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Reading Strategies

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do ACTIVE READERS do?

a)

Use reading strategies before they read

b)

Use reading strategies while they read

c)

Use reading strategies after they read

d)

All of the answers are correct

2.

When you look at the headings, pictures, and bold words of a text, you are...

a)

Previewing

b)

Summarizing

c)

Inferring

d)

Predicting

3.

Fiction texts are...

a)

Made up stories

b)

Texts that tell about real-life people, places, and things

4.

Nonfiction texts are...

a)

Made up stories

b)

Texts that tell about real-life people, places, and things

5.

Identifying a reason for reading the text is also known as...

a)

Setting a purpose

b)

Predicting

c)

Inferring

d)

Questioning

6.

Which of the following is a purpose for reading?

a)

To learn

b)

To solve problems

c)

To answer questions

d)

All answers are correct

7.

To entertain

To inform

To persuade

These are all examples of...

a)

Genres

b)

Author's purpose

c)

Novels

d)

Reading strategies

8.

When you think about what you already know about a topic before reading you are...

a)

Questioning

b)

Activating prior knowledge

c)

Summarizing

d)

Making a text connection

9.

Who, what, when, where, why?

These are all examples of...

a)

Questions

b)

Genres

c)

Reading strategies

d)

Predictions

10.

Using what you know from the text to make a guess about what will happen next is...

a)

Predicting

b)

Monitoring

c)

Infering

d)

Making a text connection

11.

What is metacognition?

a)

Thinking about your own thinking

b)

Questioning the text

c)

Using reading strategies

d)

Rereading the text

12.

True or false: Rereading is a way to self-monitor while reading

a)

True

b)

False

13.

True or false: Asking yourself questions while you read is NOT a way to self-monitor

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Creating mental pictures of information is...

a)

Monitoring

b)

Questioning

c)

Metacognition

d)

Visualizing

15.

When you relate prior experiences to the text you are making...

a)

A summary

b)

A synthesis

c)

A text connection

d)

A prediction

16.

Separating key points of information from unimportant information is...

a)

Synthesizing

b)

Summarizing

c)

Evaluating

d)

Reflecting

17.

Creating a concise statement of the most important parts of the passage is...

a)

Synthesizing

b)

Summarizing

c)

Evaluating

d)

Reflecting

18.

Which of the following is a POST reading strategy?

a)

Summarize

b)

Predict

c)

Infer

d)

Preview

19.

Examining the value, quality, or importance of what you read is...

a)

Evaluating

b)

Questioning

c)

Monitoring

d)

Summarizing

20.

Which of the following is a PRE-READING strategy?

a)

Previewing

b)

Evaluating

c)

Inferring

d)

Monitoring