Reading Skills Overview

What technique do you use to determine main ideas?

• Scanning

• Reading every word

• Reading slowly

• Skimming

What are the two types of main ideas called?

• Local and overall main idea

• Gist and local main idea

• Global main idea and main idea of whole text

• Local main idea and paragraph main idea

Which of the following techniques do authors use to help readers determine the meaning of unknown words? Choose 2.

• Definition

• Antonyms

• Dictionary

• Footnotes

Determine the meaning of the underlined word.

My new neighbor was aloof unlike, my friendly old neighbor.

• Mean

• Kind

• Unfriendly

• Talkative

Determine the meaning of the underlined word. There were many vehicles in the parking lot. For example, there were busses, cars and trucks.

• Something used to transport people

• Schools

• Cars

• Machines

Which of the following questions is a detail question?

• Do you think the author would use alternative energy is his home?

• When did the olympics start?

• What is the gist of the text?

• What is the main idea of paragraph 4?

How many global main ideas does a text have?

• 4

• 3

• 1

• 6

The answer to inference questions is mentioned directly in the text.

• True

• False

To determine the global main idea you must: (Choose 2)

• Read every single word of the text

• Read the title

• Read the topic sentence of the 1st paragraph

• Read the topic sentence of all of the paragraphs

To determine the local main idea of a paragraph you must (choose 2):

• Read the topic sentence of that paragraph

• Look for repeated details

• Read the footnotes

• Read the paragraph before and after it