Praxis 5205 exam study guide

Stages of Reading Development CORRECT ANSWER Emergent, Early, Transitional and Fluent Emergent Reading CORRECT ANSWER 1st stage: understanding concepts of print (picture books, not much text on a page, enjoy others reading to them, teachers should provide opportunities for these students to recognize and form upper and lowercase letters) early reading CORRECT ANSWER 2nd stage: decode and comprehend simple texts (more print than emergent readers, teachers should expose students to lots of genres) transitional reading CORRECT ANSWER 3rd stage: use of wide range of reading strategies to support comprehension of more complex texts ( both fiction and non-fiction, graphs, charts, teachers should teach about text structure and encourage to support responses with text evidence) fluent reading CORRECT ANSWER last stage: confidently reading and comprehending a wide range of complex texts independently (activate prior knowledge, pictures are only there to convey important information, automatically recognize high frequency words) social knowledge CORRECT ANSWER knowledge about social convention passed down within members of a community like greetings, manners and conversational behavior procedural knowledge CORRECT ANSWER knowledge applied to carry out procedural tasks like solving a complex math problem using a multistep algorithm