PRAXIS ELA part 1

How many phonemes are in the word "ball"?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which of the following skills are beginning readers most likely to first master?

• Dividing words into syllables

• Blending onsets and rimes

• Segmenting phonemes in spoken words

• Recognizing and producing rhyming words

Which TWO of the following syllable types are present in the word "remarkable"?

• Open

• Closed

• Vowel team

• R-controlled

Which of the following is the most appropriate strategy for using easy books to increase fluency in a nonfluent student?

• Providing opportunities for the nonfluent student to read self-selected easy books to a younger student

• Asking a younger, more fluent reader to read an easy book aloud to the nonfluent student

• Assigning an easy-to-read nonfiction book to the nonfluent student for independent reading

• Encouraging other students to interrupt and correct when the nonfluent student is reading easy books aloud

Which of the following is most commonly used in digital text to give a reader access to additional information about a topic?

• A citation

• A hyperlink

• An index

• A glossary

Mike loves playing football. He is the quarterback for his team, and he knows when to call the right plays. He hates having to miss a practice, and his teammates are frustrated when he’s not there. They always say, “Where is Mike? We are lost without him.” The team usually has a good practice even if he is not there, but they miss out on practicing key plays. Which of the following best explains how the reader knows that the passage is from a third-person narrative?

• The narrator is only an observer of the action in the passage.

• The narrator is participating in the dialogue in the passage.

• The narrator discloses only his or her thoughts and feelings in the passage.

• The narrator uses the present tense to discuss the conflict in the passage.

Which of the following statements best describes how graphic novels promote inferencing?

• Readers rely on characters' dialogue to tell the story.

• Readers are given graphic organizers to facilitate understanding.

• Readers can summarize the stories' beginning, middle, and end.

• Readers use the pictures to interpret the text.

Which of the following is true of qualitative measures of text complexity?

• They describe statistical measurements of a text.

• They rely on computer algorithms to describe text.

• They involve attributes that can be measured only by human readers.

• They account for the different motivational levels readers bring to texts.

Which TWO of the following can be classified as expository writing?

• A short story

• A technical speech

• A personal diary

• A scientific report

• An editorial commentary

The meaning of sentence 1 differs from that of sentence 2 in that the

• sentences do not have the same simple predicate

• adjective phrase "from Nebraska" modifies different nouns

• subject of sentence 1 is "teacher," while the subject of sentence 2 is "artifacts"

• first sentence ends in a prepositional phrase, while the second sentence does not