WorksheetsPraxis 5205-6
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 2hrs 34mins
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
A fourth-grade teacher wants help students build oral fluency. Which of the following strategies is the MOST LIKELY to meet this goal?
paired reading in heterogenous groups
reciprocal teaching in homogenous groups
think-alouds that promote metacognition
cloze exercises completed independently
Jenine is a second-grade student targeted for extra reading practice. One day, the teacher listens to her read a paragraph out loud and notices that Jenine is reading very slowly. Which of the following parts of fluency does Jenine need help with?
rate
prosody
accuracy
phonemes
What is the purpose of sight word instruction in an elementary classroom?
to help students learn letter-sound correspondences to improve accuracy
to help students manipulate sounds in words to improve auditory skills
to help students recognize words automatically to improve fluency
to help students use word parts to improve reading comprehension
A second grade teacher has a student with dyslexia in the general education classroom. The student often struggles with losing her place while reading a connected text. What strategy is most likely to help this student?
use of audio texts
teaching fix up strategies
text annotation
finger tracking
To help students expand their vocabulary based on root words they already know, they can be instructed in:
common derivational morphemes
etymologies
creating and using word walls
syllabication
A student in a first grade class is struggling with oral fluency. The teacher believes some of the issue may involve the student's lack of confidence. Which strategy should the teacher try?
modeling appropriate rate and prosody
giving the student a familiar text for oral assessments
encouraging the student to segment sentences
having the student participate in reader's theatre
As part of a vocabulary exercise, a fourth grade teacher allows students to draw a picture representing each word, write a sentence demonstrating the meaning of each word, or audio or video record a conversation of them using each word. This activity best shows this teacher's commitment to
inquiry-based learning
criterion-referenced assessment
universal design for learning
standards-based assessment
A third grade teacher begins a unit on affixes like -ive, -ion, and -ly. What other topic could be easily integrated into this unit?
academic language
sentence structure
parts of speech
active and passive voice
A reading teacher conducting a curriculum-based measurement (CBM) determines that a third-grade student is reading at a rate of 150 words correct per minute. What next step should the teacher take?
refer the student for evaluation for special education eligibility
identify possible enrichment opportunities for the student
place the student in a cohort for Tier 2 interventions aimed at developing fluency
place the student in a cohort for Tier 3 interventions aimed at developing fluency
An upper elementary teacher has several English language learners who need additional vocabulary development practice. Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate?
teaching fix-up strategies
using a language experience approach (LEA)
instruction in common idioms
incidental vocabulary learning
Why do young English language learners need vocabulary development activities alongside synthetic phonics instruction for accurate decoding?
Decoding relies on advanced oral language skills and expressive vocabulary.
Decoding includes making meaning of a word after it has been sounded out.
ELLs may struggle with digraphs not present in their native language.
ELLs may struggle with orthographic conventions.
Mr. Ramirez's co-teacher has asked that he help introduce the following new vocabulary to his third-grade class to help prepare students for an upcoming math lesson: parallel, congruent, rhombus, trapezoid. Which of the following concepts is being developed in the students?
content-specific words
multiple-meaning words
different registers
figurative language
In a conference with the parents of a second grade student, a teacher wants to provide suggestions for practice at home to improve fluency. Which strategy should the teacher suggest?
timed silent reading
cloze exercises
reading aloud to a younger sibling
listening to an older sibling read aloud
A fifth grade teacher is helping students understand subtle shades of meaning and connotations of words. Which vocabulary-building activity is most appropriate?
semantic gradients
possible sentences
morphological analysis
word wall
A second grade teacher wants to assess fluency during silent reading. Which strategy would best meet this goal?
observation as students turn the pages of a book
a timed passage-based comprehension assessment
students write a journal entry in response to a text
an exit ticket at the end of class
According to Scarborough's strands of the reading rope, what is most likely to make reading become more automatic?
background knowledge
vocabulary knowledge
word recognition
understanding of language structure
Which text type would be most appropriate for use to assess oral fluency?
a familiar text at the independent or instructional reading level
an unfamiliar text at the instructional or frustration level
any unfamiliar text
any literary text
A third-grade ELL student is struggling to meet the teacher's goals for proficient prosody during oral reading assessments. What is the best course of action for the teacher to take?
have the student read the same text multiple times
ask the student to slow down the reading rate
encourage the student to use graphophonic cueing
give the student texts with rhyme or dialogue
A prekindergarten teacher notices one of her students, Rene, is pretend reading a book from the back cover to the front cover. Which of the following does Rene need more practice with?
phonemic awareness
phonological awareness
letter-sound correspondence
concepts of print
Which of the following statements is true about phonemic awareness?
