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