Literacy Block Praxis Review 3

Public speakers want to give speeches that make their audience pay attention, but they also want to give speeches whose messages are meaningful enough to remain in the audience member’s minds. This can be accomplished with:

• Simple language and stories

• Strick logical progression

• Sophisticated language and ideas

• Intense emotion and drama

  e. Eye contact

A student is able to apply strategies to comprehend the meanings of unfamiliar words; can supply definitions for words with several meanings such as crucial, criticism, and witness; and is able to reflect on her background knowledge in order to decipher a word’s meaning. These features of effective reading belong to which category?

• Word recognition

• Vocabulary

• Content

• Comprehension

Of the following activities that promote building vocabulary for young children, which one is most dependent on the teacher?

• Repeatedly singing the same familiar song over and over

• Reciting the same familiar rhymes and chants repeatedly

• Listening to repeated readings of the same favorite story

• A word wall in the classroom to illustrate words/concepts

Reading and writing are usually seen as the two major aspects of literacy that are taught in the classroom. What critical aspect of literacy begins at home but is often neglected in the classroom?

• Oral language development

• Health information

• Math skills

• Science awareness

A teacher is trying to assist a student with his scientific vocabulary. The student is also an English Language Learner. What could the teacher suggest to help him improve his scientific vocabulary MOST effectively?

a. Use a glossary of scientific terms for each chapter of the textbook and discuss these terms with the student as the relevant chapters are referenced

b. Assign a specific number of scientific terms for the student to look up in a scientific dictionary and share with the class

c. Explain the scientific terms to this student as concepts are presented and related to experiments performed

d. Ask the student to look for context to define difficult scientific words, and have the student record the definitions in a notebook

• Use a glossary of scientific terms for each chapter of the textbook and discuss these terms with the student as the relevant chapters are referenced

• Assign a specific number of scientific terms for the student to look up in a scientific dictionary and share with the class

• Explain the scientific terms to this student as concepts are presented and related to experiments performed

• Ask the student to look for context to define difficult scientific words, and have the student record the definitions in a notebook

Consider the following sentence: Mary is a very gregarious person and has many friends.

Based on the context of this sentence, the word gregarious means:

• Shy

• Angry

• Friendly

• Mean

Metaphor, a rhetorical device, is used in oratory to:

• Compare two distinct things using “like” or “as”

• Surprise listeners

• Introduce a new idea via a familiar one

• Make the speech poetic and beautiful

• Cause listeners to think philosophically

A teacher has a student in her class who is not very motivated to write because he finds it difficult. She observes he has a highly visual learning style, does not like reading books but loves graphic novels, and has considerable artistic drawing talent and interest. Which of the following instructional strategies would best address his individual needs, strengths, and interests?

• Giving him audio recordings to accompany and guide his writing homework

• Letting him complete all assignments by drawing pictures instead of writing

• Having him draw the pictures and write accompanying text in graphic novels

• Providing and assigning him to view animated videos on the topic of writing

Young children are more likely to respond to analogies in stories than to metaphors because

• They are old enough to understand the abstract thinking and symbolism that analogies express

• The ability to understand the kinds of abstraction expressed in metaphors is not developed until later in childhood

• They can apply the concepts expressed in analogies to their own daily lives, but metaphors do not compare things that children are familiar with

• Metaphors and symbols are usually found only in books that children find boring because of their abstractions

A class is reading a 14-line poem in iambic pentameter. There are three stanzas of four lines each, and a two-line couplet at the end. Words at the end of each line rhyme with another word in the same stanza. The class is reading a:

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

• Sestina

• Limerick