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