OGET Reading & Literacy Instruction Flashcards

Which reading strategy involves previewing headings, subheadings, and visuals before reading a text in detail?

Answer: SQ3R

SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review) begins with surveying headings and visuals to activate prior knowledge before detailed reading.

Phonemic awareness differs from phonics instruction in that phonemic awareness focuses on:

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.

A student reads a passage aloud with appropriate rate, accuracy, and expression. This demonstrates which component of reading?

Answer: Fluency

Reading fluency is characterized by accurate, appropriately paced, and expressive oral reading, serving as a bridge between decoding and comprehension.

Which instructional approach introduces high-frequency sight words as whole units to build automatic word recognition?

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.

When a teacher asks students to identify the author's purpose in a persuasive text, which comprehension skill is being assessed?

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.

A teacher notices a student consistently substitutes visually similar words while reading (e.g., 'house' for 'horse'). This likely indicates a weakness in:

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.