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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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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. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Reliability
Conclude
purpose for reading
2. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Alliteration
End of a chapter
A pre reading strategy
3. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Hyperbole
prior knowledge
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Tone
4. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
prior knowledge
Compare
Characters
Major concepts of the chapter
5. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
reading comprehension
Making predictions
Turning headings into questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
6. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Analyze Information
Infer
Theme
Alliteration
7. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
reading comprehension
Setting
Problem
8. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Text Features
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Author's Purpose
Plot
9. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Opinion
Tone
Author's Purpose
new to the known
10. Find differences between two or more things.
Reliability
potential essay questions
Contrast
Analyze Information
11. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Secondary Source
Evaluate Information
Onomatopoeia
Theme
12. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Fact
Major concepts of the chapter
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Contrast
13. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Process of Elimination
Secondary Source
prior knowledge
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
14. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Main Idea
Hyperbole
Major concepts of the chapter
Solution
15. 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
Major concepts of the chapter
Characters
K-W-L strategy
16. Something that is wrong.
prereading - durning reading and after reading
new to the known
Interact with the text
Problem
17. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Infer
Fact
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Main Idea
18. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Secondary Source
promotes active reading
Effect
Tone
19. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Author's Purpose
Secondary Source
Turning headings into questions
20. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
potential essay questions
Sequence of Events
Analyze Information
passages in the chapter
21. Pre reading is done before...
prior knowledge is activated
reading
Major concepts of the chapter
prereading - durning reading and after reading
22. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Problem
Characters
Personification
23. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
promotes active reading
Supporting Details
prior knowledge is activated
Opinion
24. Fixes the problem.
Major concepts of the chapter
Solution
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Infer
25. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading
Conclude
Secondary Source
Effect
26. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Cause
Effect
K-W-L strategy
Setting
27. Why something happens.
Problem
Conclude
Compare
Cause
28. Active reading means to...
Active reading
Main Idea
Interact with the text
Onomatopoeia
29. The 4P startegy promotes...
Active reading
Cause
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Supporting Details
30. Make predictions while you are...
Major concepts of the chapter
previewing the text
reading comprehension
Solution
31. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
promotes active reading
Sequence of Events
Theme
Personification
32. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
passages in the chapter
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading comprehension
Characters
33. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Analyze Information
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Making predictions
promotes active reading
34. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Interact with the text
Alliteration
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
35. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Characters
Theme
Tone
prior knowledge is activated
36. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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37. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
previewing the text
Context Clues
38. When and where the story takes place.
Setting
Analyze Information
reading
Metaphor
39. We set a purpose for reading by...
Set puprose for reading
Metaphor
Alliteration
Turning headings into questions
40. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
potential essay questions
Evaluate Information
Personification
Set puprose for reading
41. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
passages in the chapter
Text Features
Author's Purpose
reading comprehension
42. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Opinion
reading
Set puprose for reading
43. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Cause
Reliability
Theme
44. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
prior knowledge
Tone
new to the known
Metaphor
45. People or animals in a story.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Fact
Characters
Context Clues
46. Reading comprehension increases when...
Context Clues
Major concepts of the chapter
prior knowledge is activated
Setting
47. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Metaphor
purpose for reading
Making predictions
Process of Elimination
48. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Contrast
reading comprehension
49. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
A pre reading strategy
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
50. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Active reading
Problem
End of a chapter
purpose for reading