Reading Section Strategies Review

Reading Section Strategies Review

Test over a passage and questions TOMORROW!

Multiple Select

What are the concepts we review this week during class?

• Main Idea and Voice

• Explicit Details

• Vocabulary

• Development

• Implied Ideas and Applications

Multiple Choice

The _______ is the what of the passage.

• development

• purpose

• focus

• details

Multiple Choice

The purpose is the _______ of a passage.

• why

• when

• how

• what

Multiple Choice

Explicit Details:

You should play the detective and note the explicit details like the place, time, people involved, and location of events.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

You need to memorize the details of the story as you read.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

The most explicit details are _________, or definite truths that can be backed up by specific words in the reading.

• main idea

• facts

• vocabulary

• development

Recap Main Idea, Voice, and Explicit Details:

The focus is the what of a passage

The purpose is the why of a passage

Details are facts that should not be memorized.
They include the place, time, people involved, and location of events.

Multiple Choice

Besides the facts, or details in the story, we should also pay attention to how that story unfolds, or how it ____________.

• ends

• begins

• develops

• continues

Multiple Select

There are two different kinds of development: (pick 2 from the choices)

• the sequence of events

• cause-effect relationship

• chronological order

• beginning to the end

Multiple Select

Some signal words from the sequence of events clarify the order in which they took place. Some examples are:

• prior to

• yesterday

• then

• henceforth

• at the beginning

Multiple Choice

"During," "as," or "while" are examples of signal phrases that signal the event is taking place at the same time as another.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Examples of numerical signal words are all EXCEPT:

• first

• second

• during

• third

Multiple Choice

Non-numerical chronological signal words are "then," "while," _______ or "during"

• later

• first

• second

• third

Multiple Select

Cause-Effect relationship signal phrases include:

• because

• since

• consequently

• as a result

• if..then

Recap Development:

• Sequence of Events - signal words: prior to, at the beginning, soon after, henceforth, during, as, while, first, second, later

• Cause-Effect -signal words: because, since, as a result, consequently, if...then

Multiple Choice

You always need to know a dictionary definition of vocabulary in a passage.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Most sentences contain ________ you can use to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

• context

• clues

• defintions

Multiple Choice

________ is a word that has the same meaning as another word.

• synonym

• antonyms

• transients

• modifiers

Multiple Choice

After yesterday's lesson, we know lugubrious means _________

From the sample question:

My friend Jason, a guitarist, always plays lugubrious, mournful folk songs. Although he is an excellent musician, I wish he occasionally would play more upbeat tunes with happier lyrics.

• exciting

• depressing

• romantic

• optimisitic

Multiple Choice

Implied Ideas and Applications:

As a good reader, you should follow clues left by the writer to ___________ about the information in the passage.

• apply

• draw conclusions

• develop

• distinguish

Multiple Choice

We constantly draw conclusions daily when we see ads.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Drawing a ___________ that is, a decision or judgment about people of events.

• conclusion

• picture

• profile

• main idea

Multiple Choice

Your conclusion about a passage doesn't have to be supported by the passage.

• true

• false

Recap Vocabulary and Implied Ideas and Applications

• Vocabulary - use synonyms and antonyms to help, won't need dictionary meaning memorization, use context clues

• Implied Ideas and Applications - clues will be left in reading to allow me to draw conclusions, must be directly supported by the passage (not prior knowledge)