READING

Question 0

What forms can primary sources originate from?

Answer 0

Published or unpublished documents, recordings or artifacts.

Question 1

Define primary sources.

Answer 1

Firsthand records of events, theories, opinions, or actions.

Question 2

What is important to remember regarding the forms of primary sources?

Answer 2

They must be contemporary to the events, people or information that is at issue.

Question 3

List three challenges that come with primary sources.

Answer 3

Sometimes the only thing written about an event was written 100 years after the event; thus voiding it as a primary source.
Primary sources may not be accurate due to a person’s perception of the event.
Primary sources are often ambiguous and fragmentary, making them difficult to analyze.

Question 4

Can a primary source be found outside of artifacts and writings?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

What websites offer a non biased approach to presenting reliable sources?

Answer 5

Government, educational, organization sites

Question 6

What are facts?

Answer 6

Information based on real, provable events, or situations.

Question 7

What are opinions?

Answer 7

Opinions are beliefs based on personal judgments, rather than on indisputable facts.

Question 8

Define biases.

Answer 8

Biases are opinions or beliefs that affect a person’s ability to make fair, unclouded judgments or decisions.

Question 9

Define stereotypes.

Answer 9

Stereotypes are oversimplified opinions, that do not account for individual differences, about an entire group of people or things.

Question 10

What is critical reading?

Answer 10

A reading style in which the reader analyzes the text and finds the authors intentions rather than simply accepting the material as fact.

Question 11

What is the purpose of using text features?

Answer 11

To add meaning, change meaning, or add clarity.

Question 12

Name some examples of text features.

Answer 12

Text features include such formatting devices as bold or italicizes fonts, indented text, and bulleted or numbered lists.

Question 13

What is the purpose of a superscript that is a number?

Answer 13

The superscript references a footnote.

Question 14

What is the purpose of headings and subheadings?

Answer 14

Headings and subheadings organize text.

Question 15

What are headings?

Answer 15

Headings are titles that preface a section of text.

Question 16

What is a compass rose?

Answer 16

A compass rose is a symbol that indicates the cardinal directions. North, south, east, and west.

Question 17

What are subheadings?

Answer 17

Subheadings are headings that appear below other headings.

Question 18

Where are headings and subheadings often listed?

Answer 18

In a books table of contents along with the chapter listings.

Question 19

Headings typically appear in what type of documents?

Answer 19

Non-fiction documents

Question 20

In order to make text features useful what must always happen?

Answer 20

It must be applied consistently

Question 21

Where would you go to find an item list of the locations of all printed resources in a library?

Answer 21

A library catalog.

Question 22

How are library catalogs organized?

Answer 22

Each item corresponds to a book, is organized by topic and author, and is associated with the call number that directs the person to where it is in the library.

Question 23

What does the table of contents provide?

Answer 23

An overview of a document.

Question 24

What does the index provide?

Answer 24

The index provides a way of looking up various topics in the document.

Question 25

What does an index consist of?

Answer 25

An index consists of a list of names, topics, and ideas

Question 26

What type of documents have both a table of contents and an index?

Answer 26

Printed nonfiction documents.

Question 27

Does short, printed, nonfiction documents have a table of contents and an index?

Answer 27

It may have a table of contents but not an index.

Question 28

What is the major difference between a table of contents and an index?

Answer 28

Table of contents is good for learning the documents overall structure whereas the index is best used when the reader must find a reference to a very specific detail.

Question 29

What is the definition of text structure?

Answer 29

How a text is organized.

Question 30

What is the point of text structure?

Answer 30

Text structure makes text easier to read, and helps to emphasize the authors point.

Question 31

What would be a good way to present a sequence of ideas?

Answer 31

As a bulleted or numbered list.

Question 32

What can be used to enhance text structure?

Answer 32

Formatting

Question 33

What are some types of formatting that can be used to enhance text structure?

Answer 33

Bold words, new paragraph, and lists

Question 34

What type of text structure is a problem – solution structure?

Answer 34

Where a problem is presented and the solution is given.

Question 35

What is the comparison – contrast text structure?

Answer 35

Presents two different cases, usually with the intent of making the reader consider the differences or similarities between the two cases

Question 36

What type of text structure is sequence?

Answer 36

Sequence is a sequence of ideas that can be put in a bulleted or numbered list.

Question 37

What is cause – effect structure?

Answer 37

Cause – effect structure is where the author normally presents an action first, and then describes the effects that result from that action.

Question 38

What type of text structure is description?

Answer 38

Description tends to describe or characterize a person, thing, or idea.

Question 39

List the five types of text structure.

Answer 39

Sequence, problem – solution, cause – effect, comparison - contrast, description

Question 40

What does historical context mean?

Answer 40

Historical context means that the time and place in which the piece was written will influence the work in someway.

Question 41

Explain what the topic of a written work is.

Answer 41

The topic is the general subject matter covered by the work.

Question 42

What is the main idea of a written work?

Answer 42

The main idea is the works specific message. It is the reason the text was written.

Question 43

What do supporting details explain in a written work.

Answer 43

The main idea.

Question 44

What are themes in a written work?

Answer 44

Themes are subjects that a written work frequently touches upon.

Question 45

What does a topic sentence express?

Answer 45

the main point of a paragraph or of a larger document

Question 46

What is the purpose of a summary sentence?

Answer 46

To provide closure for a piece of text.

Question 47

What does the summary sentence usually do?

Answer 47

Reiterate the topic and may draw a conclusion that was not fully explained in the topic sentence.

Question 48

What does the topic sentence make?

Answer 48

The topic sentence makes a statement that the remaining sentences explain.

Question 49

What does a summary sentence provide?

Answer 49

Closure

Question 50

What is a logical conclusion?

Answer 50

A logical conclusion is an idea that follows from the facts or ideas presented in the text.

Question 51

When drawing a logical conclusion from a written text does the conclusion need to be factual or true?

Answer 51

No. It does not need to be factual or true it can be completely illogical when viewed on its own.

Question 52

Writing usually serves a specific purpose. What are the four purposes of writing?

Answer 52

Inform, persuade, entertain, express feelings

Question 53

What specific purpose are advertisements written for?

Answer 53

To persuade the reader