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Worksheetsincrease Your Reading Speed
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
1. Talking about a subject with classmates can be considered activating prior knowledge.
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2. Understanding key vocabulary makes no difference in reading speed.
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3. Reading quickly comes naturally to most people
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4. You must be willing to try to practice reading faster if you hope to increase your reading speed
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5. Motivation to read faster is not a factor in your reading speed
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It is important to remember everything you read, the first time you read it
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7. You will probably read a mystery novel much faster than a Science textbook.
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8. Using prereading strategies will help to increase your reading speed.
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9. To activate prior knowledge means to
A) Review vocabulary terms
B) Remember what you know about a topic
C) Go over past tests on the subject
D) None of these
10. Activities to activate prior knowledge include
Concept mapping
Brainstorming
Discussion
all of these
11. Which do you need more of in order to increase your reading speed?
A) The desire to improve
B)The willingness to try new techniques
C) The motivation to practice
D) All three are needed equally
12. Sarah often finds herself back at the beginning of a sentence, but isn’t sure why. Sarah might be a victim of
A) Needless or unconscious rereading
B) Word-by-word reading
C) Reading aloud
D) None of these
13. Terrence feels it takes him too long to get through a History chapter, though he is always sure to define vocabulary words, review the footnotes for each section and try to remember the author’s personal stories about the events in the book. What might be Terrence's problem?
A) Terrence has a fear of reading quickly
B) Read to the end
C) Terrence poorly evaluates what is important
D) None of these
14. Alejandra has come across a section in her physics textbook detailing the affect of wing span on an airplane’s cruising speed. How should she adjust her reading speed?
Increase her reading speed because she will probably need to review it again later
Increase her speed and focus on the visual ads
Decrease her speed to better understand the technical information
Decrease her speed and try to memorize the vocabulary as she reads
15. Carla has come across an example which has been used in her Ecology textbook three different times. How should Carla adjust her reading speed?
A) Increase her speed because she already knows the example
B) Increase her speed because the material is simple
C) Decrease her speed to review the information
D) Decrease her speed because the information is generalized
