WorksheetsReading comprehension strategies and skills.
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
11. To increase reading comprehension and retention for learners, it is best to:
A) give very short passages
B) read aloud for the students
C) provide a text with very simple language
D) identify the purpose of reading the chosen text
12. Composing a concise statement on the main idea of a passage is a reading strategy referred to as:
A) analyzing
B) evaluating
C) structuring
D)Summarizing
13-A teacher gave his/ her students the following sentence:
" I went to the …………. last night and bought some clothes ".
The previous sentence is used to test the students' understanding of ………
A) vocabulary and context
B) L2 speaking
D) L2 reading
14. An intensive reading text should be:
A) long and easy
B) long and detailed
C) short and simple
D) short and complicated
15. Silent reading techniques are used for rapid reading comprehension. However, such
techniques should not be taught at ……level.
A) Advanced
B) Beginning
C) Intermediate
D) Upper intermediate
16. Which of the following steps comes at the end of the process of teaching fluency in reading?
A) Collaborative learning
B) Independent practice
C) Direct instruction
D) modelled practice
17-Teachers use ……………. reading so L2 learners can focus on linguistic and semantic details of a text.
A) referential
B) extensive
C) intensive
D) critical
18- A cloze test is generally used to test the……………. skill.
A) reading
B) writing
C) listening
D) speaking
19-When we ask students to read a text, evaluate it, and react to it, we are teaching ……….... .
A) thorough reading
B) critical reading
C) scanning
D) skimming
20- A teacher asks the students to match headlines with news stories. What is the purpose of this pre-reading activity?
A) Focus on main idea
B) Focus on details
C) Guess vocabulary from context
D) Enrich sentence structure
