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Stuff Every Reading Scout Should Know

Practice facts for the Reading merit badge. Not an official Scouting America credential.

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  1. What is the ability to read and write called?
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    Literacy. Literacy is the term for being able to read and write.

  2. Which skill means hearing and working with the small sounds in words?
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    Phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is noticing the small sound units in spoken words.

  3. Reading a book for fun is linked to growth in which school subjects?
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    Vocabulary and mathematics. Reading for pleasure is linked to progress in vocabulary and math during the teen years.

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  1. What is the ability to read and write called?
  2. Which skill means hearing and working with the small sounds in words?
  3. Reading a book for fun is linked to growth in which school subjects?
  4. About how fast do most adults read English?
  5. What does a proofreader mainly look for?
  6. What is rereading a book?
  7. What is analytical reading best suited for?
  8. What are audiobooks often seen as a continuation of?
  9. What kind of book teaches you to do something, like cooking or knot tying?
  10. What is a pictogram like a hazard symbol read by?
  11. What can you read about the world around you?
  12. What does the SQ3R method help a reader do?
  13. What does the R in SQ3R stand for?
  14. Which reading method presents words one at a time on a screen?
  15. What does exploratory reading help a reader do?
  16. What does subvocalization mean during silent reading?
  17. What does orthography describe?
  18. What does rapid automatized naming measure?
  19. Which element is required for proficient reading of alphabetic languages?
  20. What is braille an example of?
  21. What can sustained high volume reading be associated with?
  22. What can reading and writing help slow in seniors?
  23. What did the Supreme Court of Canada say learning to read is?
  24. What did UNESCO's Director-General say people must first be able to do?
  25. What does the right to read address?
  26. What does analytical reading involve suspending?
  27. What are the three dimensions of analytical reading?
  28. What is proofreading not considered?
  29. What did Nabokov say one can only do with a book?
  30. What does speed reading claim to increase?
  31. What do some neuroscientists say about reading 1,000 words per minute?
  32. What does chunking words help with in speed reading?
  33. What does skimming help a reader do?
  34. What does the RAP strategy belong to?
  35. What does the Five S method belong to?
  36. What does the RIDA strategy help with?
  37. What does reading in isolation help with?
  38. What does reading words in context improve?
  39. What does repeated exposure to print improve?
  40. What does orthographic development increase as a person learns to read?
  41. What orthographic convention do early readers learn?
  42. How do children become better readers according to the source?
  43. What does the source say about reading as a leisure activity?
  44. What did the 2022 US report say about adults reading a book in the past year?
  45. What percentage of US adults reported reading fiction or short stories?
  46. What percentage of US adults read more than 50 books per year?
  47. What did UNESCO estimate about people who cannot read and write?
  48. What did the International Literacy Association call the lack of basic literacy skills?
  49. What is a catalog covering several libraries called?
  50. What replaced card catalogs in most libraries by the late 20th century?
  51. What does OPAC stand for in libraries? 🔒
  52. Which catalog is sorted alphabetically by author names? 🔒
  53. What is a dictionary catalog? 🔒
  54. What does a shelf list catalog follow? 🔒
  55. What is authority control in cataloging? 🔒
  56. What is a uniform title used for? 🔒
  57. What does a call number identify? 🔒
  58. What is the earliest known library classification scheme? 🔒
  59. Which classification system was designed around the US Library of Congress collection? 🔒
  60. What is the Dewey Decimal Classification an example of? 🔒
  61. What is Iconclass a classification scheme for? 🔒
  62. What is the first true faceted classification system? 🔒
  63. What is the library professional who catalogs and classifies materials called? 🔒
  64. What are the two steps of library classification? 🔒
  65. Why can each work be placed in only one class? 🔒
  66. What do classification systems help users find? 🔒
  67. What does the notation 44 often mean in Dewey Decimal Classification? 🔒
  68. What does hospitality mean for a classification system? 🔒
  69. What does a library classification organize besides shelves? 🔒
  70. What is a subject catalog sorted by? 🔒
  71. What is a keyword catalog sorted by? 🔒
  72. What does a title catalog sort entries by? 🔒
  73. What does a title catalog usually ignore at the start of a title? 🔒
  74. What is the grammatical sort order based on? 🔒
  75. What does the identifying objective of a catalog help a person do? 🔒
  76. What does the collocating objective of a catalog show? 🔒
  77. What does the evaluating objective of a catalog help with? 🔒
  78. What four user tasks does FRBR define for a catalog? 🔒
  79. What can a catalog serve as for a library's contents? 🔒
  80. What does a catalog card contain? 🔒
  81. Where did the first card catalog appear around 1780? 🔒
  82. What were the first catalog cards sometimes made from? 🔒
  83. What size card did American libraries standardize on? 🔒
  84. What did Melvil Dewey help standardize for libraries? 🔒
  85. What did the Library Bureau sell to libraries? 🔒
  86. What did the call number on a card match? 🔒
  87. What did Ezra Abbot design to keep catalog cards in order? 🔒
  88. What does WorldCat hold records of? 🔒