Ohio Assessments for Educators OAE (Reading) 5

Question 1

Which of these best measures reading comprehension rather than decoding?

Accepted Answer

Answering questions about a passage's main idea

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Reading a list of nonsense words

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Naming letters quickly

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Blending isolated phonemes

Question 2

A teacher groups students by shared skill needs and adjusts instruction accordingly. This practice is:

Accepted Answer

Differentiated instruction

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Whole-class lecture

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Standardized testing

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Round-robin reading

Question 3

The suffix '-less' in 'hopeless' indicates:

Accepted Answer

Without

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Full of

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In the past

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One who does

Question 4

Which strategy best helps a reader who decodes accurately but forgets what she read?

Accepted Answer

Pausing to summarize after each paragraph

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Reading faster

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Skipping unknown words

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Reading only the title

Question 5

A teacher assessing 'concepts of print' would check whether a student knows to:

Accepted Answer

Track words left to right and top to bottom

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Define abstract vocabulary

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Infer a character's motive

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Identify the story's theme

Question 6

Which text structure uses signal words like 'first,' 'next,' and 'finally'?

Accepted Answer

Sequence / chronological order

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Compare and contrast

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Problem and solution

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Description

Question 7

To build vocabulary depth, the most effective approach is to have students:

Accepted Answer

Use new words in multiple meaningful contexts

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Memorize dictionary definitions in isolation

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Copy words repeatedly

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Alphabetize word lists