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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. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
prior knowledge is activated
passages in the chapter
End of a chapter
Set puprose for reading
2. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Infer
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
passages in the chapter
Author's Purpose
3. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Personification
Conclude
reading comprehension
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
4. Pre reading is done before...
Onomatopoeia
reading
End of a chapter
passages in the chapter
5. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Author's Purpose
reading comprehension
Validity
K-W-L strategy
6. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Simile
Fact
prereading - durning reading and after reading
previewing the text
7. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Hyperbole
Evaluate Information
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
reading
8. What the story is Mainly about.
purpose for reading
Main Idea
Theme
Author's Purpose
9. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
purpose for reading
A pre reading strategy
Active reading
Theme
10. We set a purpose for reading by...
End of a chapter
Turning headings into questions
Main Idea
reading comprehension
11. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Main Idea
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Personification
Making predictions
12. Details that support the main idea.
Primary Source
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Supporting Details
Sequence of Events
13. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Tone
Set puprose for reading
Infer
promotes active reading
14. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Main Idea
Compare
Process of Elimination
15. Make predictions while you are...
previewing the text
purpose for reading
Secondary Source
Setting a purpose before reading
16. People or animals in a story.
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Characters
Validity
17. When and where the story takes place.
prior knowledge
passages in the chapter
Setting
Infer
18. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
K-W-L strategy
Hyperbole
Characters
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
19. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Problem
Setting
Setting a purpose before reading
Reliability
20. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Cause
Active reading
Onomatopoeia
Setting a purpose before reading
21. The 3 stages of reading are...
Turning headings into questions
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Reliability
22. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Text Features
Turning headings into questions
Process of Elimination
23. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
prior knowledge
Hyperbole
potential essay questions
Context Clues
24. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
passages in the chapter
Opinion
Infer
Effect
25. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Alliteration
Cause
prior knowledge
Major concepts of the chapter
26. The 4P startegy promotes...
Secondary Source
Solution
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Active reading
27. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
prior knowledge
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
purpose for reading
promotes active reading
28. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
reading
Cause
Theme
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
29. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Active reading
Hyperbole
Context Clues
potential essay questions
30. Something that is wrong.
End of a chapter
Problem
Evaluate Information
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
31. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Process of Elimination
promotes active reading
Reliability
Context Clues
32. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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33. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Active reading
Interact with the text
K-W-L strategy
Infer
34. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
potential essay questions
new to the known
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Turning headings into questions
35. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Theme
Process of Elimination
Hyperbole
36. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Opinion
Setting
Set puprose for reading
Secondary Source
37. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
End of a chapter
Active reading
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
P.O.R.P.E strategy
38. Why something happens.
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Alliteration
Cause
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
39. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
A pre reading strategy
purpose for reading
Set puprose for reading
Problem
40. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Active reading
Setting a purpose before reading
new to the known
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
41. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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42. Active reading means to...
Characters
reading
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Interact with the text
43. What happens as a result.
Characters
Set puprose for reading
Effect
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
44. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
reading comprehension
prior knowledge
Theme
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
45. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Plot
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Evaluate Information
purpose for reading
46. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
purpose for reading
Validity
Main Idea
Setting
47. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Plot
new to the known
Hyperbole
48. Find differences between two or more things.
Contrast
Analyze Information
Main Idea
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
49. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Sequence of Events
Infer
new to the known
50. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
reading comprehension
Problem
Personification
Cause