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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. People or animals in a story.
Cause
prereading - durning reading and after reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Characters
2. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Process of Elimination
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
K-W-L strategy
Set puprose for reading
3. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
Setting
Onomatopoeia
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
4. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
A pre reading strategy
Interact with the text
Conclude
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
5. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Setting a purpose before reading
prereading - durning reading and after reading
new to the known
6. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Setting a purpose before reading
Active reading
potential essay questions
7. Find differences between two or more things.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Active reading
reading comprehension
Contrast
8. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
reading comprehension
Plot
K-W-L strategy
Contrast
9. Fixes the problem.
Solution
Conclude
promotes active reading
Evaluate Information
10. Something that is wrong.
new to the known
Turning headings into questions
Problem
Opinion
11. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Alliteration
Solution
Validity
Text Features
12. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
reading
Characters
Onomatopoeia
Reliability
13. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Opinion
Active reading
potential essay questions
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
14. What happens as a result.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Effect
Context Clues
Set puprose for reading
15. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Major concepts of the chapter
Author's Purpose
prior knowledge
Plot
16. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Infer
Conclude
Making predictions
Simile
17. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Tone
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Author's Purpose
potential essay questions
18. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Reliability
new to the known
previewing the text
Tone
19. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Onomatopoeia
Analyze Information
Problem
Main Idea
20. The 4P startegy is...
K-W-L strategy
new to the known
A pre reading strategy
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
21. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Hyperbole
Setting a purpose before reading
previewing the text
prereading - durning reading and after reading
22. Pre reading is done before...
Opinion
reading
Alliteration
Primary Source
23. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Hyperbole
Major concepts of the chapter
End of a chapter
promotes active reading
24. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
potential essay questions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Alliteration
Plot
25. Make predictions while you are...
Conclude
previewing the text
Secondary Source
Cause
26. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Context Clues
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Turning headings into questions
Infer
27. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
28. Active reading means to...
Primary Source
Sequence of Events
Interact with the text
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
29. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Conclude
Primary Source
Plot
previewing the text
30. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Theme
Process of Elimination
Alliteration
reading comprehension
31. When and where the story takes place.
Process of Elimination
P.O.R.P.E strategy
promotes active reading
Setting
32. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Context Clues
Making predictions
Metaphor
Tone
33. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Onomatopoeia
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Compare
reading comprehension
34. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Interact with the text
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Making predictions
reading comprehension
35. What the story is Mainly about.
Primary Source
Onomatopoeia
previewing the text
Main Idea
36. Why something happens.
Opinion
Cause
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
37. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
potential essay questions
passages in the chapter
Infer
38. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
39. The 4P startegy promotes...
reading comprehension
Active reading
Hyperbole
Turning headings into questions
40. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
previewing the text
Major concepts of the chapter
Evaluate Information
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
41. Making predictions before and durning reading...
promotes active reading
reading comprehension
Process of Elimination
K-W-L strategy
42. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
K-W-L strategy
Setting
Fact
Primary Source
43. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Simile
Problem
Theme
44. Find similarities between two or more things.
Compare
reading comprehension
Conclude
previewing the text
45. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Alliteration
Setting
Interact with the text
Onomatopoeia
46. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Main Idea
Infer
new to the known
Analyze Information
47. We set a purpose for reading by...
Opinion
Problem
Turning headings into questions
Metaphor
48. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Evaluate Information
End of a chapter
passages in the chapter
Author's Purpose
49. Details that support the main idea.
Process of Elimination
Making predictions
Supporting Details
Compare
50. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Contrast
Theme
Context Clues
Cause