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OAE Reading Practice Test

Unofficial practice for both subtests of Ohio's OAE Reading assessment, 038 and 039, the test for the Reading endorsement.

"I have told you a million times to shut the gate," a character says. Which literary device is this?

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Subtest I: Reading assessment 8

  • A child reads aloud "The pony galloped across the feel," stops, looks back and rereads it as "field." What does this behavior show a teacher who is analyzing miscues? Wikipedia, "Miscue analysis". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0002
  • A district letter-sound test sets one score that shows mastery. A child who reaches it passes, however the rest of the class does. What is that set score called? Wikipedia, "Criterion-referenced test". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0001
  • A parent asks what a percentile rank of 40 on a reading test means. Which answer is right? Wikipedia, "Percentile rank". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0002
  • A report says a third grader read better than 62 percent of a national sample of third graders. Which kind of test places a student within a predefined population this way? Wikipedia, "Norm-referenced test". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0001
  • A teacher sits beside a child who reads a short book aloud. She marks each mistake, then figures the share of words the child got right and counts the errors the child fixed alone. Which assessment is this? Wikipedia, "Running record". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0001
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Subtest I: Reading assessment, continued

  • During a unit on vowel teams, a teacher gives a short check each Friday and changes the next week's small groups by the results. What kind of assessment is she using? Wikipedia, "Formative assessment". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0003
  • In a response to intervention model, which students usually qualify for Tier 2 intervention? Wikipedia, "Response to intervention". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0003
  • In miscue analysis, what is a miscue? Wikipedia, "Miscue analysis". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0002

Subtest I: Foundations of reading development 8

  • A four-year-old who used to say "went" now says "goed" and "foots." What does this change show about the child's language? Wikipedia, "Language acquisition". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0004
  • A fourth grader reads every word of a passage aloud correctly but cannot say what it was about, and has the same trouble when the passage is read to him. By the simple view of reading, which factor is weak? Wikipedia, "Simple view of reading". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0004
  • A school sets aside a daily period of sustained silent reading. By the program's proponents, which practice marks a successful model? Wikipedia, "Sustained silent reading". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0007
  • A teacher plans oral activities in this order: clapping the parts of "butterfly," splitting "cat" into /k/ and "at," then saying each sound of "cat." Which three levels of sound structure does the sequence follow? Wikipedia, "Phonological awareness". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0005
  • A teacher says, "Say map. Now change the /m/ to /t/. What word do you have?" Which phonemic awareness task is this? Wikipedia, "Phonemic awareness". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0006
  • How is phonemic awareness related to phonological awareness? Wikipedia, "Phonological awareness". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0006
  • Small groups of fifth graders meet twice a week to talk about a novel. For each meeting every student has a job, such as discussion leader or word finder. Which practice is this? Wikipedia, "Literature circle". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0007
  • With no print in sight, a kindergarten teacher asks, "Which word does not belong: cake, lake, moon?" Which level of phonological awareness does this task practice? Wikipedia, "Phonological awareness". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0005

Subtest I: Reading development 8

  • A first-grade teacher has taught the sounds for m, s, t, p and short a. Which kind of book is built so that its words match what has been taught so far? Wikipedia, "Decodable text". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0009
  • A kindergartner can name every letter but has not yet grasped that the letters in a written word stand for the sounds of the spoken word. Which understanding does she still need? Wikipedia, "Alphabetic principle". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0008
  • A teacher reads a page aloud twice: once in a flat voice and once with rising and falling pitch, stressed words and natural pacing. Which feature of fluent reading is she modeling? Wikipedia, "Prosody (linguistics)". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0010
  • A teacher sets the pairs cap and cape, kit and kite, hop and hope side by side. Which phonics pattern is the lesson about? Wikipedia, "Phonics". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0009
  • A teacher sorts word cards so that children see ch in "chin," th in "thick" and ph in "graph" each spelling a single sound. What is a letter pair of this kind called? Wikipedia, "Digraph (orthography)". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0009
  • A three-year-old holds a picture book right side up, turns its pages in order and "reads" the story from memory. Which term covers this knowledge of reading and writing before a child reads words? Wikipedia, "Emergent literacies". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0008
  • During shared reading of an enlarged text, a teacher touches under each word with a pointer as the class reads along. Which concepts about print does this show children? Wikipedia, "Shared reading". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0008
  • Why are beginning readers taught to know high-frequency sight words such as "the" and "said" as wholes? Wikipedia, "Sight word". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0010

Subtest II: Comprehension 8

  • A class fills in a KWL chart for a unit on the water cycle. Which column is completed after the reading? Wikipedia, "KWL table". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0012
  • A second grader reads that a character "spilled the beans" and searches the picture for beans. Which kind of expression should the teacher preteach before the next story? Wikipedia, "Idiom". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0011
  • Before a class reads an article on volcanoes, the teacher asks what students already know about mountains, heat and lava and charts their ideas. Which mental structure is she activating? Wikipedia, "Schema (psychology)". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0011
  • Halfway down a page a reader thinks, "That made no sense to me," slows down and rereads the paragraph. Which ability is the reader using? Wikipedia, "Metacognition". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0012
  • In groups of four, students take the teacher's role in turn: one asks a question about the paragraph, one clears up a confusing word, one sums it up and one says what may come next. Which method is this? Wikipedia, "Reciprocal teaching". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0012
  • Quantitative measures of how hard a text is to read grew from early research on reading ease. Which two features did that research find to be the best contributors? Wikipedia, "Readability". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0013
  • Reading fluency is described as a link between two things. Which two? Wikipedia, "Fluency". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0011
  • What sets independent reading apart from assigned reading in a classroom? Wikipedia, "Independent reading". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0013

