PRAXIS 5206 TEACHING
READING K-12 2026 WITH
ACCURATE AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Four stages of reading development - answer-Emergent reading, Early reading ,
transitional reading and Fluent reading
Emergent reading - answer-readers develop pre-reading behaviors and begin
understanding concepts of print.
Early reading - answer-Early readers use a combination of reading strategies and cueing
systems to decode and comprehend simple texts.
Transitional reading - answer-use a wide range of reading strategies to support
comprehension of more complex texts.
Fluent Reading - answer-Fluent readers confidently read and comprehend a wide range
of texts.
Characteristics of Emergent stage of reading - answer-- Exhibit reading skills that are
strong predictors of future reading success.
-Starts Interacting with texts without actually reading the words.
-Understand the concepts of print. e.g correctly holding books, understands that print
holds meaning, They begin to identify capital and lowercase letters, and begin to
understand the relationship between letters and sounds. They understand that letters
are combined to form words and words are combined to form sentences.
- they develop oral language skills( phonological awareness skills in rhyming and
alliteration)
- They develop phonemic awareness skills including the ability to blend, segment, and
manipulate phonemes within words.
, Emergent readers enjoy - answer-- having others read to them.
- They respond to texts read aloud by making predictions, retelling events and other
activities .
- They use illustrations to make sense of texts.
Emergent Readers Texts - answer--Texts with pictures or illustrations that strongly
support the print.
- Limited amount of text on each page
- Use repetitive words
- include high frequency and decodable words
-Use simple sentence structure
- Focus on familiar topics that can activate readers prior knowledge
- Print should be large and contain wide spaces between letters and lines of text.
Characteristics of Early reading - answer-- Readers start to use graphophonemic,
syntactic and semantic cues.
- start to self monitor their reading
-expand their vocabulary and word recognition skills by identifying high frequency words
-Use picture cues, letter sound relationships and repetition to decode unknown words
homonyms or homophones - answer-words that sound alike but have different spellings
and meanings (sale/sail)
Dipthongs - answer-A blend of vowel sounds in one syllable (oi, oy, ow, ou)
Rimes - answer-Vowels and consonants at the end of a syllable (end in the word blend,
ap in the word tap)
READING K-12 2026 WITH
ACCURATE AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Four stages of reading development - answer-Emergent reading, Early reading ,
transitional reading and Fluent reading
Emergent reading - answer-readers develop pre-reading behaviors and begin
understanding concepts of print.
Early reading - answer-Early readers use a combination of reading strategies and cueing
systems to decode and comprehend simple texts.
Transitional reading - answer-use a wide range of reading strategies to support
comprehension of more complex texts.
Fluent Reading - answer-Fluent readers confidently read and comprehend a wide range
of texts.
Characteristics of Emergent stage of reading - answer-- Exhibit reading skills that are
strong predictors of future reading success.
-Starts Interacting with texts without actually reading the words.
-Understand the concepts of print. e.g correctly holding books, understands that print
holds meaning, They begin to identify capital and lowercase letters, and begin to
understand the relationship between letters and sounds. They understand that letters
are combined to form words and words are combined to form sentences.
- they develop oral language skills( phonological awareness skills in rhyming and
alliteration)
- They develop phonemic awareness skills including the ability to blend, segment, and
manipulate phonemes within words.
, Emergent readers enjoy - answer-- having others read to them.
- They respond to texts read aloud by making predictions, retelling events and other
activities .
- They use illustrations to make sense of texts.
Emergent Readers Texts - answer--Texts with pictures or illustrations that strongly
support the print.
- Limited amount of text on each page
- Use repetitive words
- include high frequency and decodable words
-Use simple sentence structure
- Focus on familiar topics that can activate readers prior knowledge
- Print should be large and contain wide spaces between letters and lines of text.
Characteristics of Early reading - answer-- Readers start to use graphophonemic,
syntactic and semantic cues.
- start to self monitor their reading
-expand their vocabulary and word recognition skills by identifying high frequency words
-Use picture cues, letter sound relationships and repetition to decode unknown words
homonyms or homophones - answer-words that sound alike but have different spellings
and meanings (sale/sail)
Dipthongs - answer-A blend of vowel sounds in one syllable (oi, oy, ow, ou)
Rimes - answer-Vowels and consonants at the end of a syllable (end in the word blend,
ap in the word tap)
