15. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Opinion
previewing the text
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Validity
16. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
prior knowledge
Tone
Setting a purpose before reading
Opinion
17. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
Infer
Main Idea
passages in the chapter
18. Something that is wrong.
Problem
Main Idea
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Effect
19. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
reading comprehension
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
A pre reading strategy
prior knowledge is activated
20. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Set puprose for reading
Conclude
Evaluate Information
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
21. The 4P startegy promotes...
Set puprose for reading
Opinion
Active reading
reading comprehension
22. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
prior knowledge is activated
Evaluate Information
Active reading
23. When and where the story takes place.
Setting
Solution
Simile
Contrast
24. The 4P startegy is...
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
A pre reading strategy
Set puprose for reading
25. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Setting a purpose before reading
reading comprehension
Making predictions
Analyze Information
26. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Simile
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Infer
Making predictions
27. Active reading means to...
Contrast
Tone
Interact with the text
Supporting Details
28. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Evaluate Information
reading comprehension
Metaphor
K-W-L strategy
29. Find differences between two or more things.
Metaphor
Opinion
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Contrast
30. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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31. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Active reading
Hyperbole
Validity
Personification
32. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
purpose for reading
Plot
Compare
Opinion
33. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
reading comprehension
Alliteration
Main Idea
K-W-L strategy
34. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Theme
Metaphor
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Simile
35. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
new to the known
Theme
Reliability
Effect
36. Details that support the main idea.
Supporting Details
Major concepts of the chapter
Active reading
new to the known
37. We set a purpose for reading by...
Turning headings into questions
Interact with the text
End of a chapter
promotes active reading
38. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Text Features
previewing the text
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Characters
39. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Secondary Source
Setting a purpose before reading
Problem
Text Features
40. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Solution
reading comprehension
Process of Elimination
41. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Major concepts of the chapter
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Fact
Sequence of Events
42. Making predictions before and durning reading...
promotes active reading
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Turning headings into questions
purpose for reading
43. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Hyperbole
Compare
prior knowledge is activated
reading comprehension
44. People or animals in a story.
promotes active reading
Characters
prior knowledge
Contrast
45. Fixes the problem.
Solution
reading comprehension
Cause
P.O.R.P.E strategy
46. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Personification
Infer
Major concepts of the chapter
47. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
A pre reading strategy
passages in the chapter
Secondary Source
Effect
48. What the story is Mainly about.
Analyze Information
Text Features
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Main Idea
49. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Tone
Setting a purpose before reading
promotes active reading
Problem
50. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Setting a purpose before reading
Problem
Alliteration
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs