OAE- Primary Education Practice Test Flashcards
A student who uses appropriate dramatic expression while reading a ballad aloud is demonstrating skill in which of the following areas of reading fluency?
A. prosody
B. accuracy
C. rate
D. automaticity
A. prosody
A student who is able to rhyme the words philosophize, sunrise, and eyes has most likely developed an understanding of:
A. morphology
B. syntax
C. phonology
D. syllabication
C. phonology
During a conversation, a listener’s ability to comprehend a speaker is impeded by the speaker’s use of idiomatic expressions. To overcome this barrier to communication, the listener’s best strategy would be to:
A. politely ask the speaker to clarify the expressions in their statement.
B. observe the speaker’s gestures to guess the meaning of the expressions.
C. search for the expressions’ meanings after the conversation.
D. ask the speaker to repeat the expressions slowly and clearly.
A. politely ask the speaker to clarify the expressions in their statement.
Readers theatre is an effective activity for promoting students’ prosody primarily because readers theatre requires students to:
A. read independently outside the classroom.
B. produce an accurate summary of a dramatic narrative.
C. analyze how dialogue develops character.
D. use appropriate intonation, expression, and phrasing.
D. use appropriate intonation, expression, and phrasing.
An English language arts teacher wants to engage students in team-building activities to enhance their ability to work collaboratively during group assignments. Given the teacher’s goal, objectives for the team-building activities should primarily promote development of which of the following skills?
A. trust building
B. communication
C. problem solving
D. leadership
B. communication
Memoir would be an effective form of writing to us to:
A. evoke sensory impressions of a summer day.
B. narrate the experience of spending a year abroad.
C. illustrate differences between two languages.
D. explore the family dynamics at a holiday gathering.
B. narrate the experience of spending a year abroad.
Which of the following strategies would be most effective for a student to use to assess comprehension after reading a chapter in a history textbook?
A. explaining information presented in graphs and tables in the chapter.
B. asking and answering questions based on the chapter’s subheadings.
C. skimming the chapter for terms formatted in bold and defining the terms.
D. drawing connections between prior knowledge and the chapter’s content.
B. asking and answering questions based on the chapter’s subheadings.
A student draws abstract lines and shapes, groups them together, and pretends to read a story. The student has most likely achieved an understanding of which of the following literacy concepts?
A. words are composed of one or more letters.
B. one letter may represent various sounds.
C. two or more consecutive letters may represent a single sound.
D. uppercase and lowercase letters are used for different reasons.
A. words are composed of one or more letters.
Which of the following questions would provide a student with the most effective starting point for a personal essay that will examine a childhood memory?
A. when did I learn to ride a bicycle?
B. how many of my friends lived on the same block as me?
C. what was my favorite TV show?
D. why did my interest in astronomy begin at summer camp?
D. why did my interest in astronomy begin at summer camp?
Use the verbal remark to answer the question that follows.
“Did the weather forecaster just say what I think they said?”
The verbal remark best exemplifies which of the following types of questions?
A. rhetorical
B. open ended
C. leading
D. hypothetical
A. rhetorical
Read the poem below; then answer the question that follows.
Up here, with June, the sycamore throws
Across the window a whispering screen;
I shall miss the sycamore more, I suppose,
Than anything else on this earth that is out in green
But I mean to go through the door without fear,
Not caring much what happens here
When I’m away: -
How green the screen is across the panes
Or who goes laughing along the lanes
With my old lover all summer day.
Which of the following types of rhyme is used most in prominently in the poem?
A. eye rhyme
B. internal rhyme
C. stressed rhyme
D. identical rhyme
C. stressed rhyme
Use the excerpt below from a novel to answer the question that follows.
Daylight gradually faded away, and the street wore a more and more gloomy aspect. The rain poured, and how only an occasional carriage or footstep disturbed the sound of its steady pattering. Yet still Ellen sat with her face glued to the window as if spell-bound, gazing out at every dusky form that passed, as though it had some strange interest for her. At length, in the distance, light after light began to appear; presently Ellen could see the dim figure of the lamplighter crossing the street, from side to side, with his ladder; - then he drew near enough for her to watch him as he hooked his ladder on the lamp-irons, ran up and lit the lamp, then shouldered the ladder and marched off quick, the light glancing on his wet oil-skin hat, rough greatcoat and lantern, and on the pavement and iron railings. The veriest moth could not have followed the light with more perseverance than did Ellen’s eyes - till the lamplighter gradually disappeared from view, and the last lamp she could see was lit; and not till then did it occur to her that there was such a place as indoors.
