OAE: English Language Arts
Reading standards for informational text - CORRECT ANSWER-connect text to
background knowledge
make inferences
make interpretations
organize and differentiate between main ideas and details
locate evidence in a text
Paired reading strategy - CORRECT ANSWER-both read silently
one student summarizes
the other agrees or disagrees and explains
agree on main idea
take turns identifying details
next section, reverse roles
Text coding - CORRECT ANSWER-using "codes" on Post-its or in the margins for
active reading
Two-column notes - CORRECT ANSWER-one column for main ideas and second
column for details
Text features in informational texts - CORRECT ANSWER-title, appendix, captions,
charts and tables, diagrams, glossaries, graphs, index, maps, illustrations and
photographs, table of contents, timeline, footnotes, bullet points, sidebar, etc.
Aphorism - CORRECT ANSWER-state common beliefs and may rhyme
Ex. Early to bed and early to rise/Make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"
Syllogism - CORRECT ANSWER-deductive reasoning or a deceptive, very
sophisticated, or subtle argument
Deductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER-general to specific
Inductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER-specific to general
Diction - CORRECT ANSWER-author word choice establishing tone and effects
Chiasmus - CORRECT ANSWER-uses parallel clauses, the second revising the order
of the first
, Ex. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country
Anaphora - CORRECT ANSWER-regularly repeats a word or phrase at the beginnings
of consecutive clauses or phrases to add emphasis to an idea
Ex. We shall fight in the tenches. We shall fight on the oceans. We shall fight in the sky.
Complex question - CORRECT ANSWER-speaker or writer forms a question to
presume implicitly something not established as true
Appeal to nature - CORRECT ANSWER-assumes that anything natural or part of nature
is good, and/or that anything not natural is bad
Naturalistic fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER-one draws conclusions regarding values--in
other words, right and wrong or good and bad--based only on factual statements
argumentum ad antiquitatem and appeal to nature
Non sequitur - CORRECT ANSWER-"It does not follow."
Evaluating the author's argument in argumentative writing - CORRECT
ANSWER-identify the author's assumptions
identify supporting evidence
assess the relevance of that evidence
evaluate author's objectivity
consider completeness of author's argument
assess whether the argument is valid
Affixes - CORRECT ANSWER-morphemes added to words to create related but
different words
Ex. -ness, pre-
Pre- - CORRECT ANSWER-in advance
Dis- - CORRECT ANSWER-opposition
Dys- - CORRECT ANSWER-bad
-Ness - CORRECT ANSWER-changes an adjective into a noun
-Tion - CORRECT ANSWER-changes a verb into a noun
-Osis - CORRECT ANSWER-diseased/abnormal condition
Reading standards for informational text - CORRECT ANSWER-connect text to
background knowledge
make inferences
make interpretations
organize and differentiate between main ideas and details
locate evidence in a text
Paired reading strategy - CORRECT ANSWER-both read silently
one student summarizes
the other agrees or disagrees and explains
agree on main idea
take turns identifying details
next section, reverse roles
Text coding - CORRECT ANSWER-using "codes" on Post-its or in the margins for
active reading
Two-column notes - CORRECT ANSWER-one column for main ideas and second
column for details
Text features in informational texts - CORRECT ANSWER-title, appendix, captions,
charts and tables, diagrams, glossaries, graphs, index, maps, illustrations and
photographs, table of contents, timeline, footnotes, bullet points, sidebar, etc.
Aphorism - CORRECT ANSWER-state common beliefs and may rhyme
Ex. Early to bed and early to rise/Make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"
Syllogism - CORRECT ANSWER-deductive reasoning or a deceptive, very
sophisticated, or subtle argument
Deductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER-general to specific
Inductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER-specific to general
Diction - CORRECT ANSWER-author word choice establishing tone and effects
Chiasmus - CORRECT ANSWER-uses parallel clauses, the second revising the order
of the first
, Ex. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country
Anaphora - CORRECT ANSWER-regularly repeats a word or phrase at the beginnings
of consecutive clauses or phrases to add emphasis to an idea
Ex. We shall fight in the tenches. We shall fight on the oceans. We shall fight in the sky.
Complex question - CORRECT ANSWER-speaker or writer forms a question to
presume implicitly something not established as true
Appeal to nature - CORRECT ANSWER-assumes that anything natural or part of nature
is good, and/or that anything not natural is bad
Naturalistic fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER-one draws conclusions regarding values--in
other words, right and wrong or good and bad--based only on factual statements
argumentum ad antiquitatem and appeal to nature
Non sequitur - CORRECT ANSWER-"It does not follow."
Evaluating the author's argument in argumentative writing - CORRECT
ANSWER-identify the author's assumptions
identify supporting evidence
assess the relevance of that evidence
evaluate author's objectivity
consider completeness of author's argument
assess whether the argument is valid
Affixes - CORRECT ANSWER-morphemes added to words to create related but
different words
Ex. -ness, pre-
Pre- - CORRECT ANSWER-in advance
Dis- - CORRECT ANSWER-opposition
Dys- - CORRECT ANSWER-bad
-Ness - CORRECT ANSWER-changes an adjective into a noun
-Tion - CORRECT ANSWER-changes a verb into a noun
-Osis - CORRECT ANSWER-diseased/abnormal condition
