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