In the excerpt, the author primarily uses the words glued, spell-bound, and perseverance for which of the following purposes?
A. to portray Ellen as a distracted daydreamer
B. to describe the lamplighter’s attention to his task
C. to create a mood of tension and suspense
D. to illustrate Ellen’s wish to expand her narrow world
D. to illustrate Ellen’s wish to expand her narrow world
Which of the following versions of a thesis statement from an analytical essay about Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Garden of Eden would be most effective for a student to use to establish a clear position?
A. In the Garden of Eden, the physical landscape parallels the emotional landscape of Catherine and David’s relationship, underscoring the university of interpersonal strife.
B. Hemingway’s description of the beautiful landscape of southern France in The Garden of Eden magically transports the reader to that part of the world.
C. Catherine and Davis, the main characters in The Garden of Eden, are a recently married couple whose relationship is troubled by unspoken complications and frustrations.
D. A daily routine of toast and eggs for breakfast and edifying swims is the honeymoon chosen by Catherine and David in Hemingway’s ironically titled The Garden of Eden.
A. In the Garden of Eden, the physical landscape parallels the emotional landscape of Catherine and David’s relationship, underscoring the university of interpersonal strife.
A sixth-grade English Language arts teacher wants to promote all students’ ability to analyze and discuss a complex text. To help achieve this goal, the teacher has struggling readers work with selected excerpts from the text. Which of the following additional strategies would be most effective for the teacher to use?
A. having students copy the selected excerpts into their reading journals
B. asking more proficient readers to read aloud the excerpts
C. ensuring the excerpts selected convey central ideas from the text
D. rewriting the excerpts using simpler language and syntax
C. ensuring the excerpts selected convey central ideas from the text
Fifth-grade students have expressed significant anxiety about participating in assigned oral presentations. To best help students alleviate their anxiety, the teacher should engage them in which of the following activities first?
A. talking with peers about presentation topics
B. learning several anxiety-reduction techniques
C. identifying specific fears that they have with public speaking
D. giving shortened versions of the presentations
C. identifying specific fears that they have with public speaking
Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate for helping first-grade students develop skills in adding two numbers within 20?
A. showing students how to regroup using the standard addition algorithm
B. leading students to discover the relationship between addition and multiplication
C. helping students recognize that a digit in the tens place is ten times a digit in the ones place
D. encouraging students to decompose one of the numbers so that it can make a ten with the other number
D. encouraging students to decompose one of the numbers so that it can make a ten with the other number
In the number 452.08, the value of the digit 4 is how many times greater than the value of the digit 8?
A. 2,000
B. 5,000
C. 20,000
D. 50,000
B. 5,000
Which of the following decimals is between 19/8 and 12/5 ?
A. 2.177
B. 2.295
C. 2.383
D. 2.469
C. 2.383
A student rewrites the expression 25 - (3+11) as
25 - 3 - 11. Which of the following number properties did the student use?
A. associative property
B. distributive property
C. commutative property
D. identity property
B. distributive property
A tax fare consists of a fixed cost of $2.50 plus $0.40 for each 1/5 of a mile traveled. If a passenger rides in the taxi for 3 miles and includes a 20% tip, how much does the passenger pay in full?
A. $5.16
B. $7.03
C. $9.70
D. $10.20
D. $10.20
Which of the following activities performed by a second-grade student best demonstrates that the student is using mathematical reasoning?
A. the student measures the length of an object by selecting and using an appropriate measurement tool.
B. the student uses a vertical subtraction method that requires borrowing.
C. the student makes a drawing to show that equal shares of identical wholes do not always have the same shape.
D. the student reads the time on an analog clock and writes it in the digital form.
C. the student makes a drawing to show that equal shares of identical wholes do not always have the same shape.
Second-grade students have been using a variety of methods to compare two three-digit numbers. Which of the following activities shows that students are able to use mathematical language to describe these relationships?
A. using drawings of base-ten blocks to model both numbers.
B. explaining how to compare both numbers on the number line.
C. looking at the place values of both numbers and then writing >, =, or, <
D. writing an original real-world problem that uses both numbers.
C. looking at the place values of both numbers and then writing >, =, or, <
A fifth-grade student is presented with the numbers 35.63, 36.53, and 35.6. Which of the following tasks would be the most appropriate for assessing the student’s ability to compare the decimal numbers?
A. graphing the numbers on a number line
B. explaining how to compare place value in the numbers
C. writing a number that is greater than all of the numbers
D. identifying the place values in each number
B. explaining how to compare place value in the numbers
