OGET OGET Reading & Literacy Instruction 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which reading strategy involves previewing headings, subheadings, and visuals before reading a text in detail?
- SQ3R (Correct answer)
- Choral reading
- Round-robin reading
- Echo reading
Correct answer: SQ3R
SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review) begins with surveying headings and visuals to activate prior knowledge before detailed reading.
Question 2: Phonemic awareness differs from phonics instruction in that phonemic awareness focuses on:
- Letter-sound correspondences in print
- Manipulating sounds in spoken words (Correct answer)
- Vocabulary development
- Reading fluency practice
Correct answer: Manipulating sounds in spoken words
Phonemic awareness is an oral/auditory skill involving the ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words, without reference to print.
Question 3: A student reads a passage aloud with appropriate rate, accuracy, and expression. This demonstrates which component of reading?
- Phonics
- Fluency (Correct answer)
- Phonemic awareness
- Comprehension monitoring
Correct answer: Fluency
Reading fluency is characterized by accurate, appropriately paced, and expressive oral reading, serving as a bridge between decoding and comprehension.
Question 4: Which instructional approach introduces high-frequency sight words as whole units to build automatic word recognition?
- Analytic phonics
- Synthetic phonics
- Whole word (look-say) method (Correct answer)
- Morphemic analysis
Correct answer: Whole word (look-say) method
The whole word or look-say method teaches students to recognize entire words by sight without sounding them out, building a bank of automatically recognized words.
Question 5: When a teacher asks students to identify the author's purpose in a persuasive text, which comprehension skill is being assessed?
- Literal recall
- Inferencing
- Critical analysis (Correct answer)
- Summarization
Correct answer: Critical analysis
Identifying author's purpose in persuasive writing requires critical analysis, as students must evaluate the author's intent and techniques beyond stated information.
Question 6: A teacher notices a student consistently substitutes visually similar words while reading (e.g., 'house' for 'horse'). This likely indicates a weakness in:
- Reading fluency
- Vocabulary knowledge
- Phonological processing (Correct answer)
- Background knowledge
Correct answer: Phonological processing
Substituting visually similar words suggests the student is relying on visual patterns rather than decoding letter-sound relationships, indicating weak phonological processing.
OGET OGET Reading & Literacy Instruction 1
Which reading strategy involves previewing headings, subheadings, and visuals before reading a text in detail?