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Reading Skills And Strategies

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1. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
Theme
Turning headings into questions
Secondary Source

2. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
prior knowledge
previewing the text
Tone

3. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Compare
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Context Clues

4. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Secondary Source
Hyperbole
Active reading
Infer

5. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Context Clues
passages in the chapter
Making predictions
Evaluate Information

6. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
purpose for reading
Context Clues
Opinion
Metaphor

7. What the story is Mainly about.
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Fact
Simile
Main Idea

8. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Text Features
passages in the chapter
Validity
reading comprehension

9. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Turning headings into questions
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
A pre reading strategy

10. People or animals in a story.
Characters
promotes active reading
Reliability
reading

11. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Setting a purpose before reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Process of Elimination
Plot

12. Find differences between two or more things.
Turning headings into questions
Secondary Source
Contrast
End of a chapter

13. We set a purpose for reading by...
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
new to the known
Turning headings into questions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

14. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Simile
A pre reading strategy
End of a chapter
Analyze Information

15. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Active reading
new to the known
prior knowledge
Setting a purpose before reading

16. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
reading comprehension
Process of Elimination
Metaphor
Solution

17. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Hyperbole
Contrast
Secondary Source
Interact with the text

18. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Setting
prior knowledge is activated
Personification
P.O.R.P.E strategy

19. When and where the story takes place.
Active reading
Simile
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Setting

20. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Characters
Infer
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Reliability

21. The 3 stages of reading are...
Supporting Details
Analyze Information
Cause
prereading - durning reading and after reading

22. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Main Idea
Major concepts of the chapter

23. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Active reading
Making predictions
promotes active reading
Problem

24. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Main Idea
Contrast
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

25. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Secondary Source
Major concepts of the chapter
Process of Elimination

26. Details that support the main idea.
Setting
Supporting Details
Contrast
Set puprose for reading

27. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Fact
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Active reading
Set puprose for reading

28. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Hyperbole
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Active reading

29. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
promotes active reading
Alliteration
End of a chapter
Supporting Details

30. What happens as a result.
Effect
Validity
Tone
Active reading

31. Reading comprehension increases when...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Theme
new to the known
prior knowledge is activated

32. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
prior knowledge
Making predictions
Primary Source
Sequence of Events

33. Active reading means to...
Sequence of Events
Supporting Details
Interact with the text
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose

34. Activate your prior knowledge when...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Validity
Making predictions
Author's Purpose

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

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36. Make predictions while you are...
potential essay questions
Contrast
previewing the text
Author's Purpose

37. The 4P startegy promotes...
promotes active reading
Theme
Active reading
Main Idea

38. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Theme
reading comprehension
Personification
previewing the text

39. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
reading comprehension
Tone
purpose for reading
Active reading

40. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Active reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Simile

41. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
End of a chapter
Onomatopoeia
Analyze Information
Interact with the text

42. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
potential essay questions
Fact
Cause
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs

43. Why something happens.
Setting
Cause
prior knowledge
Infer

44. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Infer
Cause
Hyperbole
Major concepts of the chapter

45. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
new to the known
Problem
Validity
passages in the chapter

46. Something that is wrong.
Making predictions
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Problem
reading comprehension

47. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Opinion
reading comprehension
purpose for reading
Personification

48. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Personification
Setting a purpose before reading
Validity
P.O.R.P.E strategy

49. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
A pre reading strategy
Effect
P.O.R.P.E strategy

50. Pre reading is done before...
Main Idea
Secondary Source
Supporting Details
reading

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