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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. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Interact with the text
Problem
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Opinion
2. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
prior knowledge
Evaluate Information
reading
Opinion
3. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
new to the known
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Turning headings into questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
4. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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5. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Fact
Simile
Active reading
Compare
6. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
End of a chapter
Characters
reading comprehension
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
7. Exaggeration for effect: I ate a million dollars worth of food!
purpose for reading
Analyze Information
Hyperbole
Characters
8. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
Context Clues
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Personification
purpose for reading
9. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Main Idea
Onomatopoeia
Fact
Opinion
10. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
Conclude
Personification
K-W-L strategy
11. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Metaphor
Compare
12. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Active reading
new to the known
K-W-L strategy
Reliability
13. The 4P startegy is...
Setting a purpose before reading
Opinion
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
A pre reading strategy
14. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Supporting Details
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Process of Elimination
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
15. What the story is Mainly about.
Main Idea
new to the known
Setting a purpose before reading
Turning headings into questions
16. People or animals in a story.
Infer
Plot
reading
Characters
17. What happens as a result.
Effect
Characters
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Major concepts of the chapter
18. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
potential essay questions
End of a chapter
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Contrast
19. Active reading means to...
Validity
purpose for reading
Analyze Information
Interact with the text
20. Pre reading is done before...
reading
A pre reading strategy
prior knowledge
Text Features
21. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Main Idea
Opinion
Primary Source
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
22. 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
Tone
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Primary Source
23. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
promotes active reading
reading comprehension
Alliteration
Tone
24. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Interact with the text
Active reading
Opinion
End of a chapter
25. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Analyze Information
Theme
Hyperbole
Interact with the text
26. The 4P startegy promotes...
Plot
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Active reading
Hyperbole
27. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
Cause
prior knowledge
potential essay questions
Turning headings into questions
28. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Sequence of Events
reading comprehension
Context Clues
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
29. Details that support the main idea.
prior knowledge
Making predictions
Problem
Supporting Details
30. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Reliability
Plot
Theme
Solution
31. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Characters
Opinion
Alliteration
passages in the chapter
32. We set a purpose for reading by...
Turning headings into questions
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Author's Purpose
Problem
33. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Plot
Tone
Primary Source
Making predictions
34. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Secondary Source
Theme
reading comprehension
Plot
35. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Secondary Source
promotes active reading
Main Idea
Problem
36. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Interact with the text
new to the known
Conclude
Effect
37. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Sequence of Events
purpose for reading
Infer
Hyperbole
38. Why something happens.
Context Clues
Reliability
passages in the chapter
Cause
39. Something that is wrong.
Plot
passages in the chapter
Problem
prereading - durning reading and after reading
40. Make predictions while you are...
previewing the text
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
reading comprehension
Text Features
41. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Setting a purpose before reading
Secondary Source
Process of Elimination
Evaluate Information
42. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
passages in the chapter
Sequence of Events
Interact with the text
Metaphor
43. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
Context Clues
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Simile
passages in the chapter
44. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
K-W-L strategy
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Theme
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
45. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Making predictions
Personification
Setting
Validity
46. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Making predictions
Set puprose for reading
Conclude
Context Clues
47. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Characters
Evaluate Information
Secondary Source
Setting
48. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
End of a chapter
Turning headings into questions
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Evaluate Information
49. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
Major concepts of the chapter
Contrast
Tone
50. Find differences between two or more things.
Active reading
Turning headings into questions
Contrast
P.O.R.P.E strategy