It generally has to be explicitly taught.
It is natural and intuitive.
Most students will master it at the same rate.
Students do not need it to begin reading.
Anna has just joined a teacher's first-grade class. She and her family recently moved from Taiwan to the United States, and they speak little English, especially Anna. The teacher knows that her home language is Mandarin, and she knows that its sounds are often very different from English sounds. The teacher is spending the bulk of the allotted reading time on phonics decoding and word-attack skills. Most of the class is working on spelling words with challenging consonant digraphs like -ch, -sh, and -th. In what way might the teacher differentiate instruction for Anna, who does not yet speak English fluently?
give her a book to read in Mandarin while the rest of the class is working on spelling
have her copy the spelling words instead of writing them independently
avoid any phonics instruction and focus on developing Anna's English vocabulary
design an activity that will help Anna become familiar with basic English phonemes
Which of the following categories describes a common way to classify phonemes?
vowel versus consonant
morphology versus semantics
receptive versus expressive
generative versus procedural
How many morphemes does the word "painted" have?
one
two
three
four
A kindergarten teacher says to a student, "We study at the li/brar/y. Where do we study?" This activity is designed to promote which of the following?
phoneme blending
phoneme segmentation
awareness of orthographic pattern
concepts of print
Using texts with alliteration can help young children develop which of the following?
oral automaticity
phonemic awareness
pre-phonetic spelling
digraph recognition
Which of the following word pairs shows both a CV and VC pattern?
on, go
off, pin
clap, up
big, bad
Mrs. Ramirez has a classroom routine of conducting a read-aloud with her kindergarten class each morning and then asking her students questions to gauge their level of comprehension, engagement, and interest in the story. Which of the following types of questions should Mrs. Ramirez primarily ask her students?
rhetorical questions
passive-listening questions
open-ended questions
closed-ended questions
Which of the following words cannot be spelled through simple phoneme segmentation?
up
bigger
not
help
Which of the following words has the onset italicized?
pl-Ate
bR-oom
in-TER-est
fair-
A kindergarten teacher notes that a student struggles to remember the sounds letters make. What kind of exercises would best benefit this student?
those aimed at graphophonemic skills
those aimed at print awareness
those aimed at orthographic processing
those aimed at phonological processing
A teacher has her first grade students complete a journal page every day. They draw pictures and write descriptions of their pictures, spelling the words as well as they can. How does this activity contribute to students' phonics proficiency?
Students connect letters to sounds.
Students practice authentic decoding.
Students build fine motor skills.
Students identify orthographic patterns.
Which of the following words contains a digraph?
sap
cat
hay
go
A teacher notices that Eva, one of her kindergarten students, is trying to read the following sentence: The ball sits. Eva can sound out the words ball and sits but is struggling with the word the. Which of the following targeted practice should be used with Eva?
give her more practice with challenging digraphs like th
give her more practice with letter-sound correspondence
have her practice more silent reading and less oral reading
give her practice with high-frequency sight words
Which of the following is true of beginning phonics instruction that might occur in a kindergarten classroom?
It usually involves lots of oral exercises.
It relies heavily on sight word knowledge.
It presumes students have a knowledge of Latin and Greek roots.
It does not require knowledge of letter-sound correspondence.
A second grade teacher wants to improve students' decoding skills. Which of the following would be the most effective instructional strategy?
introducing character analysis
teaching word families
encouraging finger tracking
demonstrating think-alouds
Which of the following letters is most likely to be introduced first in progressive phonics instruction?
a
g
y
m
To help students expand their vocabulary based on root words they already know, they can be instructed in:
common derivational morphemes
etymologies
creating and using word walls
syllabication
