OGET Reading & Literacy Instruction Flashcards

Which federal legislation mandates that all students in grades 3–8 and once in high school be assessed annually in reading and math?

Answer: Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

ESSA (2015) requires annual statewide assessments in reading and mathematics for students in grades 3–8 and once in grades 10–12 to measure academic progress.

A student who can decode words accurately but reads very slowly and without expression likely needs support in:

Answer: Reading fluency

Accurate but slow, unexpressive reading indicates adequate decoding but insufficient automaticity and prosody, which are hallmarks of reading fluency.

Repeated reading is an evidence-based strategy primarily designed to improve:

Answer: Reading fluency

Repeated reading, in which students read the same short passage multiple times, is a well-researched strategy proven to build reading rate, accuracy, and prosody.

Which of the following best describes 'close reading' as an instructional practice?

Answer: Detailed, analytical reading of a short, complex text with multiple re-readings

Close reading involves careful, purposeful, and repeated reading of a short complex text to deeply analyze meaning, craft, and evidence, a practice emphasized by Common Core standards.

A teacher asks students to predict what will happen next in a story before turning the page. This activates which comprehension strategy?

Answer: Making inferences and predictions

Predicting activates prior knowledge and encourages active engagement with text by having students infer future events based on textual clues and background knowledge.

Tier 2 vocabulary words, as defined by Isabel Beck, are best described as:

Answer: High-frequency academic words useful across many contexts

Tier 2 words (e.g., 'analyze,' 'significant,' 'illustrate') are high-frequency academic words that appear across disciplines and are most productive for direct vocabulary instruction.