PRAXIS 7002 ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ A kindergarten teacher plans a lesson designed to give students guided
practice in learning a phonological awareness skill. Having students
participate in which of the following activities best meets the teacher's
goal. Answer: A. Asking students to follow along as the teacher moves a
finger from left to right while orally reading a line of text in a picture
book
B.Having students say the word "airplane" and then asking them to say it
again without pronouncing "air"
C.Distributing a set of plastic letters to students and having them use the
manipulatives to form decodable words
D.Cutting a student's name card into individual letters and modeling
how to put the letters together to form the name
Option (B) is correct. Phonological awareness refers to a student's ability
to identify and manipulate units of oral language. The ability to delete a
syllable in a spoken word, such as saying "plane" when "air" is deleted
from the word "airplane," is an example of a phonological awareness
skill.
◉ A second-grade teacher selects a picture book that retells the well-
known fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears to read aloud to the
class. Following the first oral reading of the text, the teacher distributes a
graphic organizer with a set of questions for students to answer as the
text is read again. During the second reading, the teacher pauses at
,different parts of the story and asks students to independently answer
one of the questions related to that part of the story on the work sheet. A
portion of the graphic organizer the teacher uses is represented by the
following table.
QuestionThe Story SaysI SayAnd So I Believe...Why did Goldilocks
break Baby Bear's chair?
The teacher's instructional method best engages students in which of the
following thinking processes related to successful reading
comprehension. Answer: C.Locating the author's text clues and using
prior knowledge to construct meaning that goes beyond what is literally
stated
C. Locating the author's text clues and using prior knowledge to
construct meaning that goes beyond what is literally stated
◉ A first-grade teacher works with small groups of students to teach
them how to develop their writing skills. Which of the following
methods best fosters the students' ability to use correct mechanics, such
as punctuation and capitalization, in their own writing. Answer:
D.Modeling how and when to use punctuation and capitalization during
writing instruction
D.Modeling how and when to use punctuation and capitalization during
writing instruction
, ◉ Which of the following phonemic manipulations is the most complex
and is generally developed last by most students. Answer: A.Changing
the /m/ in the word "mouse" to /h/
Option (A) is correct. This is an example of phoneme substitution, which
is the most advanced phonological awareness skill.
◉ A third-grade teacher's reading instruction includes sources from
multiple content areas. During a science lesson, students are reading a
book about plants that contains many new and difficult vocabulary
words, such as "chlorophyll," "germinate," and "photosynthesis." Which
of the following teaching activities will best help the students develop an
understanding of the new words. Answer: Option (B) is correct. Direct
instruction is the best and most highly recommended method for helping
students learn totally new Tier 3 words from specific content areas. The
meanings of such words are well determined and consistent and can be
illustrated by using robust contexts and multimedia methods.
B.Planning direct instruction that uses multimedia to introduce words in
rich contexts
◉ Which of the following strategies best gives a teacher an opportunity
to evaluate beginning readers' comprehension of a literary passage.
Answer: A. Posing clarifying questions during shared reading of the
passage
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ A kindergarten teacher plans a lesson designed to give students guided
practice in learning a phonological awareness skill. Having students
participate in which of the following activities best meets the teacher's
goal. Answer: A. Asking students to follow along as the teacher moves a
finger from left to right while orally reading a line of text in a picture
book
B.Having students say the word "airplane" and then asking them to say it
again without pronouncing "air"
C.Distributing a set of plastic letters to students and having them use the
manipulatives to form decodable words
D.Cutting a student's name card into individual letters and modeling
how to put the letters together to form the name
Option (B) is correct. Phonological awareness refers to a student's ability
to identify and manipulate units of oral language. The ability to delete a
syllable in a spoken word, such as saying "plane" when "air" is deleted
from the word "airplane," is an example of a phonological awareness
skill.
◉ A second-grade teacher selects a picture book that retells the well-
known fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears to read aloud to the
class. Following the first oral reading of the text, the teacher distributes a
graphic organizer with a set of questions for students to answer as the
text is read again. During the second reading, the teacher pauses at
,different parts of the story and asks students to independently answer
one of the questions related to that part of the story on the work sheet. A
portion of the graphic organizer the teacher uses is represented by the
following table.
QuestionThe Story SaysI SayAnd So I Believe...Why did Goldilocks
break Baby Bear's chair?
The teacher's instructional method best engages students in which of the
following thinking processes related to successful reading
comprehension. Answer: C.Locating the author's text clues and using
prior knowledge to construct meaning that goes beyond what is literally
stated
C. Locating the author's text clues and using prior knowledge to
construct meaning that goes beyond what is literally stated
◉ A first-grade teacher works with small groups of students to teach
them how to develop their writing skills. Which of the following
methods best fosters the students' ability to use correct mechanics, such
as punctuation and capitalization, in their own writing. Answer:
D.Modeling how and when to use punctuation and capitalization during
writing instruction
D.Modeling how and when to use punctuation and capitalization during
writing instruction
, ◉ Which of the following phonemic manipulations is the most complex
and is generally developed last by most students. Answer: A.Changing
the /m/ in the word "mouse" to /h/
Option (A) is correct. This is an example of phoneme substitution, which
is the most advanced phonological awareness skill.
◉ A third-grade teacher's reading instruction includes sources from
multiple content areas. During a science lesson, students are reading a
book about plants that contains many new and difficult vocabulary
words, such as "chlorophyll," "germinate," and "photosynthesis." Which
of the following teaching activities will best help the students develop an
understanding of the new words. Answer: Option (B) is correct. Direct
instruction is the best and most highly recommended method for helping
students learn totally new Tier 3 words from specific content areas. The
meanings of such words are well determined and consistent and can be
illustrated by using robust contexts and multimedia methods.
B.Planning direct instruction that uses multimedia to introduce words in
rich contexts
◉ Which of the following strategies best gives a teacher an opportunity
to evaluate beginning readers' comprehension of a literary passage.
Answer: A. Posing clarifying questions during shared reading of the
passage
