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OAE Foundations of Reading Exam Study
Guide.
Concepts About Print (CAP) - answer✔Assesses the literacy knowledge of kindergarten children
and early first graders
Skills Assessed: Book handling, directionality, word-by-word matching, and locating words in
Diagnostic Assessment - answer✔Assessment designed to determine and diagnose a student's
strengths, weaknesses, knowledge and skills
Formative Assessment - answer✔Assessment that provides teachers information about
students thinking
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) - answer✔Survey designed to help a teacher determine a
student's reading instructional needs
Leveled Text - answer✔Levels of difficulty from the easy books that an emergent reader might
begin with to the longer, complex books that advanced readers would need
Miscue Analysis - answer✔A way of closely observing recording and analyzing oral reading
behaviors to assess how the student is using specific reading strategies
Portfolio - answer✔A collection of student's work
Progress Monitoring - answer✔Observing or testing a student's progress and evaluating the
instructional techniques. Goals are established and measured on a regular basis and instruction
is adjusted as needed.
Reading Miscue Inventory - answer✔(Running Records) a teacher records a child's reading
behavior, noting miscues, self-corrections, substitutions, omissions, etc. Often used to
determine advanced, instructional and frustration level of texts.
Reliability - answer✔The dependability of a test, referring to its consistency of outcomes
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