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