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Reading Skills And Strategies

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1. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
purpose for reading
Solution
Sequence of Events
reading comprehension

2. Pre reading is done before...
Primary Source
reading
Contrast
Infer

3. The second P in the 4P strategy refers to setting a...
promotes active reading
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
purpose for reading
Alliteration

4. The ways authors organize information in the text: chronological order - cause/effect - compare/contrast - problem/solution.
Hyperbole
passages in the chapter
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

5. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Evaluate Information
P.O.R.P.E strategy
reading comprehension
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions

6. Sound - just - well-founded - logical: having a VALID driver's license.
Process of Elimination
Validity
Secondary Source
purpose for reading

7. Research reveals that prior knowledge is the number one factor effecting...
Secondary Source
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Plot
reading comprehension

8. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Reliability
Making predictions
Active reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

9. Attitude of the author: sarcastic - amusing - serious.
Tone
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Setting
Solution

10. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
Contrast
Alliteration
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
promotes active reading

11. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
prior knowledge is activated
Conclude
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
reading comprehension

12. Find differences between two or more things.
prior knowledge
Secondary Source
K-W-L strategy
Contrast

13. The 4 steps of the 4P strategy are...
new to the known
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
potential essay questions
Infer

14. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Secondary Source
passages in the chapter
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
reading comprehension

15. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Author's Purpose
Evaluate Information
Supporting Details
Turning headings into questions

16. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Secondary Source
Fact
Turning headings into questions
Process of Elimination

17. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
Compare
previewing the text
P.O.R.P.E strategy
End of a chapter

18. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Plot
Metaphor
reading
Supporting Details

19. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Context Clues
Analyze Information
prior knowledge
Active reading

20. Chapters summaries reflect the...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Fact
Evaluate Information
Major concepts of the chapter

21. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Set puprose for reading
Conclude
Fact
Effect

22. The 4P strategy can be utilized in correlation with the...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
potential essay questions
Secondary Source
Opinion

23. Activate your prior knowledge when...
Interact with the text
Making predictions
Context Clues
Tone

24. Reading comprehension increases when...
Main Idea
prior knowledge is activated
purpose for reading
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's

25. Make predictions while you are...
previewing the text
Simile
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Setting a purpose before reading

26. The 3 stages of reading are...
P.O.R.P.E strategy
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Setting a purpose before reading
Metaphor

27. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Major concepts of the chapter
Interact with the text
Reliability
Fact

28. Why the author writes something: to entertain - persuade - inform.

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29. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
K-W-L strategy
Metaphor
Secondary Source
Onomatopoeia

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

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31. What happens as a result.
Effect
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Process of Elimination

32. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
prior knowledge
End of a chapter
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Reliability

33. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Setting a purpose before reading
promotes active reading

34. The 4P startegy promotes...
Setting a purpose before reading
Active reading
Evaluate Information
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose

35. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Plot
Infer
Simile
Text Features

36. Fixes the problem.
Context Clues
Solution
Supporting Details
Text Structures/Organizational Patters

37. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
prior knowledge
End of a chapter
Validity
Text Features

38. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Sequence of Events
K-W-L strategy
Primary Source
End of a chapter

39. P.O.R.P.E stands for...
Metaphor
prior knowledge
purpose for reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

40. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Personification
Hyperbole
Tone
new to the known

41. Find similarities between two or more things.
promotes active reading
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Compare
reading comprehension

42. What the story is Mainly about.
Personification
Making predictions
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Main Idea

43. Original - 1st-hand accounts of an event - written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event: diaries - speeches - autobiographies - newspapers.
Solution
Primary Source
prior knowledge
Personification

44. Get rid of wrong answers. Increases your chances of getting the answer correct!
Evaluate Information
Process of Elimination
prior knowledge
Analyze Information

45. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
K-W-L strategy
Setting a purpose before reading
End of a chapter
Opinion

46. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Set puprose for reading
Author's Purpose
Contrast
passages in the chapter

47. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Supporting Details
Reliability
Secondary Source
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate

48. Something that is wrong.
Problem
Compare
Metaphor
Contrast

49. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Problem
new to the known
reading
Onomatopoeia

50. When and where the story takes place.
Conclude
Setting
Process of Elimination
prior knowledge is activated

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