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