PRAXIS Elementary Education Multiple
Subjects: Reading and Language Arts
(5002) Form 2
Phonological awareness primarily affects literacy skills through its impact on
students’ ability to
A.imitate and produce basic sentence structures
B.use context clues to confirm understanding
C.read with appropriate rate and expression
D.decode multisyllable words in a text
D.decode multisyllable words in a text
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have this wish I wish tonight.
A first-grade teacher reads the poem to the students. Then the students do a
choral reading of the poem with the teacher, and the teacher points to each word
as the students say it.
Which of the following best describes the objective of the choral reading activity?
A.Supporting sight word recognition
,B.Modeling automaticity and prosody
C.Introducing segments and blends
D.Demonstrating comprehension strategies
B.Modeling automaticity and prosody
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have this wish I wish tonight.
The highlighted words could be best used in a phonics lesson on
A.open syllables
B.r-controlled vowels
C.irregular vowel families
D.VCCe words
C.irregular vowel families
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
,Have this wish I wish tonight.
Which of the following words in the poem is a sight word that cannot be decoded
using conventional rules?
A.Star
B.See
C.May
D.Have
D.Have
Which of the following multisyllabic words is correctly segmented into its
phonemes?
A.Dif-fer-ent
B.St-op-s-ign
C.R-e-s-t-a-u-r-a-n-t
D.C-are-f-u-ll-y
D.C-are-f-u-ll-y
To increase comprehension, a reading teacher suggests that a student read a
selection from a text repeatedly, while focusing on proper intonation. The
intervention is appropriate for helping the student to
, A.self-monitor for meaning
B.decode unknown words
C.avoid reading through punctuation
D.avoid substituting an incorrect word
C.avoid reading through punctuation
Which of the following groups lists words that are best categorized as
kindergarten sight words?
A.Bite, when, I, car
B.Am, to, the, on
C.Dog, jump, are, toes
D.Jail, tram, see, from
B.Am, to, the, on
A teacher is working with a group of students to help them achieve greater
phonological awareness. The teacher writes the following on a whiteboard to
begin a discussion.
(picture on back)
Which of the following concepts is the teacher demonstrating for the students?
A.Decoding words by using syllabication
Subjects: Reading and Language Arts
(5002) Form 2
Phonological awareness primarily affects literacy skills through its impact on
students’ ability to
A.imitate and produce basic sentence structures
B.use context clues to confirm understanding
C.read with appropriate rate and expression
D.decode multisyllable words in a text
D.decode multisyllable words in a text
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have this wish I wish tonight.
A first-grade teacher reads the poem to the students. Then the students do a
choral reading of the poem with the teacher, and the teacher points to each word
as the students say it.
Which of the following best describes the objective of the choral reading activity?
A.Supporting sight word recognition
,B.Modeling automaticity and prosody
C.Introducing segments and blends
D.Demonstrating comprehension strategies
B.Modeling automaticity and prosody
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have this wish I wish tonight.
The highlighted words could be best used in a phonics lesson on
A.open syllables
B.r-controlled vowels
C.irregular vowel families
D.VCCe words
C.irregular vowel families
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
,Have this wish I wish tonight.
Which of the following words in the poem is a sight word that cannot be decoded
using conventional rules?
A.Star
B.See
C.May
D.Have
D.Have
Which of the following multisyllabic words is correctly segmented into its
phonemes?
A.Dif-fer-ent
B.St-op-s-ign
C.R-e-s-t-a-u-r-a-n-t
D.C-are-f-u-ll-y
D.C-are-f-u-ll-y
To increase comprehension, a reading teacher suggests that a student read a
selection from a text repeatedly, while focusing on proper intonation. The
intervention is appropriate for helping the student to
, A.self-monitor for meaning
B.decode unknown words
C.avoid reading through punctuation
D.avoid substituting an incorrect word
C.avoid reading through punctuation
Which of the following groups lists words that are best categorized as
kindergarten sight words?
A.Bite, when, I, car
B.Am, to, the, on
C.Dog, jump, are, toes
D.Jail, tram, see, from
B.Am, to, the, on
A teacher is working with a group of students to help them achieve greater
phonological awareness. The teacher writes the following on a whiteboard to
begin a discussion.
(picture on back)
Which of the following concepts is the teacher demonstrating for the students?
A.Decoding words by using syllabication
