Which of the following is the best way for a teacher to assess student's phonemic awareness?

Say the word "lamp" and ask students to break it into individual sounds.

Ask students to identify the letter at the beginning of the word "desk"

Distribute the letter cards "b", "a" and "t" and ask students to order the letters to create a word.

Display the written word "cat" and ask students to sound it out as they tap each letter.

A 5th grade class studies the American Revolution. The teacher wants students to understand the differences in perceptions between the colonists and the British in regards to their actions in the Boston Tea Party as protest or rebellion. Which student activities is most effective in understanding the differences in perceptions?

Creating a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the concepts of protest and rebellion.

Listing examples of significant protests and rebellion during other historical time periods.

Writing a letter persuading a friend to view the Boston Tea Party as an act of legitimate protest.

Reading a 1st-person account told from the perspective of someone who participated in the Boston Tea Party.

A teacher notes that a student is consistently not meeting grade level performance standards. Which of the following should be the classroom teacher's 1st step?

Adjust instructional techniques to meet the student's unique learning needs

Continue to assess and monitor the student's academic progress on a regular basis

Refer the student for testing to determine if he or she qualifies for special services

Identify specific learning goals based on the student's current performance levels.

When preparing to do a close reading of a complex text with students, it is important to know which of the following?

Students should read the text multiple times and focus on a different outcome during each reading.

Students should be focused on trying to accurately summarize the text and identify key story elements.

The teacher's role is to guide students through the text and interpret the meaning of challenging text for students.

The teacher's role is to plan extensive pre-reading activities and elicit students' prior knowledge before students read the text.

Which of the following best reflects research about teaching alphabetic principle to young students?

Teaching students continuous vowel and consonant sounds before stop (or clipped) sounds

Teaching students the letters and their corresponding sounds in alphabetical order

Introducing students to the long vowel sounds before introducing them to the short vowel sounds

Introducing students to similar sounding or looking letters in close succession

A teacher listens to Zane, a 4th grade student, read an unfamiliar passage aloud for 1 minute. He read at an average rate with poor expression. He accurately decoded 98% of the words. Based on results which of the teacher actions will best improve Zane's reading ability.

Providing explicit instruction and modeling of prosodic reading of text.

Building prior knowledge of the passage before the student's oral reading.

Encouraging the student to engage in repeated readings of the same text.

Having the student listen to a recording of the oral reading to self-assess his performance.

A class prepares to read a science text about an unfamiliar, complex process. The best way the teacher can support students' successful reading of the text is to....

assign a small portion of text, an then pause for discussion and student questions before moving on

guide the students to continue reading when they come to an unfamiliar word in order to search for context clues

make dictionaries available to students so that they can look up the meanings of challenging vocabulary before reading each section of the text

ask each student to do a quick write about the process using their background knowledge, an then ask them to share their writing with a partner

Which of the following best reflects research about teaching alphabetic principle to young students?

Teaching students continuous vowel and consonant sounds before stop (or clipped) sounds

Teaching students the letters and their corresponding sounds in alphabetical order

Introducing students to the long vowel sounds before introducing them to the short vowel sounds

Introducing students to similar sounding or looking letters in close succession

A group of students have an accuracy rate of 94% and above on a recent reading assessment. Which of the following activities will best help improve the development of the students' reading skills?

Participating in lessons focused on specific problematic phonics patterns

Continuing to read books at the current level. because students are succeeding

Reading familiar books with a partner of a lower reading level

Listening independently to audiobooks from the next level

Which of the following is most beneficial in developing students's writing abilities?

Providing explicit writing instruction on how an author communicates ideas through elements such as word choice, text structure, and point of view

Improving students' skill in applying standard English conventions in their own writing by focusing on an author's accuracy in written expression

Allowing students to self-assess their writing pieces by using writing models to create rubrics that clearly describe elements of effective writing

Encouraging students to progress through the steps in the writing process fluently and quickly by allowing them to use models that demonstrate the relationship between writing and oral language

As a part of a social studies unit on the American Revolution, a 6th grade teacher plans to prepare students to read a short historical nonfiction novel about the Boston Tea Party. Which of the following preceding strategies will best assist the teacher in building students' background knowledge and improving their general understanding of the topic?

Having students visit approved Web sites before reading the text to view video clips and primary documents related to the topic

Providing time for students to skim the text and create a list of new vocabulary words and ideas that the author discusses

Encouraging students to look at the illustrations in the text and discuss with a partner what they see in the images

Presenting a list of statements about the topic and having students indicate whether they agree or disagree with each one

Before introducing a nonfiction text on volcanoes, a teacher asks students to record one fact that they already know about volcanoes on an adhesive tab. The teacher and students create a poster with the tabs, and the class then discusses the facts on the tabs. Which of the following best describes the primary purpose of the activity?

