Praxis Reading Practice Test Questions and Answers

Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates behavior of an emergent reader? A student opens a familiar book and recalls enough of the language and plot to pretend to read it without actually identifying any of the words. A first-grade class sorts word cards into categories provided by the teacher. The chart below shows the results of the sort. CV CVC CVCE CVVC to bat make sail so sat like bait be got kite mail Which of the following skills does the chart best reinforce? Knowledge of vowel patterns Teacher: What is the first sound in van? Student: The first sound in van is /v/. The teacher is assessing the student's ability to do which of the following phonemic awareness tasks? Phoneme isolation Which of the following strategies is best to encourage high school students to actively participate during reading instruction? Incorporating students' interests and reading abilities into present instruction Which of the following instructional approaches would best help middle school students understand the differences between narrative and expository genres? Analyzing features of text such as chapter titles, table of contexts, and glossaries Before a fourth-grade class reads an article on honeybees, Ms. Stewart displays a word cloud created from vocabulary in the article. She asks the class the following questions. •"What do you think are the important words from the article?" •"How do these words go together?" •"What words do you already know?" As the students answer, Ms. Stewart has them refer to the word cloud characteristics to support their answers. The best reason for using the strategy is to help students learn to build academic vocabulary by making connections between key words A student has completed the following word sort: Flaps Table Cat Fail Mask Aim Slab Mats