Praxis 5205 Teaching Reading Exam Study
Guide.
Phonological awareness - answer✔recognizing spoken parts of words
Elkonin boxes help teach students this
Morphology - answer✔the study of words and their parts
onset - answer✔An onset is the initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable
rime - answer✔part of the word or syllable that includes the vowel and remaining consonants
phoneme - answer✔units of sounds in words
p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat
Elkonin boxes help teach students this
stop sounds - answer✔quick sounds that are made by blocking and releasing air flow /p/ /t/ /k/
/b/ /d/ /g/
Elkonin Boxes - answer✔help emerging readers build phonological awareness. It segments
words into individual sounds
appositive - answer✔a noun phrase after another noun phrase
"My husband, Ryan," likes to code.
Ryan is the appositive
antecedent - answer✔a noun that gives meaning to a pronoun.
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Barry is cooking a special dinner tonight. I hope he doesn't forget the dessert.
Barry is the antecedent
phoneme-grapheme correspondence - answer✔ability to match a sound or phoneme to a written
representation
basically matching a letter to a spoken sound
consonant diagraphs - answer✔pairs of consonants that create a single sound
ch, sh, th, wh
blends - answer✔words made by putting two different word parts together
deletion skill - answer✔identifying how a word would sound if a sound was removed
Teaching Phonological Awareness - answer✔practicing counting phonemes through the
clapping it out method
manipulatives for phonemes ( colored tiles)
rhyming bingo
elkonin box
Orthographic Mapping - answer✔The process readers use to store written words for immediate,
effortless retrieval.
teach spelling patterns
count sounds in words
segmenting - answer✔identifying individual phonemes in a word (sounds)