Praxis Teaching Reading: Elementary Education – Study Guide and
Practice Material (Grades 1–6)
Close Reading - ANS✔✔ technique in which students read challenging texts multiple times, each
time for a different purpose.
Prosody - ANS✔✔ the patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
Narrative text - ANS✔✔ Tells a story.
Includes: fables, myths, science fiction, even some news reports, biographies, and
autobiographies.
Story Schema - ANS✔✔ A mental construct of what compromises a story
Story Grammar - ANS✔✔ in text analysis, a formal device or grammar used for specifying
relations among episodes in a story and to formulate rules for generating other stories.
I Chart Procedure - ANS✔✔ 3 steps: Planning, Interacting, and Integrating and Evaluating
Helpful for Critical Thinking
K-W-L Procedure - ANS✔✔ What I know, What I want to learn, and what I learned.
Directed Reading - ANS✔✔ procedure where you teach students to make predictions
continually as they read narrative texts.
(1) planning and setting goals for reading; (2) activating their background knowledge and using
textual cues to construct meaning from the text as they read; (3) self-monitoring their reading
, comprehension; (4) solving problems they experience while reading; and (5) self-evaluating
their progress. - ANS✔✔ Transactional Strategy Instruction (5 steps)
Helps with comprehension
Common Core State Standards - ANS✔✔ Argue that narrative is important, BUT students must
also develop skills for writing argument and persuasion that they can support.
Questioning the Author - ANS✔✔ a procedure that stimulates students to reflect on what an
author is trying to say in expository text that they read
Combined Text Books - ANS✔✔ Informational and narrative book
Kidzbiz Achieve 3000 - ANS✔✔ Software that gives articles of various reading levels and asks
Standardized tests questions with it.
Literacy-rich Environment - ANS✔✔ one that provides students having disabilities with
stimulation to take part in activities involving language and literacy during their everyday life
routines
Literacy examples in a classroom - ANS✔✔ printed labeled materials (schedule, calendar, etc.),
helping teacher change the room to any topic they are working on
supplementary texts - ANS✔✔ texts on the same subject or theme as the more difficult core
text.
Helps with those who have lower background knowledge and literacy levels
morphological units - ANS✔✔ the smallest grammatical units conveying different meanings
Practice Material (Grades 1–6)
Close Reading - ANS✔✔ technique in which students read challenging texts multiple times, each
time for a different purpose.
Prosody - ANS✔✔ the patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
Narrative text - ANS✔✔ Tells a story.
Includes: fables, myths, science fiction, even some news reports, biographies, and
autobiographies.
Story Schema - ANS✔✔ A mental construct of what compromises a story
Story Grammar - ANS✔✔ in text analysis, a formal device or grammar used for specifying
relations among episodes in a story and to formulate rules for generating other stories.
I Chart Procedure - ANS✔✔ 3 steps: Planning, Interacting, and Integrating and Evaluating
Helpful for Critical Thinking
K-W-L Procedure - ANS✔✔ What I know, What I want to learn, and what I learned.
Directed Reading - ANS✔✔ procedure where you teach students to make predictions
continually as they read narrative texts.
(1) planning and setting goals for reading; (2) activating their background knowledge and using
textual cues to construct meaning from the text as they read; (3) self-monitoring their reading
, comprehension; (4) solving problems they experience while reading; and (5) self-evaluating
their progress. - ANS✔✔ Transactional Strategy Instruction (5 steps)
Helps with comprehension
Common Core State Standards - ANS✔✔ Argue that narrative is important, BUT students must
also develop skills for writing argument and persuasion that they can support.
Questioning the Author - ANS✔✔ a procedure that stimulates students to reflect on what an
author is trying to say in expository text that they read
Combined Text Books - ANS✔✔ Informational and narrative book
Kidzbiz Achieve 3000 - ANS✔✔ Software that gives articles of various reading levels and asks
Standardized tests questions with it.
Literacy-rich Environment - ANS✔✔ one that provides students having disabilities with
stimulation to take part in activities involving language and literacy during their everyday life
routines
Literacy examples in a classroom - ANS✔✔ printed labeled materials (schedule, calendar, etc.),
helping teacher change the room to any topic they are working on
supplementary texts - ANS✔✔ texts on the same subject or theme as the more difficult core
text.
Helps with those who have lower background knowledge and literacy levels
morphological units - ANS✔✔ the smallest grammatical units conveying different meanings
