Praxis 5205-6

A fifth-grade teacher suggests that students should read aloud pieces they have written. The teacher is MOST LIKELY suggesting this because

• students of this age are still developing oral language skills,

• the teacher should grade writing only after hearing it read aloud.

• this is a simple way for students to publish their work.

• oral reading is the optimal time for mechanics instruction.

While observing writing conferences in an upper elementary classroom, a teacher hears a student suggest to a peer that he delete an irrelevant sentence from his essay. The teacher would MOST LIKELY praise the student for her suggestion to improve the essay's

• tone.

• organization.

• style.

• focus.

A teacher writes the following list on an elementary classroom board:

Long A - Short A

paper - apple

danger - catwalk

grape - scan

Which of the following spelling activities is the class MOST LIKELY engaged in?

• cover-copy-compare

• paper

• word sorts

• word families

Which of the following strategies is most useful for helping students develop coherence and organization in their writing?

• freewriting or journaling

• DR-TA

• RAFT

• framed paragraphs

A student receiving literacy interventions writes the following introductory paragraph for his autobiographical essay:

My name is Joel my friends sometimes call me Joe. I have lived in Boston my whole life I enjoy baseball fishing and marshal arts. I live in a large house my two brothers live there to.

Which type of targeted mechanics instruction should the teacher providing interventions plan?

• basic orthography

• sentence structure

• basic capitalization

• preposition use

Peer review activities can be an effective part of the writing process when they

• use homogenous grouping.

• encourage brutal honesty,

• take place without teacher assistance.

• occur within a structured framework

In which type of writing would students be MOST LIKELY to use a dialect or register and still communicate a message effectively?

• an expository essay

• a free-verse poem

• a research paper

• a blographical essay

Purposeful instruction in the mechanics of writing should focus on which of the following relationships?

• semantics and pragmatics

• mechanics and communication

• inductive and deductive reasoning

• mechanics and vocabulary

Which strategy would be most helpful for a fourth-grade teacher who wants to help her students develop prosody?

• audio-assisted reading

• analytic phonics

• reader's theater

• reading workshop

A fourth-grade teacher uses timed repeated readings to help students build fluency. Which type of texts should she select for such readings?

• unfamiliar texts

• poetry only

• familiar texts

• fiction texts only