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