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praxis 5025
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following is most effective in helping young children develop phonological awareness? | singing songs with simple rhymes |
| A first-grade student, Kyle, has drawn an elaborate picture of a garden in his journal and has written: “I LK RD FLRS.” Kyle’s sentence suggests that an appropriate next step in his development as a writer would be learning to | use medial vowel sounds |
| graphic novels are effective for third-grade students because they | allow development of visual and verbal literacy |
| which of the following best describes a student at the semiphonetic stage of spelling development | recognizes that sounds in words are represented by letters |
| A kindergarten teacher opens a book to the middle of the story and asks a student, “Where on this page should I begin reading?” It is most likely that the teacher is attempting to evaluate the student’s | concepts about print |
| A list containing the words “whale,” “three,” “ship,” and “chew.” “Circle the two letters in each word that go together to make the new sounds we have been learning about.” This assess the students’ ability to recognize which of the following? | consonant diagraphs |
| Learning to differentiate among words that have common roots by looking at the modifications that result when prefixes or suffixes (such as “pre-,” “un-,” “dis-,” “-tive,” “-tion,” and “-ment”) are added to known roots is accomplished through the use of | morphological analysis |
| Which of the following students composes both sentences as simple sentences? | jackson: he played at the park. Mom went to the house. |
| Which of the following is the most apporpiate time to encourage young children to start writing | as soon as they can hold a crayon or marker |
| A class is reading a story in which the main character is facing a dilemma. Which of the following activities is most likely to encourage the students to think ahead and collaboratively generate solutions to the character’s dilemma? | having students work in small groups to role-play possible solutions |
| A teacher notices that a student has written the words “goed” and “breaked” in a story. Which of the following best describes the error the student is making? | overapplying a recently learned rule |
| The "ake" in the words "bake" and "snake" is an examples of which of the following? | a rime |
| Third-grade students are creating a story map as they read about the donkey Sylvester, who has turned into a rock. The most important benefit of the story-mapping activity is that it will help the students | improve their comprehension of the story by organizing and sequencing events |
| Which of the following best explains why it is necessary to teach unfamiliar, academic vocabulary to students who are English-language learners before they are asked to read a passage in a nonfiction text? | such volcabularay is not often used during informal conversations |
| Which THREE of the following classroom activities are effective for helping a student who is a slow and nonfluent reader? | reading along with a taped or recorded book repeated choral readings of the class's favorite poems and funny stories listening to the teacher read with intonations and stress |
| Jean is willing to hike in the snow, but Jim is reluctant and goes inside because of the frigid temperatures. Which type of context clue in the sentence helps decode the meaning of the underlined word? | contrast |
| A teacher is informally assessing second-grade students’ listening comprehension skills after reading aloud Aesop’s fable “The Lion and the Mouse.” Which of the following prompts requires the children to draw an inference from the fable? | what lesson does the fable teacher |
| Based on the information in the chart above, it can be inferred that the child Month and Child’s spelling of “boat” September November January bt bot bote | is applying a growing knowledge of the relationship between letters and sounds |
| A teacher talks with the children about the concept of opposites. The teacher then asks them to use the pictures in the book to talk about opposites with their peers. The lesson best encourages oral language development in young children by | encouraging them to engage in conversation |
| Ms. Craig asks her students to write the word "sailboat". Levi spells the word "PKLLEEP". At which of the following levels is Levi spelling? | pre phonemic |
| Which of the following is the most appropriate introductory activity about syllables for a kindergarten class? | asking children to clap out and count each syllable in words as a wclass |
| Which of the following whole-group activities would best support kindergartners’ understanding of a story’s setting after listening to the story read aloud? | identifying words the author used to describe the story's surrounding |
| A teacher reads the following sentences in a child’s response journal. This is a long tail. Their onced was a sun. He worked in a coal mind. He was sooty. Then he found a garland. That is a red gem. The child needs help with which of the following? | homophones |
| Which of the following is an example of a Tier 2 vocabulary word? | establish |
| Which of the following spelling patterns is found in the word “bone”? | CVCe |
| “Write about a time when you lost something important you.” A third-grade teacher asks students to respond to the prompt shown. The prompt asks students to produce which of the following types of writing? | narrative |
| Which of the following strategies is most beneficial for students to use during the publishing stage of the writing process? | typing the final copy on a computer |
| I enjoyed the trip to the museum. We rode there in the school bus. We also saw many displays and ate lunch. Which of the following instructional strategies will be most useful in helping the student improve the writing piece shown? | asking the student questions about the trip |
| Which of the following activities will best foster the development of students’ listening skills? | asking students to summarize a short paragrpash that the teacher read aloud |
| Which of the following terms best describes the ability to read with expression and appropriate phrasing? | prosody |
| Which of the following activities will best help students understand the structure of a science text? | reviewing the subtitles |
| Third-grade students are writing reports on a science topic. Which of the following tools will best help students with the assignment by initiating written discussion of their report? | blogging programs |
| A teacher provides students with a list of words that include “precede,” “project,” “illegal,” and “disappear.” The students are most likely learning about which of the following concepts? | prefixes |
| Which of the following are sight words? | they, said, does |
| After reading two texts about the first Thanksgiving, a third-grade teacher asks students to compare the events in both texts. Which of the following graphic organizers is best for the students to use? | venn diagram |
| Which of the following strategies will best help students create engaging oral presentations? | writing key words and terms on note cards to refrer to during the presentation |
| Four students are given a set of twenty-five blocks and asked to represent the blocks using a base-ten method. Which of the following representations best shows a fully developed understanding of base-ten representations? | the model shows an understanding that 25 is made up of 2 tens and 5 ones |
| A first-grade class is learning about addition and subtraction fact families. Which of the following students has correctly written an example of two equations in the same fact family? | Abia, who writes 5 + 3 = 8 and 8 – 3 = 5 |
| Students in a second-grade class are comparing the lengths of different objects in the classroom using metric measurement units. Which of the following measurement units is most appropriate for the students to use? | meter |
| Ms. Hanza, a second-grade teacher, surveys her students and tallies their favorite shapes. Then, the class constructs the graph shown above. Which of the following math skills will the activity primarily reinforce? | collecting and representing data |
| Draw a triangle and divide it into halves Draw a square and divide it into halves Which is larger: half of the triangle or half of the square? By asking students the question, the teacher most likely wants them to | recognize that fraction comparisons are only valid when fractions refer to the same |
| A teacher asks preschoolers Dominic and Keira to make sure that each child at their table has an apple. They take apples from a basket and place an apple in front of each child. Dominic then says, “We need more apples for our table, an apple for Keira an | one-to-one correspondence |