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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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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 ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
P.O.R.P.E strategy
potential essay questions
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
2. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Sequence of Events
Plot
reading comprehension
Author's Purpose
3. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Primary Source
Onomatopoeia
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Characters
4. Fixes the problem.
Problem
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
previewing the text
Solution
5. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Personification
reading
Making predictions
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
6. We set a purpose for reading by...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Turning headings into questions
Opinion
Text Features
7. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
potential essay questions
previewing the text
reading comprehension
8. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
prior knowledge
Opinion
previewing the text
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
9. What happens as a result.
Effect
Active reading
Personification
Validity
10. What the story is Mainly about.
Active reading
reading comprehension
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Main Idea
11. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Opinion
Theme
prior knowledge
Cause
12. The 3 stages of reading are...
Main Idea
Tone
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
prereading - durning reading and after reading
13. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Conclude
Active reading
Sequence of Events
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
14. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Text Features
Setting
Personification
reading comprehension
15. Details that support the main idea.
Supporting Details
reading comprehension
A pre reading strategy
Active reading
16. Reading comprehension increases when...
previewing the text
Text Features
prior knowledge is activated
Infer
17. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Primary Source
Personification
Turning headings into questions
Context Clues
18. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
reading comprehension
Conclude
Primary Source
Effect
19. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
purpose for reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Alliteration
Secondary Source
20. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Personification
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Sequence of Events
Tone
21. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Theme
Evaluate Information
Cause
Set puprose for reading
22. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
potential essay questions
Set puprose for reading
Opinion
End of a chapter
23. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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24. Pre reading is done before...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
potential essay questions
reading
Reliability
25. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Sequence of Events
Hyperbole
Validity
Reliability
26. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Process of Elimination
potential essay questions
Turning headings into questions
previewing the text
27. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Turning headings into questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Text Features
reading
28. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Process of Elimination
promotes active reading
prior knowledge is activated
Onomatopoeia
29. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Setting
Primary Source
Personification
Setting a purpose before reading
30. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Onomatopoeia
promotes active reading
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
passages in the chapter
31. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Active reading
Compare
Major concepts of the chapter
Opinion
32. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Effect
Opinion
Validity
Reliability
33. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Alliteration
K-W-L strategy
reading
Simile
34. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
new to the known
Fact
Context Clues
P.O.R.P.E strategy
35. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Simile
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Sequence of Events
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
36. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading
Secondary Source
Infer
37. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Problem
Process of Elimination
Theme
Alliteration
38. When and where the story takes place.
Setting
Text Features
previewing the text
reading comprehension
39. Find differences between two or more things.
Reliability
Contrast
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Hyperbole
40. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Conclude
Problem
Main Idea
41. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Tone
potential essay questions
Process of Elimination
purpose for reading
42. Something that is wrong.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Compare
Cause
Problem
43. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Process of Elimination
Personification
Analyze Information
potential essay questions
44. Make predictions while you are...
Onomatopoeia
Major concepts of the chapter
previewing the text
Main Idea
45. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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46. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Opinion
reading comprehension
Validity
Hyperbole
47. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Compare
Conclude
Problem
Opinion
48. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Metaphor
Main Idea
Evaluate Information
previewing the text
49. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Turning headings into questions
promotes active reading
A pre reading strategy
passages in the chapter
50. Activate your prior knowledge when...
purpose for reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Making predictions
Interact with the text