Subtest II: Reading and literature 6

  • A short tale has a crow and a fox who speak and scheme like people, and it ends with a lesson about flattery. Which genre is it? Wikipedia, "Fable". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0014
  • A writer tells of the one year she spent teaching in a village school, from her own memories. How does this memoir differ in form from an autobiography? Wikipedia, "Memoir". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0014
  • After reading a novel about a girl who leaves home and learns to rely on herself, a teacher asks, "What is this story saying about growing up?" Which element is the class discussing? Wikipedia, "Theme (narrative)". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0016
  • "I have told you a million times to shut the gate," a character says. Which literary device is this? Wikipedia, "Hyperbole". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0015
  • In a ballad, the same two lines come back at the end of every stanza. What are those repeated lines called? Wikipedia, "Refrain". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0015
  • Students mark the moment in a story when tension is highest and the action turns toward its outcome. Which part of the plot have they found? Wikipedia, "Climax (narrative)". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0016

Subtest II: Reading across the curriculum 10

  • A passage reads, "Unlike her gregarious sister, Mia kept to herself at parties." Which kind of context clue helps a reader work out "gregarious"? Wikipedia, "Context clue". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0019
  • A social studies passage says only that the settlers "buried a third of their number before spring." A student concludes that the winter was deadly. Which level of comprehension did the student use? Wikipedia, "Reading comprehension". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0017
  • A student has ten minutes to decide which of three articles is worth reading closely, so she runs her eyes over each for clues to its main idea. Which strategy is she using? Wikipedia, "Speed reading". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0020
  • A student meets the word "erosion" in a science textbook and wants the meaning the book itself uses. Which text feature should she turn to? Wikipedia, "Glossary". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0018
  • A teacher breaks the word "replanted" into re-, plant and -ed. Which statement about these parts is correct? Wikipedia, "Morpheme". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0019
  • An online encyclopedia article lets a reader jump at once from a term to another page about it, in any order. Which organizational structure of informational text is this? Wikipedia, "Hypertext". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0020
  • In the Cornell note-taking system a page is divided into two columns. What goes in the narrow left column? Wikipedia, "Cornell Notes". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0018
  • Students are taught to look first at one sentence of each paragraph in a science chapter to find its main idea. In expository writing, which sentence is that, and where does it usually stand? Wikipedia, "Topic sentence". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0017
  • To build word consciousness, a class looks up where the word "salary" came from and how its meaning has changed over time. Which field of word study is this? Wikipedia, "Etymology". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0019
  • Which informational text is written to give the view of a publication's editors on an issue and so calls for the reader to tell opinion from fact? Wikipedia, "Editorial". Written to OAE Reading (038/039) framework, competency 0017

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the assessment frameworks for Ohio Assessments for Educators fields 038 and 039, Reading (Subtests I and II), read 2026-10-14 on the program's site (https://www.oh.nesinc.com/CONTENT/STUDYGUIDE/OH_SG_OBJ_038.htm; test page https://www.oh.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/OH038_TestPage.html): each subtest has 60 multiple-choice questions (80% of its score) and 2 constructed-response assignments (10% each) in 120 minutes, passing score 220. Subtest I: Reading Assessment (competencies 0001 to 0003, 34%), Foundations of Reading Development (0004 to 0007, 32%), Reading Development (0008 to 0010, 34%). Subtest II: Comprehension (0011 to 0013, 34%), Reading and Literature (0014 to 0016, 24%), Reading Across the Curriculum (0017 to 0020, 42%). The bank holds 24 questions for each subtest. Every fact was read on 2026-10-14 in the Wikipedia article the question names. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.

How it works

This free OAE Reading practice test has 48 questions of our own, 24 for each subtest of the Reading assessment (038 and 039). It is unofficial and not affiliated with the Ohio State Board of Education or Evaluation Systems, Pearson.

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OAE Reading Subtest I and II study guide: six domains

By the frameworks at oh.nesinc.com, read October 14, 2026, Subtest I weighs Reading Assessment 34%, Foundations of Reading Development 32% and Reading Development 34%. Subtest II weighs Comprehension 34%, Reading and Literature 24% and Reading Across the Curriculum 42%. That is 8, 8 and 8 questions here, then 8, 6 and 10.

Written assignments and the clock

Each real subtest sets 60 multiple-choice questions, 80% of its score, and two constructed-response assignments in 2 hours. No time is published for the multiple-choice part alone, so exam mode here runs without a clock.

A new test in fall 2027

The program's site says Reading (038/039) is scheduled to retire in fall 2027, when a revised Reading Endorsement (138) is expected, pending approval.

Questions and answers

Is this OAE Reading practice test free?

Yes, with no sign-up. Every question was written for this site from the two published frameworks, and each explanation names the public page its answer rests on. Nothing is taken from the real subtests or their sample questions.

Is OAE Reading (038/039) the same test as Foundations of Reading (190)?

No. The program lists Foundations of Reading (190) as a separate test, which its table requires for several teaching licenses. Reading (Subtests I and II) is the content assessment for the Reading (K–12) endorsement.

What is the passing score for the OAE Reading subtests?

220 on each subtest, where scores run from 100 to 300. Candidates must take and pass both subtests, and the multiple-choice score is combined with the scores on the written assignments.

Can I take both OAE Reading subtests on the same day?

At a test center, yes: one or both subtests at one appointment. With an online proctor only one subtest can be taken in a session, and no breaks are allowed.

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