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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. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Reliability
Analyze Information
Tone
Solution
2. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Setting a purpose before reading
Simile
Contrast
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
3. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Text Features
Sequence of Events
Turning headings into questions
Onomatopoeia
4. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Primary Source
reading comprehension
5. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Theme
passages in the chapter
Context Clues
Alliteration
6. 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
Theme
potential essay questions
prior knowledge
7. Find similarities between two or more things.
potential essay questions
Alliteration
Compare
new to the known
8. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Simile
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Metaphor
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
9. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
K-W-L strategy
Compare
Active reading
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
10. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Set puprose for reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Validity
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
11. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
reading comprehension
K-W-L strategy
Validity
Personification
12. The 4P startegy promotes...
Active reading
Theme
Text Features
Supporting Details
13. The 3 stages of reading are...
Infer
Solution
Process of Elimination
prereading - durning reading and after reading
14. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
Sequence of Events
Reliability
promotes active reading
15. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
reading comprehension
Primary Source
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Active reading
16. Why something happens.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Theme
Cause
Tone
17. Make predictions while you are...
Secondary Source
previewing the text
Making predictions
Effect
18. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Reliability
Context Clues
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
K-W-L strategy
19. Fixes the problem.
Solution
previewing the text
Validity
End of a chapter
20. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
reading comprehension
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Fact
Opinion
21. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Reliability
K-W-L strategy
Conclude
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
22. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Opinion
Secondary Source
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
reading
23. When and where the story takes place.
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Setting
K-W-L strategy
24. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Supporting Details
Active reading
Major concepts of the chapter
reading comprehension
25. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Personification
Metaphor
End of a chapter
Turning headings into questions
26. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Context Clues
reading comprehension
Major concepts of the chapter
27. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
Main Idea
Interact with the text
prior knowledge
28. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Set puprose for reading
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Setting a purpose before reading
prereading - durning reading and after reading
29. Details that support the main idea.
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Supporting Details
Simile
Theme
30. Reading comprehension increases when...
new to the known
A pre reading strategy
prior knowledge is activated
Turning headings into questions
31. Something that is wrong.
Fact
Set puprose for reading
Problem
Opinion
32. The 4P startegy is...
Theme
A pre reading strategy
Alliteration
Compare
33. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
reading comprehension
new to the known
Set puprose for reading
Solution
34. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
prior knowledge
promotes active reading
Simile
Active reading
35. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Problem
Tone
Making predictions
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
36. Find differences between two or more things.
Turning headings into questions
promotes active reading
Contrast
Infer
37. Making predictions before and durning reading...
new to the known
Making predictions
promotes active reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
38. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
Hyperbole
Plot
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
39. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Process of Elimination
potential essay questions
Active reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
40. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
A pre reading strategy
Personification
Compare
41. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
reading
Setting a purpose before reading
Reliability
Plot
42. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Tone
Simile
prior knowledge
Effect
43. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Theme
Interact with the text
Alliteration
prior knowledge
44. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
K-W-L strategy
promotes active reading
Cause
purpose for reading
45. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
46. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Theme
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Main Idea
Sequence of Events
47. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Process of Elimination
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Characters
Context Clues
48. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Process of Elimination
Opinion
Supporting Details
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
49. What happens as a result.
Active reading
previewing the text
Effect
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
50. Pre reading is done before...
purpose for reading
Problem
Process of Elimination
reading