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WorksheetsThe 2nd Assessment - English R & W
Total questions: 90
Worksheet time: 1hrs 28mins
Scanning is used to scan something and find specific information (keywords), for example, name, telephone number, date, number, etc.
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When you gather information about a book by examining it's over, you are previewing.
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Then you can make guesses about what is in the letter. When you make guesses like this, you do skimming.
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Reading isn't a thinking process.
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Before reading, they don't use prior knowledge to think about the topic.
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Skimming is scanning a text to get a general idea of meaning.
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Whenever you are solving Reading Comprehension questions, ensure adequate comprehension of the passage.
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Scanning is one of the ways to predict unfamiliar words in the text.
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We make mistakes when answering because we do not pay sufficient attention to the exact nature of the question.
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An active process of understanding is called reading.
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The searching keyword is one example of scanning.
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Read the title, and headings/sub-headings, look at the visuals, scan for special terms/words, and skim the review questions.
Those are examples of how to do a preview.
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Summarizing isn't one of the reading comprehension skills.
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Self-questioning isn't essential in reading comprehension.
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Reading strategy is essential in reading comprehension.
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Skimming and scanning are two very different strategies for speed reading.
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Scanning is a fast reading technique that is used to obtain the gist of a piece of text (i.e. to identify the main ideas in the text quickly).
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Skimming is a reading technique to be used to find specific information quickly.
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If you read magazines, you can not use a skimming strategy.
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You can use a scanning strategy if you read business and travel brochures.
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If you want to know about the main ideas, you can use skimming.
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A searching keyword is not an example of scanning.
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You have to read and understand every word when you do skimming.
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Reading a conference guide is one example of a scanning strategy.
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Start scanning the text by allowing your eyes (or finger) to move quickly over a page.
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Scanning is used to read a graph.
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Skimming is used to waste time.
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Scanning doesn't need concentration.
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In scanning, you have a question in your mind and read a passage only to find the answer, ignoring unrelated information.
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Skimming is more critical than scanning.
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College readiness requires advanced skills.
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One of the steps to improve your reading comprehension is previewing the material before reading.
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According to John Briggs, "Students know about topic sentences and main ideas, understand the questions the writer is addressing, and have enough experience participating in academic conversations."
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Being a good role model, the teacher can be one of the ways to help the students prepare for college reading.
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Knowing your learning style can help you to improve your reading comprehension.
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Surveying the text doesn't help you learn the material more efficiently.
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If you encounter an unfamiliar word vital to understanding the text, you can use a dictionary or computer while reading.
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Paraphrasing is reading the title of the text.
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When you ask questions, your reading comprehension improves because you can connect with the text.
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You can improve your focus and concentration if you read in the best place environment.
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A highlighter in reading isn't used to capture critical information to pay attention to essential terms.
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Summarizing won't help you pull out the main ideas and take better notes.
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Mind mapping is one of the ways to take notes in reading.
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Reading can be difficult for college students and gets easier with practice.
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If you still don't understand or remember what you just read, reread it more carefully.
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Descriptive text is a text that describes a person, place, or thing.
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Narrative text tells a story that has a series of chronologically connected events. Its social function is to tell stories of past events and entertain readers.
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Coda is the opening paragraph in the narrative text where the story's characters are introduced and informed of the time and the place.
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We can get the lesson story to form a narrative text in the orientation part.
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A procedure text is a text which presents information about something as it is. It is a result of systematic observation and analysis.
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News Item text is a text that relates to the news and informs readers about events of the day that are considered newsworthy or essential.
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The resource of information (source) contains comments by participants in, witnesses and authorities' experts on the event.
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Hortatory Exposition text is a text that tries to provide a comprehensive explanation of a problem by displaying the opinions that support it carefully.
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The thesis contains the writer's opinion about something. It also introduces topics and indicates the writer's position.
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Reiteration means restating the writer's point of view or strengthening the thesis.
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Analytical exposition text is a type of English text which represents the author's attempt to influence the reader to do something or act in a particular way.
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Analytical exposition text is a text which tells processes relating to the forming of natural, social, scientific, and cultural phenomena.
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Identification means stating a series of steps that explain the phenomena.
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General classification means identifying the phenomenon to be described. It contains the introduction of a person, place, animal, or object that will be described.
