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Reading Skills And Strategies

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1. The 3 stages of reading are...
Hyperbole
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
prereading - durning reading and after reading
prior knowledge is activated

2. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
promotes active reading
Validity
Turning headings into questions
Personification

3. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
Effect
previewing the text
Supporting Details

4. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Opinion
Fact
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Infer

5. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
reading comprehension
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
A pre reading strategy
Tone

6. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
End of a chapter
passages in the chapter
Sequence of Events
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions

7. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
reading comprehension
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
potential essay questions
Sequence of Events

8. What happens as a result.
previewing the text
Effect
reading comprehension
prereading - durning reading and after reading

9. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Opinion
Text Features
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Conclude

10. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Onomatopoeia
Author's Purpose
Secondary Source
Compare

11. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
prior knowledge is activated
Problem
Process of Elimination
passages in the chapter

12. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
reading comprehension
Context Clues
Active reading
Conclude

13. Fixes the problem.
Setting a purpose before reading
Evaluate Information
Solution
Validity

14. Active reading means to...
Theme
Evaluate Information
Interact with the text
prior knowledge

15. Find differences between two or more things.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Fact
Primary Source
Contrast

16. We set a purpose for reading by...
Tone
Turning headings into questions
Major concepts of the chapter
reading comprehension

17. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Simile
Supporting Details
Set puprose for reading

18. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Text Features
Analyze Information
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
previewing the text

19. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Set puprose for reading
Context Clues
reading
Problem

20. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Contrast
Cause
previewing the text
potential essay questions

21. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Hyperbole
Sequence of Events
Simile
A pre reading strategy

22. People or animals in a story.
Evaluate Information
Metaphor
Effect
Characters

23. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
K-W-L strategy
Set puprose for reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy

24. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Metaphor
Text Features
Primary Source
Analyze Information

25. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Plot
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Simile
promotes active reading

26. Make predictions while you are...
Active reading
prior knowledge is activated
Making predictions
previewing the text

27. Find similarities between two or more things.
A pre reading strategy
Simile
Compare
passages in the chapter

28. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Opinion
new to the known
Compare
Onomatopoeia

29. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
new to the known
Author's Purpose
Characters
Opinion

30. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Conclude
Active reading
Plot

31. Making predictions before and durning reading...
reading comprehension
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Metaphor
promotes active reading

32. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Alliteration
K-W-L strategy
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose

33. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...

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34. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
A pre reading strategy
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Interact with the text
Analyze Information

35. Activate your prior knowledge when...
reading
Making predictions
Setting
Simile

36. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Secondary Source
Alliteration
Context Clues

37. Reading comprehension increases when...
prior knowledge is activated
Interact with the text
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Effect

38. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Metaphor
Reliability
Plot

39. Details that support the main idea.
Tone
Main Idea
Effect
Supporting Details

40. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Process of Elimination
Evaluate Information
Making predictions

41. When and where the story takes place.
Secondary Source
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Setting
P.O.R.P.E strategy

42. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
reading comprehension
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
new to the known
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

43. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Tone
Setting a purpose before reading
A pre reading strategy
Sequence of Events

44. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
Cause
Active reading
Author's Purpose

45. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
K-W-L strategy
Active reading
purpose for reading

46. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
new to the known
reading comprehension
Infer
Text Features

47. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
Analyze Information
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Secondary Source

48. The 4P startegy promotes...
Analyze Information
Active reading
Characters
Onomatopoeia

49. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Major concepts of the chapter
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Analyze Information
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

50. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Set puprose for reading
promotes active reading
Validity
Infer

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