Early Childhood Education (5025) – Praxis Final Exam Questions and Answers

Which of the following is most effective in helping young children develop phonological awareness? A. Singing songs with simple rhymes B. Singing the alphabet song C. Using large markers to print letters D. Looking for environmental print A. Singing songs with simple rhymes A first-grade student, Kyle, has drawn an elaborate picture of a garden in his journal and has written: "I LK RD FLRS." Kyle's sentence suggests that an appropriate next step in his development as a writer would be learning to... A. print lowercase letters B. use medial vowel sounds C. blend consonant sounds D. recognize common sight words B. use medial vowel sound Graphic novels are effective for third-grade students because they... A. provide interesting plots for advanced readers B. allow development of visual and verbal literacy C. demonstrate the use of similes and metaphors D. display charts and graphs in a variety of ways B. allow development of visual and verbal literacy Which of the following best describes a student at the semiphonetic stage of spelling development? A. Places vowels in syllables B. Imitates writing by copying random strings of letters C. Understands word structure D. Recognizes that sounds in words are represented by letters D. Recognizes that sounds in words are represented by letters A kindergarten teacher opens a book to the middle of the story and asks a student, "Where on this page should I begin reading?" It is most likely that the teacher is attempting to evaluate the student's A. ability to draw inferences from text B. phonological knowledge C. concepts about print D. understanding of syntax C. concepts about print A teacher gives each student in a class a list containing the words "whale," "three," "ship," and "chew." Then the teacher says, "Circle the two letters in each word that go together to make the new sounds we have been learning about." The exercise can most appropriately be used to assess the students' ability to recognize which of the following? A. Consonant blends B. Double vowel sounds C. Short vowel sounds D. Consonant digraphs D.Consonant digraphs