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