Praxis 5025: Early Childhood Education Questions and Answers Graded A+

Praxis 5025: Early Childhood Education Questions and Answers Graded A+ 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 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 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 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 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 Which of the following is a non-decodable word? A. bread B. fly C. what D. plan C. what 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. Which of the following concepts should be taught alongside phonics to ensure that students will be able to read quickly and fluently? A. print awareness B. sight word recognition C. stroke order D. spelling B. sight word recognition Jenine is a second-grade student targeted for extra reading practice. One day, the teacher listens to her read a paragraph out loud and notices that Jenine is reading very slowly. Which of the following parts of fluency does Jenine need help with? A. rate B. prosody C. accuracy D. phonemes A. rate Mrs. Perez is teaching her first-grade class about meter in poetry. Which of the following activities would be most appropriate to help her students understand this concept? A. independently label each line of the poem with an A, B, C