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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. We set a purpose for reading by...
Turning headings into questions
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Text Features
Contrast
2. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Analyze Information
reading
Primary Source
reading comprehension
3. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Validity
Analyze Information
Simile
Reliability
4. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Analyze Information
Evaluate Information
new to the known
Author's Purpose
5. Something that is wrong.
passages in the chapter
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Problem
purpose for reading
6. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Simile
Making predictions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Conclude
7. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
K-W-L strategy
Opinion
End of a chapter
reading comprehension
8. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
prior knowledge
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
K-W-L strategy
Sequence of Events
9. When and where the story takes place.
Setting
Primary Source
Theme
Personification
10. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Sequence of Events
Onomatopoeia
Turning headings into questions
Interact with the text
11. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Active reading
End of a chapter
Simile
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
12. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Text Features
End of a chapter
Hyperbole
Process of Elimination
13. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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14. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Tone
Problem
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Sequence of Events
15. Find similarities between two or more things.
Tone
Effect
Compare
Alliteration
16. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Text Features
Theme
Characters
Main Idea
17. The 4P startegy promotes...
Opinion
Process of Elimination
A pre reading strategy
Active reading
18. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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19. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Metaphor
Alliteration
Supporting Details
A pre reading strategy
20. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Supporting Details
Plot
Conclude
Active reading
21. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Personification
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
prior knowledge is activated
new to the known
22. The 4P startegy is...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Making predictions
P.O.R.P.E strategy
A pre reading strategy
23. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Fact
End of a chapter
Active reading
Onomatopoeia
24. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Opinion
reading comprehension
Alliteration
Turning headings into questions
25. Pre reading is done before...
reading
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Analyze Information
Solution
26. People or animals in a story.
Characters
A pre reading strategy
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading
27. Fixes the problem.
Solution
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Interact with the text
Secondary Source
28. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Fact
Active reading
Opinion
prior knowledge is activated
29. Active reading means to...
Active reading
Interact with the text
passages in the chapter
Primary Source
30. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Primary Source
Turning headings into questions
Reliability
31. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Hyperbole
Set puprose for reading
Setting a purpose before reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
32. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Active reading
Metaphor
P.O.R.P.E strategy
A pre reading strategy
33. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Opinion
prior knowledge
Sequence of Events
34. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
potential essay questions
Compare
Validity
Plot
35. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Tone
Secondary Source
Contrast
36. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Interact with the text
Tone
Primary Source
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
37. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Major concepts of the chapter
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Set puprose for reading
reading comprehension
38. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
previewing the text
potential essay questions
reading comprehension
promotes active reading
39. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Alliteration
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Tone
40. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
passages in the chapter
Alliteration
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
41. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Alliteration
reading comprehension
Evaluate Information
Opinion
42. Find differences between two or more things.
Cause
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Contrast
previewing the text
43. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Cause
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Effect
Making predictions
44. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
reading comprehension
purpose for reading
passages in the chapter
Conclude
45. What happens as a result.
Effect
Active reading
Set puprose for reading
Secondary Source
46. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Active reading
Fact
promotes active reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
47. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
reading
Context Clues
new to the known
End of a chapter
48. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Alliteration
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Solution
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
49. Why something happens.
Cause
Simile
Setting a purpose before reading
promotes active reading
50. Make predictions while you are...
Active reading
previewing the text
Sequence of Events
Compare