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