PRAXIS 5025: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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1. Mr. Roberts has a prekindergarten class of students who have just turned
four. He wants to make sure his students have ample opportunity for writing
practice to prepare for next year, but he also wants to ensure his strategies
are developmentally appropriate. Which of the following strategies should he
choose?
A. giving students a letter-writing practice workbook and insisting that ten
pages must be completed each day
B. conducting guided read-alouds where he asks students probing questions
about stories he reads to them
C. encouraging students to use writing in their daily center time, such as using
a notepad to take an order when pretending to be a waiter during dramatic
play
D. insisting that students spend more time at the art center than any other
center during free-choice center time: C. encouraging students to use writing in their daily center
time, such as using a notepad to take an order when pretending to be a waiter during dramatic play
2. Which of the following words has the onset italicized?
A. pl-ATE
B. BR-oom
C. in-TER-est
D. fair-Y: C. BR-oom
3. A prekindergarten teacher is planning a unit of instruction on letter sounds.
Which of the following describes the order in which the letter sounds should
be introduced to students?
A. introduce the most challenging sounds first
, PRAXIS 5025: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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B. introduce the sounds that make up the child's name first
C. introduce the sounds that have the greatest frequency first
D. introduce one sound per month until they are all mastered: C. introduce the sounds
that have the greatest frequency first
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4. Mr. Scott writes the following words on the board: blimp, roar, and grin. He
asks his class to make a new word out of each word by removing a part of the
existing word. Which of the following concepts is the teacher trying to develop
in his students?
A. the alphabetic principle
B. phoneme deletion
C. phoneme substitution
D. phoneme segmentation: B. phoneme deletion
5. Which of the following is a non-decodable word?
A. bread
B. fly
C. what
D. plan: C. what
6. A second-grade teacher notices that one of her students has lost interest in
reading or speaking in her home language. To encourage her, she asks for the
student's "help" to read a short blurb in a newspaper in the student's home
language. Why is the teacher most likely doing this?
A. She wants to assess the student's oral fluency in her home language.
B. She wants to encourage the student to read more informational texts.
C. She wants to encourage the student to maintain her biliteracy.
D. She wants the student to practice prosody and rate in her home language.: C.
She wants to encourage the student to maintain her biliteracy.
7. Which of the following concepts should be taught alongside phonics to en-
sure that students will be able to read quickly and fluently?
, PRAXIS 5025: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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A. print awareness
B. sight word recognition
C. stroke order
D. spelling: B. sight word recognition
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2025 UPDATE | 100% CORRECT
1. Mr. Roberts has a prekindergarten class of students who have just turned
four. He wants to make sure his students have ample opportunity for writing
practice to prepare for next year, but he also wants to ensure his strategies
are developmentally appropriate. Which of the following strategies should he
choose?
A. giving students a letter-writing practice workbook and insisting that ten
pages must be completed each day
B. conducting guided read-alouds where he asks students probing questions
about stories he reads to them
C. encouraging students to use writing in their daily center time, such as using
a notepad to take an order when pretending to be a waiter during dramatic
play
D. insisting that students spend more time at the art center than any other
center during free-choice center time: C. encouraging students to use writing in their daily center
time, such as using a notepad to take an order when pretending to be a waiter during dramatic play
2. Which of the following words has the onset italicized?
A. pl-ATE
B. BR-oom
C. in-TER-est
D. fair-Y: C. BR-oom
3. A prekindergarten teacher is planning a unit of instruction on letter sounds.
Which of the following describes the order in which the letter sounds should
be introduced to students?
A. introduce the most challenging sounds first
, PRAXIS 5025: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2025 UPDATE | 100% CORRECT
B. introduce the sounds that make up the child's name first
C. introduce the sounds that have the greatest frequency first
D. introduce one sound per month until they are all mastered: C. introduce the sounds
that have the greatest frequency first
, PRAXIS 5025: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2025 UPDATE | 100% CORRECT
4. Mr. Scott writes the following words on the board: blimp, roar, and grin. He
asks his class to make a new word out of each word by removing a part of the
existing word. Which of the following concepts is the teacher trying to develop
in his students?
A. the alphabetic principle
B. phoneme deletion
C. phoneme substitution
D. phoneme segmentation: B. phoneme deletion
5. Which of the following is a non-decodable word?
A. bread
B. fly
C. what
D. plan: C. what
6. A second-grade teacher notices that one of her students has lost interest in
reading or speaking in her home language. To encourage her, she asks for the
student's "help" to read a short blurb in a newspaper in the student's home
language. Why is the teacher most likely doing this?
A. She wants to assess the student's oral fluency in her home language.
B. She wants to encourage the student to read more informational texts.
C. She wants to encourage the student to maintain her biliteracy.
D. She wants the student to practice prosody and rate in her home language.: C.
She wants to encourage the student to maintain her biliteracy.
7. Which of the following concepts should be taught alongside phonics to en-
sure that students will be able to read quickly and fluently?
, PRAXIS 5025: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2025 UPDATE | 100% CORRECT
A. print awareness
B. sight word recognition
C. stroke order
D. spelling: B. sight word recognition
