Praxis Elementary Education Content Knowledge 5018
Secrets Study Guide [2nd Edition]
Praxis Elementary Education 5018 — Questions 1–20
I. Reading & Language Arts
1. Which strategy helps students identify the main idea of a passage?
A) Skipping difficult sentences
B) Summarizing key points
C) Memorizing the text
D) Reading aloud only
✔ Correct Answer: B — Summarizing key points
Rationale: Summarization requires students to extract essential information, enhancing
comprehension of the main idea.
2. Which of the following is an example of an expository text?
A) A biography of Marie Curie
B) A fantasy novel
C) A poem about friendship
D) A fictional short story
✔ Correct Answer: A — Biography of Marie Curie
Rationale: Expository texts provide factual information or explain a topic clearly.
3. Which comprehension strategy encourages students to predict what will happen next?
A) Summarizing
B) Questioning
C) Visualizing
D) Predicting
✔ Correct Answer: D — Predicting
Rationale: Prediction engages prior knowledge and encourages active reading.
4. Which activity promotes phonemic awareness?
A) Identifying initial sounds in words
B) Reading silently
C) Copying sentences
D) Listening to a story only
✔ Correct Answer: A — Identifying initial sounds in words
Rationale: Phonemic awareness involves recognizing and manipulating individual sounds in words.
5. Which method helps students determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context?
A) Using dictionaries exclusively
B) Using context clues in sentences
C) Memorizing word lists
D) Ignoring unknown words
, ✔ Correct Answer: B — Using context clues
Rationale: Context clues allow students to infer word meaning within meaningful text.
II. Mathematics
6. What is 3/4 + 5/8?
A) 1 1/8
B) 1 3/8
C) 7/8
D) 1 1/2
✔ Correct Answer: B — 1 3/8
Rationale: Convert to a common denominator: 3/4 = 6/8 → 6/8 + 5/8 = 11/8 = 1 3/8.
7. A rectangle has a length of 10 cm and width of 4 cm. What is its perimeter?
A) 14 cm
B) 28 cm
C) 40 cm
D) 20 cm
✔ Correct Answer: B — 28 cm
Rationale: Perimeter = 2(length + width) → 2(10 + 4) = 28 cm.
8. Which property is illustrated by 7 × (2 × 3) = (7 × 2) × 3?
A) Commutative
B) Associative
C) Distributive
D) Identity
✔ Correct Answer: B — Associative property
Rationale: The associative property shows that grouping does not affect the product.
9. Which fraction is equivalent to 0.75?
A) 1/2
B) 2/3
C) 3/4
D) 4/5
✔ Correct Answer: C — 3/4
Rationale: 0.75 = 75/100 = 3/4.
10. A store sold 120 pencils. If 25% were red, how many red pencils were sold?
A) 25
B) 30
C) 35
D) 40
✔ Correct Answer: B — 30
Rationale: 120 × 0.25 = 30 pencils.
III. Science
Secrets Study Guide [2nd Edition]
Praxis Elementary Education 5018 — Questions 1–20
I. Reading & Language Arts
1. Which strategy helps students identify the main idea of a passage?
A) Skipping difficult sentences
B) Summarizing key points
C) Memorizing the text
D) Reading aloud only
✔ Correct Answer: B — Summarizing key points
Rationale: Summarization requires students to extract essential information, enhancing
comprehension of the main idea.
2. Which of the following is an example of an expository text?
A) A biography of Marie Curie
B) A fantasy novel
C) A poem about friendship
D) A fictional short story
✔ Correct Answer: A — Biography of Marie Curie
Rationale: Expository texts provide factual information or explain a topic clearly.
3. Which comprehension strategy encourages students to predict what will happen next?
A) Summarizing
B) Questioning
C) Visualizing
D) Predicting
✔ Correct Answer: D — Predicting
Rationale: Prediction engages prior knowledge and encourages active reading.
4. Which activity promotes phonemic awareness?
A) Identifying initial sounds in words
B) Reading silently
C) Copying sentences
D) Listening to a story only
✔ Correct Answer: A — Identifying initial sounds in words
Rationale: Phonemic awareness involves recognizing and manipulating individual sounds in words.
5. Which method helps students determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context?
A) Using dictionaries exclusively
B) Using context clues in sentences
C) Memorizing word lists
D) Ignoring unknown words
, ✔ Correct Answer: B — Using context clues
Rationale: Context clues allow students to infer word meaning within meaningful text.
II. Mathematics
6. What is 3/4 + 5/8?
A) 1 1/8
B) 1 3/8
C) 7/8
D) 1 1/2
✔ Correct Answer: B — 1 3/8
Rationale: Convert to a common denominator: 3/4 = 6/8 → 6/8 + 5/8 = 11/8 = 1 3/8.
7. A rectangle has a length of 10 cm and width of 4 cm. What is its perimeter?
A) 14 cm
B) 28 cm
C) 40 cm
D) 20 cm
✔ Correct Answer: B — 28 cm
Rationale: Perimeter = 2(length + width) → 2(10 + 4) = 28 cm.
8. Which property is illustrated by 7 × (2 × 3) = (7 × 2) × 3?
A) Commutative
B) Associative
C) Distributive
D) Identity
✔ Correct Answer: B — Associative property
Rationale: The associative property shows that grouping does not affect the product.
9. Which fraction is equivalent to 0.75?
A) 1/2
B) 2/3
C) 3/4
D) 4/5
✔ Correct Answer: C — 3/4
Rationale: 0.75 = 75/100 = 3/4.
10. A store sold 120 pencils. If 25% were red, how many red pencils were sold?
A) 25
B) 30
C) 35
D) 40
✔ Correct Answer: B — 30
Rationale: 120 × 0.25 = 30 pencils.
III. Science
