English Composition Final Exam Review

What is the purpose of the 'Before Reading' stage in the Reading Process Stages?

• activate students’ prior knowledge, and set a purpose for reading

• test students’ memory after reading

• summarize the text in detail

• analyze the author’s writing style

What should students do during the 'During Reading' stage in the Reading Process Stages? Fill in the blank: During Reading, students ...

• make connections, monitor their understanding, generate questions, and stay focused

• read as quickly as possible without stopping

• skip difficult words and move on

• only focus on memorizing details

What is the main focus of the 'After Reading' stage in the Reading Process Stages? Fill in the blank: After Reading, strategies provide students an opportunity to

• summarize, question, reflect, discuss, and respond to text

• read the text for the first time

• identify the author's name and publication date

• memorize every word of the text

Which reading strategy involves recalling what you already know about a topic to help understand new information in a text?

• Activating

• Visualizing

• Inferring

• Evaluating

Which strategy involves bringing together what is spoken (written) in the text, what is unspoken (unwritten) in the text, and what is already known by the reader in order to extract and construct meaning from the text?

• Inferring

• Summarizing

• Scanning

• Skimming

Which strategy is about thinking about how and what one is reading, both during and after the act of reading, for purposes of determining if one is comprehending the text combined with the ability to clarify and fix up any mix-ups?

• Monitoring/Clarifying

• Predicting

• Summarizing

• Visualizing

What is the name of the strategy that involves engaging in learning dialogues with text (authors), peers, and teachers through self-questioning, question generation, and question-answering?

• Questioning

• Summarizing

• Predicting

• Visualizing

Restating the meaning of the text in one's own words and concisely summarizing a work or passage using key points is called what?

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

• Analyzing

• Criticizing

Which active reading strategy involves highlighting, underlining, or writing notes on the text itself?

• Annotate your text

• Skim the text quickly

• Read aloud to a friend

• Summarize after reading

Making outlines, flow charts, or diagrams that help you to map and understand ideas visually is an example of which active reading strategy?

• Make outlines, flow charts, or diagrams that help you to map and understand ideas visually.

• Skim the text quickly to get the general idea.

• Read aloud to improve pronunciation.

• Memorize every word without taking notes.