Modeling comprehension strategies

A team of 5th grade teachers collaboratively provide explicit instruction to support the development of student's listening skills. The teachers select a series of videos and recorded books to build students' background knowledge, vocabulary, understanding of text structures, and inferencing abilities.

The influence of listening comprehension on reading comprehension increases over time, since both require the application of similar language processes.

Content presented orally is of greater interest to and easier for students to process than reading a text that requires proficient word-recognition skills.

As students develop more advanced literacy skills over the elementary years, the influence of listening comprehension on reading comprehension lessens.

Students who lack basic decoding skills will need effective instruction in listening to learn content and limit the gap between reading and listening comprehension.

A kindergarten teacher plans a lesson designed to give students guided practice in learning a phonological awareness skill. Having students participate in which of the following activities best meets the teacher's goal?

Having students say the word "airplane" and then asking them to say it again without pronouncing "air"

Asking students to follow along as the teacher moves a finger from left to right while orally reading a line of text in a picture book

Distributing a set of plastic letters to students and having them use the manipulative to form decodable words

Cutting a student's name card into individual letters and modeling how to put the letters together to form the name

A 1st grade teacher works with small groups of students to teach them how to develop their writing skills. Which of the following methods best fosters the students ability to use correct mechanics, such as punctuation and capitalization, in their own writing?

Modeling how and when to use punctuation and capitalization during writing instruction

Having students copy punctuation and capitalization rules in their notebooks for reference

Assigning punctuation and capitalization work sheets from a workbook to complete

Emphasizing pauses indicated by punctuation during read-alouds

A 3rd grade teacher's reading instruction includes sources from multiple content areas. During a science lesson, students are reading a trade book about plants; the book contains many new and difficult vocabulary words such as: chlorophyll, germinate and photosynthesis. Which of the following reaching activities will best help the students develop an understanding of the new words?

Planning direct instruction using multimedia methods to introduce words in rich contexts

Making lists of words from the science book to post on a word wall in the classroom

Having students assume definitions for the new words and relate them to words they already know

Giving the students Venn diagrams to sort the new vocabulary into well-defined categories

Select the following oral language milestones in the order in which they are developed, earliest to latest.

1. Responding to simple questions with "yes" or "no" 2. Answering questions using complete sentences 3. Using content- related vocabulary correctly during conversations 4. Making an oral presentation

1. Responding to simple questions with "yes" or "no" 2. Answering questions using complete sentences 3. Making an oral presentation 4. Using content-related vocabulary correctly during conversation

1. Using content-related vocabulary correctly during conversation 2. Responding to simple questions with "yes" or "no" 3. Answering questions using complete sentences 4. Making an oral presentation

1. Responding to simple questions with "yes" or "no" 2. Using content-related vocabulary correctly during conversation 3. Answering questions using complete sentences 4. Making an oral presentation

Ms. Jones introduces visualizing as a comprehension skill to her first grade students using a short passage of text. Which of the following strategies illustrates how to best introduce the skill?

Explaining the process in detail and modeling it by thinking aloud while reading the passage

Have students listen to a recording of the passage without visualizing

Provide students with a written description of the passage without reading it aloud

Ask students to draw pictures before reading the passage

A 1st grade teacher notices during small group instruction that a student has difficulty decoding words such as: ran, pet, him and hot. Which of the following is the most appropriate way for the teacher to confirm the student's difficulty?

Administer a one-on-one reading assessment in which the student breaks spoken words into individual phonemes

Choosing an appropriate passage for the student to read aloud and noting how many words the student can read in 1 minute

Check for understanding by asking explicit questions after the student has complete reading a grade-level passage

Presenting a list of grade-level high-frequency words for the student to read aloud

In order to develop students spelling skills a teacher presents the following words to the class. Chin, Shut, Draw, Rash. Which of the following strategies best utilized a multi sensory and recursive approach to teaching the spelling of these words?

Using letter tiles to build previously learned CVC words along with the new words

Changing a poem with the digraph sounds found in the words

Completing a work sheet that matches pictures with the correct digraphs in the words

Writing each new word with similar CVC words multiple times

Which of the following strategies is most effective for improving a student's reading comprehension skills?

Providing explicit instruction on summarizing and questioning techniques

Encouraging silent reading of complex texts

Assigning more reading homework

Having students read aloud in front of the class

What is the primary benefit of using graphic organizers in reading instruction?

They assist in organizing and visualizing information

They help students decode unfamiliar words

They improve students' handwriting skills

They encourage students to read more quickly

Which of the following activities best supports the development of phonemic awareness in young children?