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Sequenced explanation means classifying the general aspect of things; animals, public places, plants, etc.
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When we use evidence to guess, we use the reading strategy called ____.
Connect
Visualize
Clarify
Infer/Predict
When we determine what we think will happen next in the text, we____.
Visualize
Predict
Connect
Clarify
Creating mental images of the text's settings, characters, and events is called ____.
Connect
Visualize
Clarify
Evaluate
Think about what we already know about the text. Find ways to relate the text to ourselves, other texts, and the world around us, is called____
Predict
Visualize
Clarify
Connect
When we come across a word we don't know, we should____
just keep reading and not worry about what the word means
use the context clues in the text to help me figure out what the word means
skip over the word and forget about it
stop reading the book
What does it mean to visualize as we read?
Make a drawing
See what's happening in your mind
watch the movie version
read aloud
When using this Reading Strategy, we, as the reader, are determining what we think will happen in the text. it is called______
Visualizing
Predicting
Inferring
Connecting
When using this Reading Strategy, we, the reader, create mental images of the text's settings, characters, and events. It is called____
Questioning
Identifying
Visualizing
Evaluating
When using this Reading Strategy, we, as the reader, are asking ourselves questions to see if the text makes sense. It is called_____
Inferring
Predicting
Make-believing
Questioning
What does it mean to make predictions?
to think
to think about what may happen next based on prior knowledge.
Ask when, where, why, how, who or other questions
to ask and visualize
When we make a connection, we_____
try to understand the passage.
see a picture in my head.
form a link between what is happening in the text.
ask the audience.
Asking when, where, why, who, how and other questions to clarify the text are known as____
drawing conclusions
summarizing
inferring
questioning
One of the first steps in annotating is______
Marking unknown vocabulary
Writing about the author
Looking for other books the author wrote
Listening to the book
If we don't know a vocabulary word and the definition is confusing, we can look for these words that mean the same thing, it is called_____
Antonyms
Pronouns
Verbs
Synonyms
When annotating, we should look for which of the following____
Things you question
Things that stand out / are important
Vocabulary
All answers are correct
Annotating is another word for_____
Vocabulary
Note taking
Questioning
Writing
Making pictures in your mind as you read to help you "see" what you are reading, is called_____
Determining what's important
Visualizing
Making predictions
Making an inference
Making educated guesses about what will happen next in the text is called_____
Summarizing and Synthesizing
Making Predictions
Asking Questions
Making Connections
Identifying main ideas and differentiating them from supporting details. is called_____
Evaluating
Making Inferences
Visualizing
Determining What's Important
Briefly explaining the beginning, middle and end of the text, is called_____
Asking Questions
Summaring and Synthesizing
Making Connections
Evaluating
Relating what you are reading to the world, yourself or other texts, is called_____
Making Predictions
Making Connections
Asking Questions
Visualizing
One technique we can practice to help us with visualizing is to____
Look up words we are unsure of
Make an assumption about what we read
Connect what we read to our lives
Draw out what we picture
One technique we can practice to help us with connecting is to_____
Look up words we are unsure of
Make an assumption about what we read
Connect what we read to our current lives
Draw out what we picture
This strategy involves asking good questions to keep us more mentally engaged with what we read, which is called_____
Visualizing
Connecting
Inferring
Questioning
This strategy involves taking clues from the text to think ahead or make a judgement, which is called_____
Visualizing
Connecting
Inferring
Questioning
One technique we can practice to help us determine importance is_____
Look up words we are unsure of
Skim through text for details about the plot
Ask questions about the author's purpose
Make an educated guess about a character based off the text
This strategy involves learning the definitions of words we don't already know, which is called_____
Determining importance
Synthesizing
Inferring
Building vocabulary
A child is sleeping upstairs quietly when suddenly, there is a loud "THUMP!" We can infer that:_____
The child continued to sleep calmly
The child fell out of bed
The child was eating a bag of chips
The child was reading a book
When we read the title and any headings, read captions, and look at any pictures before reading, it is called_____
We are previewing the text.
We are viewing the text.
We are reviewing the text.
We are asking the text.
Telling or writing only main ideas, is called____
plan
ask questions
monitor
summarize
