Praxis II – Elementary Education (5001) Study Guide with Key
Concepts and Practice Questions
Assonance - correct answer ✔✔ Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
Meter - correct answer ✔✔ A recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates
a rhythm when spoken
Iambic meter - correct answer ✔✔ An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Blank verse - correct answer ✔✔ unrhymed verse that consists of lines of iambic pentameter
Free verse - correct answer ✔✔ Lacks regular patterns of poetic feet, but has more controlled
rhythm than prose in terms of pace and pauses.
Phonological awareness - correct answer ✔✔ A sub-skill of literacy; the ability to perceive
sound structures in spoken word, such as syllables and the individual phonemes within
syllables.
Phonemes - correct answer ✔✔ The sounds represented by the letters in the alphabet
Teaching phonological awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Language play; an exposure to a variety
of sounds and contexts of sounds
Alphabetic principle - correct answer ✔✔ The use of letters and combinations of letters to
represent speech sounds
Developing language skills - correct answer ✔✔ - Interacting with others
,- Experiencing language in daily life
- Understanding that speaking and listening are necessary for effective communication.
Know, Wonder, Learn - correct answer ✔✔ What KWL stands for
Decoding - correct answer ✔✔ Method used to make sense of printed words and figure out
how to correctly pronounce them.
Student must know the relationships between letters and sounds, including:
- letter patterns
- words are constructed from phonemes
- printed word represents a word that can be spoken.
Phonics - correct answer ✔✔ Process of learning to read by learning how spoken language is
represented by letters
Whole language approach - correct answer ✔✔ Method of teaching children to read by
recognizing words as whole pieces of language; believes that language should not be broken
down into letters and combinations of letters and "decoded."
Fluency - correct answer ✔✔ The goal of literacy development; the ability to read and write
accurately and quickly
Affixes - correct answer ✔✔ Syllables attached to the beginning or end of a word to make a
derivative or inflectional form of a word.
Noun suffixes - correct answer ✔✔ Type of suffix. Two types:
- Denotes the act of, state of, or quality of. (argument)
, - Denotes the doer, or one who does (auctioneer)
Verb suffixes - correct answer ✔✔ Type of suffix. Denote "to make" or "two perform the act of"
(soften)
Adjectival suffixes - correct answer ✔✔ Type of suffix. Include suffixes such as "ful" which
means "full of." Ish, less, able.
Literal comprehension - correct answer ✔✔ The skills a reader uses to deal with the actual
words in a text. Involves skills such as identifying the topic sentence, main idea, important facts,
and supporting details; using context clues to determine the meaning of a word; and
sequencing events.
Critical comprehension - correct answer ✔✔ Involves the prior knowledge and an
understanding that written material, especially in nonfiction, is the author's version and not
necessarily anyone else's. Involves analysis of meaning, evaluation, validation, questioning, and
the reasoning skills a reader uses to recognize inferences and conclusions, purpose, tone, POV,
themes, etc.
Metacognitive Skills - correct answer ✔✔ Awareness , Planning, Self-monitoring and reflection
Taking an active role in reading
Recognizing reading behaviors
Relating info to prior knowledge
Being aware of text structures
Synecdoche - correct answer ✔✔ Use of a part of something to signify the whole:
"Boots on the ground"
Concepts and Practice Questions
Assonance - correct answer ✔✔ Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
Meter - correct answer ✔✔ A recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates
a rhythm when spoken
Iambic meter - correct answer ✔✔ An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Blank verse - correct answer ✔✔ unrhymed verse that consists of lines of iambic pentameter
Free verse - correct answer ✔✔ Lacks regular patterns of poetic feet, but has more controlled
rhythm than prose in terms of pace and pauses.
Phonological awareness - correct answer ✔✔ A sub-skill of literacy; the ability to perceive
sound structures in spoken word, such as syllables and the individual phonemes within
syllables.
Phonemes - correct answer ✔✔ The sounds represented by the letters in the alphabet
Teaching phonological awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Language play; an exposure to a variety
of sounds and contexts of sounds
Alphabetic principle - correct answer ✔✔ The use of letters and combinations of letters to
represent speech sounds
Developing language skills - correct answer ✔✔ - Interacting with others
,- Experiencing language in daily life
- Understanding that speaking and listening are necessary for effective communication.
Know, Wonder, Learn - correct answer ✔✔ What KWL stands for
Decoding - correct answer ✔✔ Method used to make sense of printed words and figure out
how to correctly pronounce them.
Student must know the relationships between letters and sounds, including:
- letter patterns
- words are constructed from phonemes
- printed word represents a word that can be spoken.
Phonics - correct answer ✔✔ Process of learning to read by learning how spoken language is
represented by letters
Whole language approach - correct answer ✔✔ Method of teaching children to read by
recognizing words as whole pieces of language; believes that language should not be broken
down into letters and combinations of letters and "decoded."
Fluency - correct answer ✔✔ The goal of literacy development; the ability to read and write
accurately and quickly
Affixes - correct answer ✔✔ Syllables attached to the beginning or end of a word to make a
derivative or inflectional form of a word.
Noun suffixes - correct answer ✔✔ Type of suffix. Two types:
- Denotes the act of, state of, or quality of. (argument)
, - Denotes the doer, or one who does (auctioneer)
Verb suffixes - correct answer ✔✔ Type of suffix. Denote "to make" or "two perform the act of"
(soften)
Adjectival suffixes - correct answer ✔✔ Type of suffix. Include suffixes such as "ful" which
means "full of." Ish, less, able.
Literal comprehension - correct answer ✔✔ The skills a reader uses to deal with the actual
words in a text. Involves skills such as identifying the topic sentence, main idea, important facts,
and supporting details; using context clues to determine the meaning of a word; and
sequencing events.
Critical comprehension - correct answer ✔✔ Involves the prior knowledge and an
understanding that written material, especially in nonfiction, is the author's version and not
necessarily anyone else's. Involves analysis of meaning, evaluation, validation, questioning, and
the reasoning skills a reader uses to recognize inferences and conclusions, purpose, tone, POV,
themes, etc.
Metacognitive Skills - correct answer ✔✔ Awareness , Planning, Self-monitoring and reflection
Taking an active role in reading
Recognizing reading behaviors
Relating info to prior knowledge
Being aware of text structures
Synecdoche - correct answer ✔✔ Use of a part of something to signify the whole:
"Boots on the ground"
