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Reading Strategies

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 44mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
An inference is...
a)
Text evidence + what you know
b)
Retelling a text
c)
Making a guess without evidence
d)
Information written directly into the text.
2.
Which best describes a summary?
a)
a really long detailed piece of writing
b)
the entire text told in your own words
c)
a dumb thing that teachers make you write
d)
the main ideas and important details of a text
3.
Which type of text structure shows how two or more things are alike and different?
a)
Chronological
b)
Cause & Effect
c)
Problem & Solution
d)
Compare/Contrast
4.
When you determine what you think will happen next in the text you __________. 
a)
Visualize
b)
Predict
c)
Connect
d)
Clarify
5.
Creating mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text is called __________. 
a)
Connect
b)
Visualize
c)
Clarify
d)
Evaluate
6.
The main character is
a)
the best person or animal in the story
b)
my favorite person or animal in the story
c)
the most popular person or animal in the story
d)
the person or animal that the story is 'all about'
7.
The time and place of the story is called 
a)
the setting
b)
the dialogue
c)
the conflict
d)
the plot
8.
The order in which things happen refers to 
a)
the setting
b)
the sequence
c)
the conflict
d)
the plot
9.
Dialogue is
a)
what the teachers say to each other
b)
song lyrics
c)
what the characters say to each other
d)
prediction
10.
Details are 
a)
the description of an item in the story that helps us to visualize what is happening
b)
the description of something that is not in the story
c)
what characters say to each other
d)
what humans say to each other
11.
The big idea or lesson from a reading is called the ______________________.
a)
theme
b)
compare and contrast
c)
resource materials
d)
evidence
12.
What can you use to figure out what a character’s traits are?
a)
what the character says 
b)
what the character thinks 
c)
how other characters react to the character 
d)
all of the above
13.
What are traits? 
a)
the struggles in the plot of a story 
b)
descriptive adjectives that tell you what a character is like
c)
all of the events that happen in a story
d)
the places where a story happens
14.
Highlighting and annotating are techniques that can
a)
add to the reader's understanding
b)
make it difficult to understand main ideas
c)
express your artistic ability
d)
have no benefit at all
15.

What is Imagery?

a)

Use of particular words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds

b)

Use of three words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds

c)

Use of the words 'like' and 'as' to create visual representation of ideas in our minds

d)

Use of particular words that create meaning about the text

16.

What should you do as you read a passage?

a)

Think about your reading by asking questions, highlighting important parts, and jotting quick notes out to the side.

b)

Write down every single thought you have.

c)

Outline every paragraph with your pencil.

d)

Highlight all of the words that look important.

17.

What should you do when you come to a passage that is on an unfamiliar topic?

a)

This is the end. Just give up and start crying.

b)

Think negatively the whole time you read it.

c)

Focus and jot about your thinking more. Make connections to what you do know to understand!

d)

Avoid the passage by going to the bathroom many times.

18.

What should you do when you come to an unfamiliar word?

a)

Immediately ask for a dictionary and look it up.

b)

Skip past the word and don't do back to figure out the meaning.

c)

Stop reading completely and stare at the word until you know it.

d)

Use your context clues to read around the word and think of what would make sense based on what is happening in the text. Use a dictionary to check if you are not sure at all.

19.

When you get to the questions and answer choices, you should -

a)

Read the question and answer choices without stopping.

b)

Skim through the question and pick an answer.

c)

Read the question, analyze the key words to figure out what the question is asking, and jot what you think before looking at the answer choices.

d)

Spend a lot of time writing down all of your thoughts around the question.

20.

How do you determine the main idea of an informational text?

a)

Only look at the title.

b)

Use important evidence from all throughout the text to get the big idea of what the text was about.

c)

Jot some details down from what you read.

d)

Only look at the pictures and photographs given.

21.
If you start reading a book that seems too hard for you, you should...
a)
keep reading
b)
throw it across the room
c)
put it back and find a book that is just right
d)
complain that the book is boring
22.
Which one of these ways helps you understand a story?
a)
predicting what will happen next
b)
pausing after reading a part to ask yourself what just happened (giving yourself a comprehension check)
c)
retelling the BIG parts of the book 
d)
all of these choices