Practice Answer Questions Systematically (1.7.4) - Reading Comprehension

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6 sample questions

Question 1.
What is skimming?
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Think about how you would read a news article.
Question 2.
What does a main idea represent?
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Look for the topic sentence.
3Question 3.
What is the purpose of skimming?
- To find specific details
- To get the main idea
- To analyze characters
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Think about what you do when you first glance at a text.
4Question 4.
True or False: Supporting details can stand alone as the main idea.
- True
- False
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Recall the definition of supporting details.
Question 5.
Read the following paragraph and identify the main idea and three supporting details.
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Look for the topic sentence and reasons that follow.
Question 6.
Given a fictional passage, categorize the questions into factual, inferential, and vocabulary types.
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Refer back to the definitions of each question type we discussed in class.

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