When reading an unfamiliar text, young readers tend to:
a. make more inferences than when they are reading a familiar text
b. make more errors in remembering the material than when they are reading a familiar text
c. remember more of the specific facts in the text than when they are reading a familiar text
d. none of the above
Ques. 2According to research by Glenberg et al. on priming readers' prior knowledge while reading:
a. students who read and reread the story recalled more of the major sentences than students who acted out the sentences with objects
b. students who acted out the sentences with objects recalled more of the major sentences than students who read and reread the story
c. there was no difference in recall of major sentences between students who acted out the sentences with objects and students who read and reread the story
d. there was no difference in recall of major sentences between students who mentally acted out the sentences with objects and students who read and reread the story
Ques. 3A good example for effective communication is choosing technical terminology when explaining how electricity works to your 6-year-old brother.
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Ques. 4Sometimes, the more clearly you communicate, the worse the problem becomes.
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Ques. 5Read a story and then select the best title. This is an example of testing:
a. the use of prior knowledge
b. the use of prose structure
c. the use of making inferencesd, the use of metacognitive knowledge
Ques. 6Some people are born communicators, while others are not.
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Ques. 7According to Brown and Smiley, when skilled readers are asked to rate the importance of information in a story, they tend to:
a. give higher ratings to important information than unimportant information
b. give equivalent ratings to important and unimportant information
c. refuse to give ratings to the importance of information
d. give the same ratings to important information as the ratings that third-graders gave
Ques. 8As long as you express yourself clearly you do not need to check on how your message is received.
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