OST ELA Grade 3 study guide
OST ELA Grade 3 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Ohio's State Test in English Language Arts, Grade 3 - commonly called the OST ELA Grade 3 or the Ohio Grade 3 ELA Test - is a state assessment for third graders in Ohio public schools. This independent study page is for families, tutors, and educators helping a child prepare; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. The test is multiple choice and is organized around four content domains: Reading Literature, Reading Informational Text, Writing, and Language. The domain weights used on this page are study-planning estimates, not figures published by the state. The OST ELA Grade 3 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,584 words.
01Reading: Literature
The Reading: Literature domain of the Grade 3 OST ELA measures how well you read and explain stories, fables, folktales, myths, and poems. Questions ask you to recount events, state a central message, explain characters, describe how parts of a text build on each other, and figure out words and illustrations.
434 words, about 2 min02Reading: Informational Text
The Reading: Informational Text domain of the Grade 3 OST ELA tests how you read short articles, biographies, how-to texts, and content-area passages. You will identify main ideas and key details, explain how ideas connect, use text features, interpret vocabulary, and compare two texts on the same topic.
413 words, about 2 min03Writing
The Writing domain of the Grade 3 OST ELA asks you to plan, draft, revise, and edit three kinds of writing: opinion, informative/explanatory, and narrative. Some questions ask you to choose the best opening, supporting sentence, linking word, or revision.
358 words, about 2 min04Language
The Language domain of the Grade 3 OST ELA covers grade 3 conventions and vocabulary. You will choose correct verb forms, pronouns, punctuation, capitalization, and word forms, and you will use context, affixes, and dictionary entries to figure out meaning.
379 words, about 2 min