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WorksheetsReading Strategies Quiz - 7B
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 11mins
What are the purposes an author may have for writing?
To express their thoughts and feelings
To make people feel bad
To persuade, inform, or entertain people
When is the best time to think about the author's intentions?
Before reading.
While reading.
After reading.
All of the above.
What is the main purpose of fairy tales?
To entertain and teach children the morals and values of their culture.
To scare children with stories of violence.
To ensure children stay away from magic.
To inform children about magic and talking animals.
What is a summary?
a re-telling of the story.
all the events of the story in detail.
a brief statement or account of the main points of a text.
When should you PAUSE to summarise?
Only after reading.
Before reading.
During reading (whenever possible) and afterwards (to remember and evaluate it)
You should think about the main idea:
Frequently during, and after reading (as you gather facts and details, putting them together)
Only after reading
Only before reading
What is the Main Idea of Rumpelstiltskin?
Don't trust your father, he will sell you off for fame.
Do not trust short sneaky men who take advantage of desperate young women - and be wary of striking a deal when it seems 'too good to be true'.
The queen is upset because of Rumpelstiltskin's appearance.
A goblin appears three times then gets angry and tears himself in half.
What is comparing and contrasting?
Finding the facts and details of a text
Finding the definition
Finding the true meaning of a fairytale
Finding the similarities and differences between two or more things in a text
Compare and Contrast: Pick the two correct statements from below:
Ashputtel and her sisters are treated equally by their parents.
Ashputtel and her sisters share the same goal: to go to the ball and marry the prince.
Ashputtel is more honest and clever than her sisters.
Ashputtel's stepsisters are honest.
What is the difference between a fact and an opinion?
Facts are based on personal ideas of things in a text; opinions are the truth.
Facts are the 'truth' in (or about) a text. Opinions are ideas/feelings we form about things, based on what we are told in texts.
Opinions and facts are the same thing.
Fact or opinion: The princess in The 'Frog Prince' kept her promise because her father told her to.
Opinion
Fact
Fact or opinion: The maiden in 'Rumpelstiltskin' is a fool to have trusted him.
Fact
Opinion
What is figurative language?
Poetry.
Non-literal language, to help readers visualise the text, E.g.Metaphors, similes, and personification.
Describing things as they literally are.
Which one is NOT an example of figurative language?
"Her beauty shone forth like the sun from behind the clouds.”
"Her heart soon turned towards him."
"Alas! Alas!... Sadly, Sadly..."
"Faithful John told the king to stay in the ship."
An inference is...
A conclusion/realisation based on the text evidence + what you know
Making a guess without evidence
Information written in the text
What can we infer from the frog's words (tick all correct answers):
"Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool in the greenwood shade."
That the princess has forgotten her promise to the frog.
That the frog is knocking on the door.
That the princess is looking at the frog.
That the door to the palace is closed.
BONUS QUESTION: What can we infer about the values of European cultures in the time of the Grimm's? Think about how a) step-families, and b) women, are portrayed in many Grimm's fairy tales. What do you think such cultures believed about remarrying and women?
When should you stop to interpret figurative language? (Tick 2!)
Whenever the meaning is unclear, or you can't picture it
When you can see the picture of it in your head, clearly
When you don't understand what the author wants you to see/think
When the meaning is clear
When and why do readers draw inferences?
When things are implied or suggested, but not said directly (you need to make links to understand what is meant).
To understand what's 'written between the lines' - to find the true meanings.
When you need to draw conclusions, - e.g. for an essay.
All of the above.
