SHS English Language · Year 1
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Reading comprehension strategies and question types.
15 questions in this topic: 6 recall, 7 applying skills and concepts, 1 strategic thinking and 1 extended thinking. Every one carries a written explanation.
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- Question 1Skills & concepts
A reader keeps track of their own understanding while reading and rereads a confusing section to clarify it. This illustrates which comprehension strategy?
- aMonitoring
- bVisualising
- cMaking connections
- dPreviewing
- Question 2Recall
A fictional text, as defined in this section, is one that is
- anot factual, but based on the imagination or creativity of the writer
- bproduced strictly based on facts and real events
- calways written using only the simple present tense
- dalways structured as a letter addressed to a friend
- Question 3Recall
Prediction, as described in this section, is best defined as
- ausing clues from a text and prior knowledge to anticipate what will happen next
- bcondensing a long text into a brief, shortened summary
- creducing an idea to its literal, non-figurative meaning
- dkeeping track of one's own understanding while reading
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