Praxis Practice 1

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

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

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

• 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

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CCSS.L.1.2D

CCSS.L.K.2C

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

which word refers to a student's ability to identify and manipulate units of oral language

• decoding

• phonological awareness

• fluency

• rate of reading

Which of the following phonemic manipulations is the most complex and is generally developed last by most students?

• Changing the /m/ in the word "mouse" to /h/

• breaking apart the word "cat" and saying each sound aloud

• combining "bl" and "oom" and then saying the word aloud

• Saying the word "doughnut" then saying it without "dough"

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CCSS.L.1.2D

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3A

A 1st grade teacher is preparing a phonics lesson on high-frequency words to introduce to the students . To prepare for the lesson, the teacher identifies several activities that would aid the students in acquiring the high-frequency words. Which of the following demonstrates an understanding of how to approach instruction in word recognition?

• Having the students tap out the regular sound correspondences in the word

• Writing words on index cards to flash to students when they are in class

• Having students copy and trace words on a worksheet

• Partnering students to have them find the words in a word search

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Which of the following best integrates and expands readers' thinking about terms and concepts encountered while constructing meaning from text?

• Mapping vocabulary

• Making predictions

• Summarizing text

• Searching sources

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A 3rd grade teacher reviewed data from a midyear literacy screening and compared them to the beginning of the year literacy screening. The data revealed that 2/3 of the emergent readers were now reading at grade level and the students who were grade level showed very little growth in reading comprehension of informational texts. Which of the following strategies will best help accelerate the growth of the grade level readers?

• Modeling think-alouds and reviewing text structures and text features to support comprehension

• Assigning students grade level texts and asking them o complete related comprehension questions about characters

• Having students reread an assigned text and complete a story map about the setting, conflict, and resolution

• Assigning students challenging texts and asking them to write about the mood and tone

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A 4th grade teacher works with a small group of students who decode well but have 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?

• Combining word parts written on cards to form new words

• Making lists of words with similar affixes in a vocabulary notebook

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

• Examining word affixes and roots on semantic map posters

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Which of the following best describes Ehri's full alphabetic phase in word reading development?

• Drawing random capital or lowercase letters, numbers or other symbols

• Writing the beginning and ending consonant sounds of words

• Writing words with short and long vowel patterns

• Using inflectional endings, changing spellings when needed

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CCSS.L.1.2E

CCSS.L.K.2D

CCSS.RF.1.3C

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.2.3B

A 2nd grade teacher guides students in using Elkonin boxes to write letters in boxes under pictures. Which of the following phonics concepts does the strategy best reinforce in the example shown?

• Vowel Teams

• Schwa Sounds

• Short Vowels

• Consonant Blends

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CCSS.RF.1.3A

Which of the following should a teacher do to best help students who are revising their own writing?

• Give the students a lesson on how to identify errors in subject verb agreement

• Identify grammatical errors in the students' writing that need correction

• Recommend that students elaborate and use words to make images more specific

• Require students to use depended clauses to make simple sentences more elaborate.