Reading Comprehension Strategies Quiz

Grade 1 · English · Quiz

Show what you know about strategies that help you understand what you read.

Questions

1. What should a good reader do BEFORE reading a book?

   1. Skip to the last page
   2. Look at the pictures and title for clues
   3. Read only the first sentence
   4. Close the book
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   Answer: Look at the pictures and title for clues

   Looking at pictures and the title before reading gives helpful clues about what the story is about.

2. What is the correct order of a story?

   1. End, Middle, Beginning
   2. Middle, End, Beginning
   3. Beginning, Middle, End
   4. End, Beginning, Middle
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   Answer: Beginning, Middle, End

   Stories have a beginning (what happens first), a middle (what happens next), and an end (how it finishes).

3. When you connect a story to your own life, it helps you ______.

   1. Read faster
   2. Understand the story better
   3. Forget the story
   4. Skip hard words
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   Answer: Understand the story better

   Making connections to your own life helps you relate to characters and events, improving understanding.

4. Which question is one of the five W's?

   1. How tall?
   2. Which one?
   3. Where?
   4. How many?
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   Answer: Where?

   The five W's are Who, What, Where, When, and Why — all starting with W.

5. What does 'comprehension' mean?

   1. Reading very loudly
   2. Understanding what you read
   3. Writing a story
   4. Sounding out letters
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   Answer: Understanding what you read

   Comprehension means understanding the meaning of what you have read.

6. After reading a story, what is the best way to check your understanding?

   1. Retell it in your own words
   2. Read a different book
   3. Draw a picture of the cover
   4. Count the pages
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   Answer: Retell it in your own words

   Retelling the story in your own words shows you understood the main events.

7. Asking questions while you read helps you understand the story better.

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   Answer: True

   Asking questions keeps your brain active and focused on what is happening in the story.

8. A guess about what will happen next in a story is called a ______.

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   Answer: prediction

   A prediction is a guess about future events in a story based on clues already given.

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