WorksheetsPRAXIS II 5203 Reading (24 ques.)
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the language acquisition process of young children?
Young children understand full sentences at a relatively late stage in language development.
Young children exhibit random, highly variable errors in sentence construction.
Young children infer the underlying rules of language to which they are exposed.
Young children require panned early instructional intervention to master the grammar of the English language.
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.
Which of the following pair of words demonstrate that different letter combinations can represent the same speech sound?
Church...chorus
Bow...bow
Hot...cold
Phone...laugh
How many morphemes are in the word "rerecorded"?
1
2
3
4
Which of the following is the best way for a teacher to assess student' phonemic awareness?
Ask students to identify the letter at the beginning of the word "desk"
Say the word "lamp" and ask students to break it into individual sounds.
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?
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.
Creating a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the concepts of protest and rebellion.
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 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.
Students should read the text multiple times and focus on a different outcome during each reading.
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 text-dependent questions best focuses students to think about the craft and structure of a text?
What did the main character do when he saw the letter? Why?
How did the author describe Bradley's uncle? Why did the author choose to describe him that way?
Have you ever read another story like this? How are they similar?
How has Ma and Karin's relationship changed over the course of the story? What changed it?
Which of the following best reflects research about teaching alphabetic principle to young students?
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
Teaching students continuous vowel and consonant sounds before stop (or clipped) sounds
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.
Building prior knowledge of the passage before the student's oral reading.
Providing explicit instruction and modeling of prosodic reading of text.
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....
guide the students to continue reading when they come to an unfamiliar word in order to search for context clues
assign a small portion of text, an then pause for discussion and student questions before moving on
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
How many phonemes are in the word 'branch'?
5
4
3
2
You are a Kindergarten teacher who is teaching students how to distinguish between upper and lowercase letters. Select the choice that describes what you should do according to best practice.
Teach all of the uppercase letters first, and then teach all of the lowercase letters.
Teach each letter using a 'letter of the week' approach.
Engage the students with books, ABC songs, and word games, making learning fun.
Teach each letter, both upper and lowercase, in isolation.
What is 'phonemic awareness'?
Phonemic awareness is the ability to decode longer words, including nonsense words.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to determine how many syllables are in a word.
Phonemic awareness is the understanding that all speech is made up of individual sounds.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to determine a word's meaning using context clues.
How do graphic organizers help students with learning disabilities when reading?
Graphic organizers help organize new information.
Graphic organizers reinforce new vocabulary.
Graphic organizers provide a pre-reading summary.
Graphic organizers aid in making connections.
Karen is a first-year Kindergarten teacher. She has to design a lesson for a small group of students that will help them develop an understanding about how print works. Which lesson would be most effective?
The students will watch as Karen reads a passage from a big book, tracing the text with a pointer as she reads.
The students will practice choral reading a poem that contains words from the -at word family.
The students will play a sight word game using flashcards and a timer.
The students will clap to a beat as the teacher reads multi-syllable words out loud.
Marissa is a struggling reader. Before reading a nonfiction text about the water cycle, her teacher had Marissa create a list of everything she already knew about the subject. Why would Marissa's teacher do this?
Marissa's teacher knows that activating a student's prior knowledge about a subject before reading helps the student decode unfamiliar words.
Marissa's teacher knows that activating a student's prior knowledge about a subject before reading helps the student comprehend the text.
Marissa's teacher knows that activating a student's prior knowledge about a subject before reading helps the student improve his or her fluency reading rate.
Marissa's teacher knows that activating a student's prior knowledge about a subject before reading helps the student construct better written responses.
John is teaching a lesson to a small group of students. The goal of the lesson is to teach the students how to decode new words. He knows that the word ''transportation'' may be difficult for his students to read, so he writes the following sentence on the board: ''Cars, trains, and planes are all forms of transportation.'' What teaching strategy is John using?
John is teaching his students to use visual clues in order to decode unfamiliar words.
John is teaching his students to use semantic clues in order to decode unfamiliar words.
John is teaching his students how to break words into smaller chunks in order to decode unfamiliar words.
John is teaching his students how to use high frequency words in order to decode unfamiliar words.
Mr. Greene teaches third grade. He needs to assess the reading fluency rates of each child in his class. What type of assessment should he administer?
Mr. Greene should administer a running record where he keeps track of miscues and comprehension rates.
Mr. Greene should have the students read lists of grade-level sight words.
Mr. Greene should time how long it takes a student to read a page from a grade-appropriate trade book.
Mr. Greene should have the students read a nonfiction article and then write a short summary of what they read.
An Informal Reading Inventory has five main purposes. Out of the choices below, which is NOT a purpose for administering this type of assessment?
An IRI helps a teacher determine a student's instructional reading level.
An IRI tests how well a student is able to write clear and detailed answers based on a grade-appropriate reading passage.
An IRI provides the teacher with clues as to what types of reading strategies and behaviors a child utilizes while decoding a text.
An IRI gives the teacher an idea of what types of frustrations a child encounters while reading.
Mrs. Oskvig, a second-grade teacher, wants to assess Jacob's ability to decode words. What type of assessment should she use for this?
She should read a list of words out loud while Jacob writes down the spelling for each word.
She should have Jacob read a short passage and answer several comprehension questions.
She should have Jacob read a leveled word list and keep track of his errors.
She should have Jacob read a list of ten sentences and time how long it takes him to complete the task.
Mr. Johnson utilizes a variety of assessments in his first-grade classroom. Which informal assessment would Mr. Johnson use to help his students and their parents see progress in various subjects over the course of the school year using student work samples?
Project-Based Assignments
Report Cards
Portfolios
Tests and Quizzes
Mr. Tar is designing a comprehension lesson for his fourth-grade class using a Response to Intervention (RTI) reading strategy. The objective of his lesson is to have the students correctly sequence the main events of a story. Which reading strategy should he choose?
Story Map
Venn Diagram
Concept Map
Anticipation Guide
