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6th grade Unit 2 Vocabulary and Reading Strategies

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 2hrs 37mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which Reading Strategy allows you to create an image in your head as you read?

a)

Making Connections

b)

Visualizing

c)

Evaluating

d)

Inferring and/or Predicting

2.

Making educated guesses about what will happen next in the text.

a)

Summarizing and Synthesizing

b)

Making Predictions

c)

Asking Questions

d)

Making Connections

3.

Relating what you are reading to the world, yourself or other texts

a)

Making Predictions

b)

Making Connections

c)

Asking Questions

d)

Visualizing

4.

A sentence starter for making connections is

a)

This reminds me of

b)

I predict

c)

My opinion about this is

d)

I like how the author

5.
When you determine what you think will happen next in the text you __________. 
a)
Visualize
b)
Predict
c)
Connect
d)
Clarify
6.
Creating mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text is called __________. 
a)
Connect
b)
Visualize
c)
Clarify
d)
Evaluate
7.
When you use evidence to make a guess, you are using the reading strategy called ____.
a)
Connect
b)
Visualize
c)
Clarify
d)
Infer/Predict
8.
Continually ___________ the text will help you stay alert and interested in what you are reading. 
a)
Summarizing
b)
Questioning
c)
Clarifying
d)
Evaluating
9.

One technique we can practice to help us with connecting is to

a)

Look up words we are unsure of

b)

Make an assumption about what we read

c)

Connect what we read to our current lives

d)

Draw out what we picture

10.

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

11.

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

a)

Previewing

b)

Summarizing

c)

Inferring

d)

Predicting

12.

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

a)

Setting a purpose

b)

Predicting

c)

Inferring

d)

Questioning

13.

To entertain

To inform

To persuade

These are all examples of...

a)

Genres

b)

Author's purpose

c)

Novels

d)

Reading strategies

14.

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

15.

Who, what, when, where, why?

These are all examples of...

a)

Questions

b)

Genres

c)

Reading strategies

d)

Predictions

16.

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

a)

True

b)

False

17.

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

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Which of the following is a PRE-READING strategy?

a)

Previewing

b)

Evaluating

c)

Inferring

d)

Monitoring

19.

Air masses are a large body of air in the atmosphere that have properties from where they...

a)

were formed

b)

end up

20.

The principal __________________ the student to her office.

a)
nudged
b)
summoned
c)
growled
d)
stowed
21.

Felipe _______ her books in boxes.

a)
abruptly
b)
stowed
c)
snarled
d)

repaired

22.

The family decided to __________ their home before the bad weather arrive.

a)
tropical
b)
nudge
c)
stowed
d)
evacuate
23.

The _______ is built to hold back water.

a)
gesture
b)
inquired
c)
obvious
d)
levee
24.

The boy _______ his plans to his best friend. He told him but not everyone.

a)

concealed

b)

confided

c)

denied

d)

hided

25.

v. closed tightly

a)

let go

b)

clenched

c)

loosen

d)

release

26.

Which words can be use by the author to show you different text structure?

a)

first, then, because, however

b)

you, me, they

c)

love, like, pretty

d)

here, there, that

27.
How do I know my paraphrase is CORRECT? 
a)
I check that it has the same meaning as the first phrase.
b)
I check that I repeated the same words as the first phrase. 
28.

When paraphrasing first we need to:

a)

ask the author about the text

b)

ask another person what he/she thinks

c)

ask ourselves what the author is trying to say

29.

We ask question while we reading to . . . .

a)

to see if we want to read the book

b)

understand better what is happening in the text

c)

to see if we like the test

d)

to see how fast we read

30.

Vocabulary: What does the word identical mean in the

sentence below?

No two snowflakes are identical.

a)

exactly alike

b)

very unusual

c)

almost frozen

d)

simply elegant

31.

The author's use different text structure on a text to help readers understand how the ideas or events presented in the text are connected.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

Which of the following is a signal word or phrase that can point out a cause or effect?

a)

because of

b)

unless

c)

and

d)

in other news

33.

This text structure is used to tell about something that happened and what made it happen.

a)

Cause & Effect

b)

Compare & Contrast

c)

Spatial

d)

Sequence

34.

Why do you need reading strategies?

a)

To make reading more fun

b)

To help you understand what you are reading

c)

To make reading more difficult

35.

What types of questions do you ask when you are generating questions?

a)

Before

b)

During

c)

After

d)

All of the above

36.

What do you use to help visualize what is happening?

a)

Know-Wonder-Learn chart

b)

SWBST Chart

c)

Five Senses

d)

Before, during, and after questions

37.

(n.) necessary supplies, especially food

a)

alike

b)

provisions

c)

nudged

38.

(v.) tried to make someone feel better

a)

access

b)

huddled

c)

consoled

d)

frantic

39.

(n.) the operation, design, or building of airplanes

a)

captivity

b)

glaciers

c)

aviation

d)

dynamic

40.

(v.) caring for one's appearance

a)

realted

b)

dynamic

c)

impact

d)

grooming

41.

(n.) effect or influence

a)

habitats

b)

impact

c)

trudging

d)

wildlife

42.

(v.) to give up something

a)

access

b)

surrender

c)

trudging

d)

ushered

43.

(adj.) empty; not occupied

a)

vacant

b)

inflatable

c)

provisions

d)

compromise

44.

def. materials carried and deposited by water

a)

run off

b)

tributary

c)

sediment

d)

deposition