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Reading Skills And Strategies

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1. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Active reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Set puprose for reading
Tone

2. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
new to the known
potential essay questions
A pre reading strategy
K-W-L strategy

3. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Text Features
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Characters
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs

4. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
End of a chapter
Plot
Sequence of Events
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose

5. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
Validity
Tone
Problem

6. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Simile
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Hyperbole
Context Clues

7. Why something happens.
Making predictions
Cause
reading comprehension
Interact with the text

8. We set a purpose for reading by...
Primary Source
Turning headings into questions
Setting a purpose before reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

9. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
prereading - durning reading and after reading
A pre reading strategy
Conclude
Opinion

10. Reading comprehension increases when...
Major concepts of the chapter
Opinion
Validity
prior knowledge is activated

11. Something that is wrong.
Problem
Context Clues
Plot
Evaluate Information

12. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Reliability
Conclude
Contrast
P.O.R.P.E strategy

13. Active reading means to...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Active reading
Interact with the text
promotes active reading

14. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
potential essay questions
Opinion
Effect
Evaluate Information

15. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Conclude
K-W-L strategy
Primary Source
passages in the chapter

16. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Onomatopoeia
End of a chapter
Alliteration
Evaluate Information

17. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Secondary Source
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Conclude
Setting

18. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Metaphor
passages in the chapter
Simile
new to the known

19. Fixes the problem.
Solution
Evaluate Information
Active reading
End of a chapter

20. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Conclude
promotes active reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Problem

21. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Tone
Primary Source
Effect
Alliteration

22. The 3 stages of reading are...
prior knowledge
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Contrast
Validity

23. Details that support the main idea.
Set puprose for reading
Reliability
Supporting Details
Text Features

24. What happens as a result.
Compare
Author's Purpose
Infer
Effect

25. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Analyze Information
reading comprehension
Active reading
Theme

26. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
Compare
Active reading
Active reading

27. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Compare
Active reading
Setting a purpose before reading
Problem

28. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Hyperbole
Analyze Information
Problem
prior knowledge

29. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
prior knowledge
reading
Metaphor
Infer

30. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
previewing the text
Onomatopoeia
Theme
Problem

31. What the story is Mainly about.
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
purpose for reading
Main Idea
Infer

32. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
purpose for reading
prior knowledge
Process of Elimination
Interact with the text

33. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
new to the known
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
purpose for reading
reading comprehension

34. Find differences between two or more things.
Opinion
Contrast
Effect
Fact

35. The 4P startegy is...
Primary Source
Solution
Supporting Details
A pre reading strategy

36. The 4P startegy promotes...
Text Features
Effect
Validity
Active reading

37. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Tone
Problem
Validity

38. Find similarities between two or more things.
Process of Elimination
Solution
Sequence of Events
Compare

39. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Making predictions
prior knowledge
A pre reading strategy
passages in the chapter

40. When and where the story takes place.
Setting
Author's Purpose
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Tone

41. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Validity
passages in the chapter
Fact
Onomatopoeia

42. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Personification
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Effect
Solution

43. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Theme
Context Clues
Simile
potential essay questions

44. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Fact
Characters
Text Features
Analyze Information

45. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
previewing the text
Theme
reading

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

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

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48. People or animals in a story.
Active reading
Characters
Reliability
Primary Source

49. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Reliability
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
reading comprehension

50. Pre reading is done before...
Main Idea
Supporting Details
reading
Onomatopoeia

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