Playing rhyming games and songs

Reading aloud a variety of picture books

A primary purpose of a criterion-referenced reading benchmark is to...

Set the standards for student skill mastery along with the time frame indicating when the level of mastery should be achieved

Identify a students level of mastery of a curriculum- based skill as beginning, developing, or proficient

Compare a students mastery of a specific skill to that of peers who have previously taken the same assessment

Evaluate student skill mastery by reporting performance with raw scores, percentile, ranking, and grade equivalents

A 4th grade teacher works with a small group of students who decode well but demonstrate poor comprehension. Through various informal assessments, the teacher determines that the students do not effectively apply knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, roots, and bases when words change form and therefore students often lack understanding of academic text. Which THREE of the following activities best help students improve morphological analysis for better reading comprehension?

Examining word affixes and roots on semantic map posters

Completing a cloze by using a bank of word parts to fill in blanks in sentences

Combining word parts written on cards to form new words

Studying words with common bases and roots for a spelling quiz

Making list of words with similar affixes in a vocabulary notebook

Which of the following activities is most effective for enhancing students' phonemic awareness?

Asking students to identify the first sound in a list of words

Having students clap their hands for each syllable in a word

Encouraging students to write words that rhyme

Providing students with a list of words to read aloud

Which of the following strategies is most effective for teaching vocabulary to elementary students?

Using multimedia methods to introduce words in context

Having students memorize definitions of new words

Asking students to write sentences using new words

Providing students with a list of words to study independently

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is the most effective strategy for building and extending students' vocabulary knowledge?

Showing students how to use roots and affixes to determine meanings

Asking students to use unfamiliar words in a sentence

Asking students to look up the definitions of unfamiliar words to determine meanings

Requiring students to memorize the spelling of unfamiliar words

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.1.3

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What of the following is the ability to recognize that words in oral language are made up of a variety of sound units?

Alphabetic knowledge

Phonological awareness

Letter knowledge

Print awareness

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following instructional strategies is best for a first-grade teacher to use with emergent readers?

Teaching a mini lesson on a specific skill and asking students to complete independent practice on that skill

Providing students with time to read independently and helping them select books with proper leveling, content, and interest factors

Demonstrating two or three reading objectives in one lesson and facilitating guided practice for each of the objectives

Designing a series of lessons with one reading objective and providing modeling, explicit instruction, and guided practice of the objectives

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CCSS.RF.1.4B

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.3.4A

CCSS.RF.1.3C

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The instructional strategy list-group-label is most effective for teaching which of the following?

Vocabulary

Phonics skills

Concepts

Phonological arareness

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.1.3G

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.1.3E

CCSS.RF.1.4C

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The two best predictors of beginning reader's future reading success are alphabetic knowledge and the development of...

phonics skills

reading fluency

sight word recognition

phonemic awareness

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CCSS.RF.1.4C

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF 4.3.A

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.4C

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

While reading a short passage from a realistic fiction story aloud to the class, a student reads the following sentence. "I didn't think what I had done was so bad, but my mother sure knows how to make a mountain out of a molehill." The teacher her focuses the students' attention on the author's use of the phrase "to make a mountain out of a molehill" as an example of figurative language. Which of the following teacher actions is the most appropriate next step in helping students understand the phrase?

Having students recall other texts in which an author has used other unique linguistic structures

Asking students to decide whether the literal meaning of the phrase is the author's intended message

Adding the phrase to a student-centered poster of author's tools used to convey meaning by using language in interesting ways

Requiring that students write explanations of their personal reactions to the author's purposes for selecting the phrase to convey meaning

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.L.1.4A

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is the most effective instructional technique for helping kindergarten students develop an understanding of concepts about print?

Exposing students to a variety of rhyming texts.

Modeling how to track text during shared reading of a text.

Modeling finger tapping to identify the number of phonemes in words.

Providing direct instruction in common letter-sound relationships.

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CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RF.1.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.3.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

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5205 Praxis Teaching Reading Concepts

Which of the following is the most effective strategy for building and extending students' vocabulary knowledge?

What of the following is the ability to recognize that words in oral language are made up of a variety of sound units?

Which of the following instructional strategies is best for a first-grade teacher to use with emergent readers?

The instructional strategy list-group-label is most effective for teaching which of the following?

The two best predictors of beginning reader's future reading success are alphabetic knowledge and the development of...

Which of the following is the most effective instructional technique for helping kindergarten students develop an understanding of concepts about print?

How many morphemes are in the word "rerecorded"?

Which of the following pair of words demonstrate that different letter combinations can represent the same speech sound?

Which of the following is the best way for a teacher to assess student's phonemic awareness?

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