5205 Praxis Teaching Reading Concepts

Which of the following is the most effective strategy for building and extending students' vocabulary knowledge?

• Showing students how to use roots and affixes to determine meanings

• Asking students to use unfamiliar words in a sentence

• Asking students to look up the definitions of unfamiliar words to determine meanings

• Requiring students to memorize the spelling of unfamiliar words

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CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.2.4

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What of the following is the ability to recognize that words in oral language are made up of a variety of sound units?

• Alphabetic knowledge

• Phonological awareness

• Letter knowledge

• Print awareness

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CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

Which of the following instructional strategies is best for a first-grade teacher to use with emergent readers?

• Teaching a mini lesson on a specific skill and asking students to complete independent practice on that skill

• Providing students with time to read independently and helping them select books with proper leveling, content, and interest factors

• Demonstrating two or three reading objectives in one lesson and facilitating guided practice for each of the objectives

• Designing a series of lessons with one reading objective and providing modeling, explicit instruction, and guided practice of the objectives

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CCSS.RF.1.4B

CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.4C

The instructional strategy list-group-label is most effective for teaching which of the following?

• Vocabulary

• Phonics skills

• Concepts

• Phonological arareness

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CCSS.RF.1.3A

CCSS.RF.1.3F

CCSS.RF.1.4A

CCSS.RF.2.4B

CCSS.RF.4.4C

The two best predictors of beginning reader's future reading success are alphabetic knowledge and the development of...

• phonics skills

• reading fluency

• sight word recognition

• phonemic awareness

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CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.2.4B

CCSS.RF.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.4C

While reading a short passage from a realistic fiction story aloud to the class, a student reads the following sentence. "I didn't think what I had done was so bad, but my mother sure knows how to make a mountain out of a molehill." The teacher her focuses the students' attention on the author's use of the phrase "to make a mountain out of a molehill" as an example of figurative language. Which of the following teacher actions is the most appropriate next step in helping students understand the phrase?

• Having students recall other texts in which an author has used other unique linguistic structures

• Asking students to decide whether the literal meaning of the phrase is the author's intended message

• Adding the phrase to a student-centered poster of author's tools used to convey meaning by using language in interesting ways

• Requiring that students write explanations of their personal reactions to the author's purposes for selecting the phrase to convey meaning

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CCSS.L.1.4A

CCSS.RI.1.4

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.

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CCSS.RF.2.4A

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

How many morphemes are in the word "rerecorded"?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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CCSS.L.1.4B

CCSS.L.1.4C

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

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CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

Which of the following is the best way for a teacher to assess student's 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.

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CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A