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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. We set a purpose for reading by...
Turning headings into questions
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
prior knowledge
2. Help readers easily read through text and provide additional information to help comprehend the material: headings - subheadings - pictures - italics - bold - underline - text box.
A pre reading strategy
Setting a purpose before reading
Text Features
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
3. Reading comprehension increases when...
prior knowledge is activated
Process of Elimination
reading comprehension
Problem
4. The 3 stages of reading are...
Process of Elimination
Active reading
prereading - durning reading and after reading
Context Clues
5. The 4P and K-W-L strategy both involve...
Secondary Source
Setting a purpose before reading
Setting
Interact with the text
6. We utilize charts and graphs to set purpose for reading by...
7. Previewing definitions before reading increases...
Simile
Supporting Details
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
reading comprehension
8. Judgement based on clues in text and own knowledge.
Evaluate Information
Conclude
Opinion
Hyperbole
9. The definition of prior knowledge is what we already know and connecting...
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
new to the known
10. Something that can be proven: There are seven days in a week.
Process of Elimination
Fact
Problem
Major concepts of the chapter
11. Setting purpose for reading promotes...
Active reading
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Effect
12. Giving nonhuman objects - human characteristics.
Personification
Supporting Details
Alliteration
Infer
13. Active reading means to...
prior knowledge
Interact with the text
Main Idea
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
14. Also preveiw questions and chapters at the...
End of a chapter
prior knowledge
reading comprehension
potential essay questions
15. Analyzes and interprets primary sources - 2nd-hand accounts: biographies - book reviews - encyclopedias.
Simile
Text Features
Contrast
Secondary Source
16. Charts and graphs reveal important information about...
Secondary Source
Analyze Information
passages in the chapter
Active reading
17. The major parts of a text chapter to preview includes...
A pre reading strategy
K-W-L strategy
Author's Purpose
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
18. What else do we use to set purpose for reading?
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
Cause
Effect
Major concepts of the chapter
19. When and where the story takes place.
Process of Elimination
Setting
Setting a purpose before reading
Evaluate Information
20. Something that is wrong.
Evaluate Information
Hyperbole
Problem
Compare
21. Examine and judge carefully: The principal evaluates teachers to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Infer
Simile
A pre reading strategy
Evaluate Information
22. All the MAJOR events that happen in the story.
Plot
Active reading
Infer
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
23. The 4P strategy is similar to the...
Context Clues
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Interact with the text
K-W-L strategy
24. Find similarities between two or more things.
Simile
Plot
Compare
Turning headings into questions
25. Pre reading is done before...
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
reading
Solution
Text Features
26. Fixes the problem.
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
Active reading
Solution
Turning chapter objectives and topic sentences into questions
27. One of the benefits of previewing is that it builds...
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
prior knowledge
A pre reading strategy
28. Something someone thinks or believes: Florida is the best state to live in!
Turning headings into questions
Active reading
Supporting Details
Opinion
29. Dependable - accuracy - honesty - trustworthy: My friend is very reliable; I can count on her anytime.
Reliability
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Main Idea
prior knowledge
30. People or animals in a story.
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Characters
Solution
Author's Purpose
31. The 4P strategy and the SQR3 strategy both involve...
Setting a purpose before reading and invole developing questions
Problem
previewing the text
Personification
32. Order in which events happen. Also called chronological order: First - Then - Next - Finally.
Supporting Details
Onomatopoeia
Sequence of Events
Compare
33. Words that imitate the sound they represent: Boom!
Plot
Onomatopoeia
Contrast
Theme
34. Comparing two or more things using the words LIKE or AS.
Reliability
promotes active reading
Simile
Plot
35. To examine in detail in order to discover meaning: analyze a poem.
Primary Source
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
new to the known
Analyze Information
36. The 4P startegy promotes...
Evaluate Information
Active reading
K-W-L strategy
Reliability
37. Developing questions before reading also helps in predicting...
potential essay questions
P.O.R.P.E strategy
Setting
Infer
38. Making predictions before and durning reading...
Set puprose for reading
promotes active reading
Tone
headings - sub headings - chapter objectives - pictures - graphs - charts and into parragraphs
39. Why something happens.
Conclude
Setting a purpose before reading
Cause
previewing the text
40. What the story is Mainly about.
Problem
Turning major concpets presented in graphs and charts into question's
Main Idea
Metaphor
41. The 4P startegy is...
A pre reading strategy
Active reading
Metaphor
prior knowledge
42. Comparing two or more things NOT using like or as.
Evaluate Information
Analyze Information
Metaphor
Tone
43. Words or phrases around an Unknown word to help determine its meaning.
Hyperbole
Theme
Active reading
Context Clues
44. Details that support the main idea.
Supporting Details
Conclude
Main Idea
Metaphor
45. Pre-reading questions at the end of the chapter helps...
Personification
Set puprose for reading
Theme
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
46. Make predictions while you are...
K-W-L strategy
purpose for reading
Text Features
previewing the text
47. What happens as a result.
P-predict O- organize R-rehearse P-practice and E-evaluate
Effect
Characters
Personification
48. Find differences between two or more things.
Contrast
Interact with the text
Turning headings into questions
potential essay questions
49. Repeating the same sound at the beginning or middle of a word: Sally sells sea shells.
preview - predict - prior knowlegde - and purpose
Text Structures/Organizational Patters
Setting a purpose before reading
Alliteration
50. A message the author wants to express: treat others the way you want to be treated.
Problem
Interact with the text
Theme
Text Structures/Organizational Patters