Praxis ELA

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 sentence is in the passive voice?

• The chef cooked a delicious meal.

• A delicious meal was cooked by the chef.

• The meal is delicious.

• Cooking a delicious meal is fun.

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

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