Praxis II Teaching Reading Questions and Answers Already Passed

Praxis II Teaching Reading Questions and Answers Already Passed 4 Ways to build Phonemic Awareness? 1. Tell Rhymes 2. ABCs & read alphabet books 3. Alliteration 4. Give the ability to sound and blend their letters (slap, trap) 3 levels of comprehension? 1. Literal 2. Interpretive 3. Applied 5 Steps in the Reading Process: 1. Pre-Reading 2. Reading 3. Responding 4. Exploring 5. Applying 5 Systems of Language: 1. Sound- Phonology 2. Meaning -Semantics (vocabulary) 3. Word Order - Syntax 4. Grammar - Morphology 5. Social Uses -Pragmatics 6 thinking processes: 1. Connect 2. Organize 3. Image 4. Predict 5. Self monitor 6.Generalize 7 Crucial Understandings About Print 1. Children who have had many print experiences know why we read & write. 2. Greater knowledge to make sense of the info they read. 3. Understand the conventions & jargon of print. 4. Have higher levels of phonemic awareness. 5. Can read some important-to-them words. 6. Know some letter names and sounds. 7. Are eager and confident in their reading and writing How many phonemes are there in the English language? 44 Accuracy and Fluency affect the ability to... read smoothly and quickly. Activating prior knowledge use of a concrete experience or object pretesting discussions anticipation guides Affixes subordinate additions to rood words with grammar-like functions. They can either be added to the beginning (prefixes) or the end (suffixes) Alliteration: Producing groups of words that begin with the same initial sound; alliteration and rhyming are at the beginning of the phonological awareness continuum. Allusion an indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or event considered to be known to the reader Analogy Based Phonics Children learn to use parts of word families they know to identify words that have similar parts.(root words, suffixes, prefixes) Analytic Phonics Learn to understand letters-sound relationships in previously learned words. They do not pronounce words in isolation. Applied Level of Comprehension using information to express opinions and form new ideas. Assessment Tool Categories 1. Student Profile 2. Auditory Discrimination and Phoneme Awareness 3. Emerging Literacy assessment 4. Sight Word Assessment 5. Formal Reading Assessment Assonance repetition of a vowel sound Authentic