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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. What happens as a result.
Setting a purpose before reading
Effect
K-W-L strategy
prior knowledge
2. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Fact
Conclude
Theme
reading
3. When and where the story takes place.
promotes active reading
Setting
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Context Clues
4. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
potential essay questions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
A pre reading strategy
Problem
5. Find similarities between two or more things.
Compare
Cause
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Making predictions
6. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Active reading
prior knowledge
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Making predictions
7. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Validity
Conclude
Active reading
Process of Elimination
8. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
passages in the chapter
reading comprehension
Supporting Details
reading
9. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Evaluate Information
Making predictions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
10. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
Effect
Secondary Source
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
11. Reading comprehension increases when...
prior knowledge is activated
Simile
Process of Elimination
Making predictions
12. The 4P startegy promotes...
Theme
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Compare
Active reading
13. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Metaphor
Text Features
Opinion
Evaluate Information
14. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
Personification
Reliability
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
15. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Evaluate Information
Contrast
Sequence of Events
K-W-L strategy
16. Find differences between two or more things.
Contrast
Analyze Information
potential essay questions
Fact
17. We set a purpose for reading by...
Active reading
Interact with the text
Turning headings into questions
Main Idea
18. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
passages in the chapter
Onomatopoeia
new to the known
Simile
19. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
reading comprehension
Secondary Source
Analyze Information
Infer
20. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Cause
prior knowledge is activated
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Fact
21. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Opinion
Personification
Alliteration
22. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Set puprose for reading
Main Idea
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Theme
23. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Sequence of Events
Compare
Personification
new to the known
24. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
previewing the text
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
new to the known
prior knowledge is activated
25. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Reliability
Process of Elimination
Characters
26. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Onomatopoeia
Conclude
Context Clues
27. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Simile
Solution
Process of Elimination
A pre reading strategy
28. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
passages in the chapter
Turning headings into questions
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Tone
29. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Text Features
Active reading
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
30. Make predictions while you are...
previewing the text
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Contrast
31. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
previewing the text
Simile
new to the known
K-W-L strategy
32. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Interact with the text
Primary Source
Infer
33. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Plot
Text Features
Primary Source
P.O.R.P.E strategy
34. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
A pre reading strategy
Active reading
Major concepts of the chapter
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
35. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
K-W-L strategy
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Turning headings into questions
36. The 4P startegy is...
Infer
Personification
A pre reading strategy
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
37. The 3 stages of reading are...
potential essay questions
Theme
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Major concepts of the chapter
38. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
potential essay questions
promotes active reading
Characters
End of a chapter
39. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Plot
Evaluate Information
Process of Elimination
prior knowledge
40. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Text Features
Analyze Information
prior knowledge is activated
Alliteration
41. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
prior knowledge
purpose for reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Setting
42. Pre reading is done before...
Setting
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
End of a chapter
reading
43. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Characters
Text Features
new to the known
prior knowledge
44. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Sequence of Events
45. Making predictions before and durning reading...
promotes active reading
Reliability
Metaphor
Theme
46. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
prior knowledge is activated
reading
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Reliability
47. People or animals in a story.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
K-W-L strategy
Making predictions
Characters
48. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Problem
passages in the chapter
Cause
Secondary Source
49. Something that is wrong.
promotes active reading
Simile
Characters
Problem
50. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Active reading
Setting a purpose before reading
Contrast
Author's Purpose