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Reading Skills And Strategies

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fixes the problem.
Conclude
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Solution
End of a chapter

2. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Simile
Interact with the text
Secondary Source
Alliteration

3. Find differences between two or more things.
Plot
Personification
reading comprehension
Contrast

4. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Problem
End of a chapter
Text Features
Primary Source

5. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Plot
new to the known
Fact
promotes active reading

6. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
purpose for reading
prior knowledge
Opinion
Secondary Source

7. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Set puprose for reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Problem
potential essay questions

8. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Context Clues
Active reading
End of a chapter
Fact

9. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Opinion
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
promotes active reading
Text Features

10. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
reading comprehension
Personification
Secondary Source
Validity

11. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Analyze Information
Setting a purpose before reading
Major concepts of the chapter
Theme

12. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Supporting Details
Effect
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Infer

13. The 3 stages of reading are...
Theme
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Analyze Information
Problem

14. Why something happens.
Setting
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Context Clues
Cause

15. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Sequence of Events
Secondary Source
Active reading
Turning headings into questions

16. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Plot
Metaphor
K-W-L strategy
Opinion

17. When and where the story takes place.
Effect
Setting a purpose before reading
Setting
passages in the chapter

18. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
previewing the text
Analyze Information
P.O.R.P.E strategy
K-W-L strategy

19. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Turning headings into questions
Infer
Main Idea
Sequence of Events

20. Pre reading is done before...
Effect
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
reading
Secondary Source

21. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Tone
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Problem
Sequence of Events

22. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Problem
Text Features
Hyperbole
Conclude

23. Find similarities between two or more things.
Process of Elimination
Compare
reading comprehension
Active reading

24. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Analyze Information
reading
Plot
passages in the chapter

25. Make predictions while you are...
previewing the text
Characters
Evaluate Information
Validity

26. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
promotes active reading
Tone
Evaluate Information
Effect

27. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
prior knowledge
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Author's Purpose
Hyperbole

28. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Tone
Primary Source
passages in the chapter
Making predictions

29. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Characters
Reliability
Simile
Secondary Source

30. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Major concepts of the chapter

31. People or animals in a story.
Reliability
Infer
Characters
Setting

32. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
prior knowledge is activated
Compare
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Effect

33. The 4P startegy is...
Evaluate Information
K-W-L strategy
A pre reading strategy
Tone

34. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Major concepts of the chapter
Conclude
Cause
Secondary Source

35. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Active reading
Primary Source

36. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
previewing the text
Setting a purpose before reading
Theme
Solution

37. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
purpose for reading
Active reading
Context Clues

38. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Alliteration
Tone
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Author's Purpose

39. The 4P startegy promotes...
Interact with the text
Infer
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Active reading

40. We set a purpose for reading by...
Opinion
Turning headings into questions
Simile
Evaluate Information

41. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.

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42. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Evaluate Information
Setting a purpose before reading
reading

43. Active reading means to...
Main Idea
Interact with the text
Supporting Details
Active reading

44. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
End of a chapter
reading comprehension
Opinion
Supporting Details

45. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Secondary Source
Compare
new to the known

46. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Process of Elimination
Effect
Main Idea
prior knowledge is activated

47. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Simile
K-W-L strategy
reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

48. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Setting a purpose before reading
passages in the chapter
Set puprose for reading
prior knowledge

49. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Text Features
prior knowledge is activated
purpose for reading
prior knowledge

50. Details that support the main idea.
Active reading
Supporting Details
Conclude
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's