OAE -Reading Subtest l and ll-Practice
Questions and Answers.
aesthetic reading - Answer reading for pleasure
analogy phonics - Answer teaching students to use parts of known words (such as onsets and
rimes) to read unfamiliar print words
analytic phonics - Answer teaching students to analyze letter-sound relations in previously
learned words in order to avoid pronouncing sounds in isolation
antonym - Answer two words with opposite meanings
automaticity - Answer automatic word recognition
blend - Answer Two letters together that make two sounds. For example, bl, pl, fl, st, tr
choral reading - Answer reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students- used
to develop oral reading fluency.
cloze passage - Answer used for vocabulary instruction, omitting every fifth word in a
passage--students use context clues to figure out the missing word
connecting reading and writing - Answer reading and writing naturally support acquisition of
one another--an effective way to teach reading is through writing, and an effective way to teach
writing is through reading
context clues - Answer words or phrases that help the reader understand another word of
phrase
Caldecott Medal - Answer award for the most distinguished artwork in a picture book
concepts of print - Answer awareness of directionality, book cover, title... (connected to Marie
Clay's work in Reading Recovery)
deep structure - Answer sets of skills and strategies that help readers and writers comprehend
literally to grasp a plot, comprehend deeply to prob ideas, and extend and apply their
,understanding--includes semantic, schematic and pragmatic system (think comprehension
strategies and Keene)
digraph - Answer two letters together that create a new sound. ex: sh, ph, ch, th
efficient and effective - Answer definition of a "proficient" reader
ELL/dialect miscues - Answer do not count on a miscue analysis
emergent literacy - Answer the reading and writing behaviors that precede and develop into
conventional literacy
echo reading - Answer students echo what the teacher reads. used for emergent readers to
build fluency and expression.
efferent reading - Answer reading for the main purpose of information, to gain meaning, from
Louise Rosenblatt
fluid grouping - Answer students grouped together briefly to work on a specific skill/concept
graphic cues - Answer cues from letters and letter patterns
Yetta Goodman - Answer mother of the miscue analysis and looking for the quality of miscues
John Guthrie - Answer focus on motivation in adolescent readers
guided reading - Answer teacher-directed reading groups
Iowa Basic Skills Test - Answer standardized test battery for elementary students
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) - Answer short passages with comprehension questions, often
used to gauge student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels.
Psycholinguistic - Answer The study of the relationships between linguistic behavior and
psychological processes, including the process of language acquisition
, KWL - Answer pre-reading activity for expository text that asks the reader what they KNOW,
what they WANT to know, and what they LEARNED.
Literature Circles - Answer Students read common texts and have discussions about the
shared reading to increase critical thinking and response to text. Often with set roles (discussion
director, mind image creator, question asker, etc.)
Lexile score - Answer A measure of a book's reading difficulty that makes difficulty comparable
from book to book, developed by MetaMetrics. Used for leveling texts.
Language Experience Approach - Answer Teacher writes down what the child says so that it is
easy for the child to read it back to them.
Qualitative Data - Answer data described by characteristics or properties
Morpheme - Answer Smallest linguistic unit that has meaning ex: in "walking", both "walk"
and "ing" are this unit
Newberry Award - Answer given for most distinguished children's literature every year
Onset - Answer Any sound or sounds that may occur before the vowel in a syllable ex: "M" in
"man"
Orthography - Answer The study of spelling
Phoneme - Answer the smallest meaning- signaling unit of sound in a language. may be a
letter or group of letters ex: s, th
Phonemic Awareness - Answer Awareness that there are separable sounds in words; the
ability to hear seperate phenomes in words
Quantitative Data - Answer data described in terms of numerical values
Qualities of Miscues - Answer do they fit with the context of the passage?
Readability - Answer quality of language that makes it easy to read and understand.
Questions and Answers.
aesthetic reading - Answer reading for pleasure
analogy phonics - Answer teaching students to use parts of known words (such as onsets and
rimes) to read unfamiliar print words
analytic phonics - Answer teaching students to analyze letter-sound relations in previously
learned words in order to avoid pronouncing sounds in isolation
antonym - Answer two words with opposite meanings
automaticity - Answer automatic word recognition
blend - Answer Two letters together that make two sounds. For example, bl, pl, fl, st, tr
choral reading - Answer reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students- used
to develop oral reading fluency.
cloze passage - Answer used for vocabulary instruction, omitting every fifth word in a
passage--students use context clues to figure out the missing word
connecting reading and writing - Answer reading and writing naturally support acquisition of
one another--an effective way to teach reading is through writing, and an effective way to teach
writing is through reading
context clues - Answer words or phrases that help the reader understand another word of
phrase
Caldecott Medal - Answer award for the most distinguished artwork in a picture book
concepts of print - Answer awareness of directionality, book cover, title... (connected to Marie
Clay's work in Reading Recovery)
deep structure - Answer sets of skills and strategies that help readers and writers comprehend
literally to grasp a plot, comprehend deeply to prob ideas, and extend and apply their
,understanding--includes semantic, schematic and pragmatic system (think comprehension
strategies and Keene)
digraph - Answer two letters together that create a new sound. ex: sh, ph, ch, th
efficient and effective - Answer definition of a "proficient" reader
ELL/dialect miscues - Answer do not count on a miscue analysis
emergent literacy - Answer the reading and writing behaviors that precede and develop into
conventional literacy
echo reading - Answer students echo what the teacher reads. used for emergent readers to
build fluency and expression.
efferent reading - Answer reading for the main purpose of information, to gain meaning, from
Louise Rosenblatt
fluid grouping - Answer students grouped together briefly to work on a specific skill/concept
graphic cues - Answer cues from letters and letter patterns
Yetta Goodman - Answer mother of the miscue analysis and looking for the quality of miscues
John Guthrie - Answer focus on motivation in adolescent readers
guided reading - Answer teacher-directed reading groups
Iowa Basic Skills Test - Answer standardized test battery for elementary students
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) - Answer short passages with comprehension questions, often
used to gauge student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels.
Psycholinguistic - Answer The study of the relationships between linguistic behavior and
psychological processes, including the process of language acquisition
, KWL - Answer pre-reading activity for expository text that asks the reader what they KNOW,
what they WANT to know, and what they LEARNED.
Literature Circles - Answer Students read common texts and have discussions about the
shared reading to increase critical thinking and response to text. Often with set roles (discussion
director, mind image creator, question asker, etc.)
Lexile score - Answer A measure of a book's reading difficulty that makes difficulty comparable
from book to book, developed by MetaMetrics. Used for leveling texts.
Language Experience Approach - Answer Teacher writes down what the child says so that it is
easy for the child to read it back to them.
Qualitative Data - Answer data described by characteristics or properties
Morpheme - Answer Smallest linguistic unit that has meaning ex: in "walking", both "walk"
and "ing" are this unit
Newberry Award - Answer given for most distinguished children's literature every year
Onset - Answer Any sound or sounds that may occur before the vowel in a syllable ex: "M" in
"man"
Orthography - Answer The study of spelling
Phoneme - Answer the smallest meaning- signaling unit of sound in a language. may be a
letter or group of letters ex: s, th
Phonemic Awareness - Answer Awareness that there are separable sounds in words; the
ability to hear seperate phenomes in words
Quantitative Data - Answer data described in terms of numerical values
Qualities of Miscues - Answer do they fit with the context of the passage?
Readability - Answer quality of language that makes it easy to read and understand.
