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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. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Hyperbole
Personification
Evaluate Information
new to the known
2. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Making predictions
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading comprehension
Plot
3. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Cause
Major concepts of the chapter
Active reading
Interact with the text
4. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Compare
Active reading
Cause
Simile
5. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Setting a purpose before reading
Effect
Simile
Fact
6. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Setting
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Primary Source
7. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Evaluate Information
Tone
Alliteration
Cause
8. Why something happens.
Context Clues
Cause
new to the known
Main Idea
9. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Tone
Solution
Plot
Process of Elimination
10. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Hyperbole
Evaluate Information
passages in the chapter
End of a chapter
11. Making predictions before and durning reading...
reading comprehension
Active reading
promotes active reading
Characters
12. The 4P startegy promotes...
Compare
Author's Purpose
Active reading
prereading - durning reading and after reading
13. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Compare
Primary Source
Tone
potential essay questions
14. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Process of Elimination
Sequence of Events
Turning headings into questions
Characters
15. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Characters
Set puprose for reading
Primary Source
Compare
16. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Metaphor
Alliteration
Tone
Contrast
17. People or animals in a story.
prereading - durning reading and after reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Setting
Characters
18. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Active reading
Characters
Context Clues
P.O.R.P.E strategy
19. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Infer
Setting a purpose before reading
Context Clues
passages in the chapter
20. We set a purpose for reading by...
Turning headings into questions
Alliteration
Personification
Set puprose for reading
21. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
reading comprehension
Setting
Main Idea
Characters
22. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Interact with the text
Setting
Personification
new to the known
23. Find differences between two or more things.
Making predictions
Onomatopoeia
Contrast
Cause
24. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Process of Elimination
reading
Evaluate Information
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
25. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
K-W-L strategy
Setting a purpose before reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Solution
26. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Process of Elimination
Plot
Turning headings into questions
Context Clues
27. Details that support the main idea.
Turning headings into questions
Set puprose for reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Supporting Details
28. 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
Tone
Author's Purpose
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
29. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Process of Elimination
Infer
Simile
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
30. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Setting
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Supporting Details
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
31. Fixes the problem.
Solution
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Set puprose for reading
Reliability
32. Find similarities between two or more things.
Contrast
Compare
Conclude
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
33. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Alliteration
Solution
Making predictions
Process of Elimination
34. The 3 stages of reading are...
previewing the text
Characters
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Interact with the text
35. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Tone
Active reading
Author's Purpose
36. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Compare
Validity
Setting a purpose before reading
K-W-L strategy
37. Reading comprehension increases when...
Theme
Primary Source
Hyperbole
prior knowledge is activated
38. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Fact
potential essay questions
Major concepts of the chapter
purpose for reading
39. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Simile
Opinion
Context Clues
purpose for reading
40. What happens as a result.
prereading - durning reading and after reading
A pre reading strategy
Theme
Effect
41. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Theme
Evaluate Information
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
P.O.R.P.E strategy
42. What the story is Mainly about.
Major concepts of the chapter
prior knowledge is activated
Main Idea
Making predictions
43. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Validity
Active reading
reading comprehension
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
44. The 4P startegy is...
reading
A pre reading strategy
Reliability
Conclude
45. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Evaluate Information
Simile
Conclude
Interact with the text
46. When and where the story takes place.
Setting
Making predictions
prior knowledge is activated
reading
47. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
prior knowledge is activated
Problem
Analyze Information
previewing the text
48. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
K-W-L strategy
Author's Purpose
potential essay questions
Secondary Source
49. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Opinion
End of a chapter
Alliteration
Author's Purpose
50. Active reading means to...
prior knowledge
Conclude
Interact with the text
A pre reading strategy