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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. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Metaphor
Main Idea
Hyperbole
purpose for reading
2. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
A pre reading strategy
Evaluate Information
Validity
Reliability
3. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
reading comprehension
Onomatopoeia
Contrast
promotes active reading
4. Details that support the main idea.
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
promotes active reading
reading
Supporting Details
5. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Personification
passages in the chapter
Author's Purpose
Making predictions
6. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Making predictions
Analyze Information
Plot
Onomatopoeia
7. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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8. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Simile
Main Idea
K-W-L strategy
Hyperbole
9. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Text Features
prior knowledge is activated
Author's Purpose
Major concepts of the chapter
10. Make predictions while you are...
previewing the text
End of a chapter
Turning headings into questions
Active reading
11. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
End of a chapter
Sequence of Events
promotes active reading
prior knowledge
12. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
previewing the text
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
13. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Opinion
new to the known
Active reading
Author's Purpose
14. People or animals in a story.
Evaluate Information
Primary Source
Making predictions
Characters
15. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Interact with the text
Simile
Solution
Alliteration
16. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Text Features
new to the known
17. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Main Idea
Cause
K-W-L strategy
promotes active reading
18. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Secondary Source
Process of Elimination
Supporting Details
19. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Major concepts of the chapter
previewing the text
Primary Source
Context Clues
20. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
passages in the chapter
Plot
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Set puprose for reading
21. The 3 stages of reading are...
Personification
Infer
Contrast
prereading - durning reading and after reading
22. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Hyperbole
promotes active reading
Making predictions
K-W-L strategy
23. When and where the story takes place.
Author's Purpose
Making predictions
Setting
prereading - durning reading and after reading
24. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
reading comprehension
Setting
Text Features
Plot
25. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Process of Elimination
Secondary Source
Theme
Personification
26. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Making predictions
Set puprose for reading
purpose for reading
Personification
27. What happens as a result.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Effect
Sequence of Events
Characters
28. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Secondary Source
Conclude
Active reading
Text Features
29. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading
promotes active reading
Opinion
A pre reading strategy
30. Fixes the problem.
Set puprose for reading
Solution
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
reading comprehension
31. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Validity
previewing the text
Hyperbole
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
32. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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33. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Making predictions
prior knowledge
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
34. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Making predictions
Problem
passages in the chapter
Active reading
35. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Set puprose for reading
Reliability
reading comprehension
potential essay questions
36. The 4P startegy promotes...
K-W-L strategy
Active reading
Contrast
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
37. Find similarities between two or more things.
Process of Elimination
Context Clues
Compare
Evaluate Information
38. Reading comprehension increases when...
prior knowledge is activated
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Evaluate Information
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
39. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Problem
Secondary Source
Infer
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
40. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Author's Purpose
Metaphor
Reliability
Process of Elimination
41. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
potential essay questions
Author's Purpose
previewing the text
Fact
42. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Interact with the text
Context Clues
End of a chapter
43. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
potential essay questions
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Personification
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
44. The 4P startegy is...
Analyze Information
A pre reading strategy
potential essay questions
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
45. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
Major concepts of the chapter
Active reading
Metaphor
46. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Interact with the text
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Validity
Text Features
47. Find differences between two or more things.
Personification
Contrast
Process of Elimination
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
48. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Major concepts of the chapter
Reliability
Context Clues
reading comprehension
49. Chapters summaries reflect the...
promotes active reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Major concepts of the chapter
Reliability
50. Something that is wrong.
Problem
Set puprose for reading
Setting a purpose before reading
Reliability