End of Year Comprehension and Reading Skills Check

Reading improves all of these skills EXCEPT

• Writing

• Spelling

• Comprehension

• Math

After I read my minimum of 20 minutes, I should

• Take a nap

• Eat a snack

• Record in my Reading Tracker

• Tell my mom

To increase reading comprehension and retention for learners, it is best to:

• give very short passages

• read aloud for the students

• provide a text with very simple language

• identify the purpose of reading the chosen text

12. Composing a concise statement on the main idea of a passage is a reading strategy referred to as:

 

• A) analyzing

• B) evaluating

• C) structuring

• D)Summarizing

  18-  A cloze test is generally used to test the……………. skill.

• A) reading

• B) writing

• C) listening

• D) speaking

When we ask students to read a text, evaluate it, and react to it, we are teaching ……….... .

• thorough reading

• critical reading

• scanning

• skimming

A teacher asks the students to match headlines with news stories. What is the purpose of this pre-reading activity?

• Focus on main idea

• Focus on details

• Guess vocabulary from context     

• Enrich sentence structure

In paragraph 3, what is the most likely reason Joey whispers?

• context clues

• inferencing and drawing conclusions

• cause and effect

What type of questions is this?

• inferencing and drawing conclusions

• text features

• main idea and details

Which sentence does the author use to suggest that the caterpillar has experienced an important change?

• inferencing and drawing conclusions

• sensory language

• compare and contrast