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Reading Skills And Strategies

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
reading comprehension
passages in the chapter
Sequence of Events
P.O.R.P.E strategy

2. Details that support the main idea.
Context Clues
Secondary Source
Supporting Details
Setting a purpose before reading

3. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Opinion
Theme
reading comprehension
K-W-L strategy

4. Pre reading is done before...
Problem
reading
Process of Elimination
Infer

5. Fixes the problem.
K-W-L strategy
Process of Elimination
Tone
Solution

6. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Conclude
Cause
Opinion
End of a chapter

7. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Alliteration
previewing the text
Reliability
prior knowledge is activated

8. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
potential essay questions
Alliteration
K-W-L strategy

9. Make predictions while you are...
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Personification
Simile
previewing the text

10. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Alliteration
new to the known
Simile
passages in the chapter

11. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
promotes active reading
Set puprose for reading
Evaluate Information
End of a chapter

12. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Active reading
Tone
Simile
Analyze Information

13. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Secondary Source
Primary Source
Problem
passages in the chapter

14. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
Main Idea
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
prior knowledge

15. Activate your prior knowledge when...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Contrast
Solution
Making predictions

16. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Context Clues
Fact
P.O.R.P.E strategy

17. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Set puprose for reading
Solution
new to the known
Evaluate Information

18. Active reading means to...
Context Clues
End of a chapter
Interact with the text
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions

19. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Evaluate Information
Opinion
Theme
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions

20. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
K-W-L strategy
purpose for reading
reading comprehension
Primary Source

21. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
Characters
Text Features
A pre reading strategy
previewing the text

22. Reading comprehension increases when...
promotes active reading
Major concepts of the chapter
prior knowledge is activated
Conclude

23. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Analyze Information
Hyperbole
Setting
Active reading

24. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Secondary Source
K-W-L strategy
Cause

25. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Turning headings into questions
Author's Purpose
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia

26. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Personification
Main Idea
Interact with the text
Cause

27. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Theme
Setting a purpose before reading
promotes active reading
Fact

28. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
prior knowledge is activated
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Active reading
Problem

29. What the story is Mainly about.
Main Idea
Tone
purpose for reading
Simile

30. Making predictions before and durning reading...
promotes active reading
Context Clues
Author's Purpose
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

31. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Contrast
Process of Elimination
Sequence of Events
promotes active reading

32. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Metaphor
Text Features
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Cause

33. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Major concepts of the chapter
Sequence of Events
Interact with the text
Fact

34. Find similarities between two or more things.
previewing the text
Compare
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Plot

35. Why something happens.
new to the known
Onomatopoeia
Evaluate Information
Cause

36. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Onomatopoeia
reading comprehension
Setting a purpose before reading
Characters

37. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Personification
Process of Elimination
Solution
Theme

38. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Contrast
Setting
Infer
Onomatopoeia

39. Find differences between two or more things.
K-W-L strategy
Effect
Alliteration
Contrast

40. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
reading comprehension
Setting
Metaphor
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

41. We set a purpose for reading by...
Effect
prior knowledge is activated
Turning headings into questions
purpose for reading

42. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...

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43. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
purpose for reading
Process of Elimination
Secondary Source
promotes active reading

44. What happens as a result.
Active reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Effect
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

45. When and where the story takes place.
Context Clues
Setting
Analyze Information
Sequence of Events

46. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Reliability
Personification
A pre reading strategy
Context Clues

47. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
reading comprehension
Reliability
Validity

48. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Main Idea
reading comprehension
Process of Elimination

49. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Contrast
Process of Elimination
Conclude
Solution

50. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Opinion
Author's Purpose
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Compare