EDEC 423 Praxis 2

A teacher reads aloud Where the Wild Things Are, a picture storybook in which a boy named Max encounters wild monsters that are vividly portrayed. The teacher then shows the students picture cards depicting scenes from the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Which of the following concepts of literary structure is the teacher helping students understand?

• Plot sequence

• Point of view

• Character development

• Setting

A teacher provides support for small, flexible groups of beginning readers. As students read a text or a book that is unfamiliar to them, the teacher works with the students to teach them how to use a variety of reading strategies. Which of the following reading approaches is described?

• Direct instruction

• Literature circle

• Guided reading

• Read aloud

Which of the following criteria is the most important when assessing reading comprehension?

• Ability to identify the main idea

• Ability to decode new words

• Ability to spell inventively

• Ability to recognize rhyming patterns

Which of the following words cannot be decoded through knowledge of letter-sound relationships?

• Flight

• Said

• Things

• Lamp

A second-grade teacher has each student select a card at random that is marked with a three-digit number. Students then model their numbers with base ten blocks on a place value mat. Which of the following whole number concepts does the lesson best reinforce?

• Comparing quantities

• Describing quantities

• Ordering quantities

• Decomposing quantities

The gasoline tank in a car holds 15 gallons when full. If there are 7 gallons of gasoline in the tank, how many gallons of gasoline are needed to fill the tank? Which of the following is most appropriate to use to correctly answer the question shown?

• Multiplication

• Subtraction

• Estimation

• Division

. Which of the following is an example of a chemical change?

• Mixing vinegar with baking soda

• Tearing a piece of paper

• Filling a balloon with air

• Melting ice

A physical education teacher has second-grade students make twisted, narrow, wide, and round shapes. Which of the following are students working on?

• Space Awareness

• Body Awareness

• Visual Development

• Auditory Awareness

Which of the following statements describes an emergent reader?

• The student recognizes high-frequency words and recognizes fiction and non-fiction text.

• The student reads with appropriate tone of voice and selects books of interest.

• The student is able to decode words when reading below grade level texts but has difficulty understanding the meaning of text or decoding complex words.

• The student knows some of the letters of the alphabet and recognizes common words in the community.

Which of the following describes the process of sublimation?

• A pure solid changes directly into a gas.

• A pure liquid changes directly into a gas.

• The atoms in a material combine with pure oxygen.

• Pure water breaks into charged ions of hydrogen and hydroxide.