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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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1. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Turning headings into questions
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
prior knowledge
2. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Validity
Set puprose for reading
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Problem
3. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Reliability
prior knowledge is activated
Fact
reading comprehension
4. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Active reading
Personification
A pre reading strategy
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
5. Details that support the main idea.
Compare
previewing the text
Supporting Details
Fact
6. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Tone
Turning headings into questions
purpose for reading
7. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
K-W-L strategy
reading comprehension
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
8. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
K-W-L strategy
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Opinion
9. Active reading means to...
Interact with the text
Setting a purpose before reading
Supporting Details
Infer
10. Why something happens.
Cause
new to the known
passages in the chapter
Compare
11. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Theme
Infer
Fact
Analyze Information
12. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Analyze Information
reading
End of a chapter
Contrast
13. Fixes the problem.
Solution
purpose for reading
Validity
new to the known
14. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Tone
Active reading
Metaphor
15. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Active reading
purpose for reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Plot
16. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Active reading
Supporting Details
17. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
End of a chapter
Sequence of Events
Alliteration
Infer
18. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Opinion
P.O.R.P.E strategy
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Simile
19. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Onomatopoeia
Turning headings into questions
20. Make predictions while you are...
previewing the text
reading comprehension
Evaluate Information
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
21. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Sequence of Events
Setting
Primary Source
Hyperbole
22. We set a purpose for reading by...
Personification
Turning headings into questions
Conclude
Author's Purpose
23. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Main Idea
Setting a purpose before reading
potential essay questions
Hyperbole
24. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Plot
Onomatopoeia
A pre reading strategy
Sequence of Events
25. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Compare
Making predictions
previewing the text
Tone
26. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Interact with the text
reading comprehension
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
promotes active reading
27. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Validity
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Onomatopoeia
potential essay questions
28. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
passages in the chapter
potential essay questions
new to the known
prior knowledge
29. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Tone
Plot
Compare
previewing the text
30. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
purpose for reading
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Text Features
passages in the chapter
31. Pre reading is done before...
Effect
Characters
reading
Author's Purpose
32. Find differences between two or more things.
Contrast
Solution
Effect
P.O.R.P.E strategy
33. Find similarities between two or more things.
Compare
Evaluate Information
Infer
prereading - durning reading and after reading
34. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Simile
passages in the chapter
Active reading
Evaluate Information
35. Reading comprehension increases when...
prior knowledge
prior knowledge is activated
purpose for reading
Supporting Details
36. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Context Clues
promotes active reading
Active reading
reading comprehension
37. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Conclude
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Major concepts of the chapter
prereading - durning reading and after reading
38. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
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39. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Set puprose for reading
new to the known
Analyze Information
40. People or animals in a story.
Analyze Information
Author's Purpose
Secondary Source
Characters
41. 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
Metaphor
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Active reading
42. Conclusion suggested in text but not stated directly.
Infer
Text Features
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
43. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
potential essay questions
Context Clues
Author's Purpose
Infer
44. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
Reliability
Validity
Secondary Source
P.O.R.P.E strategy
45. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Simile
Setting a purpose before reading
previewing the text
46. The 4P startegy promotes...
Turning headings into questions
Active reading
Opinion
reading comprehension
47. What happens as a result.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Active reading
previewing the text
Effect
48. The 3 stages of reading are...
prereading - durning reading and after reading
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Active reading
Sequence of Events
49. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.
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50. What the story is Mainly about.
Main Idea
Tone
Active reading
Primary Source