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Praxis 5205 Teaching Reading Study Guide.
Phonics - answer✔the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent sounds
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The rules and patterns (digraph, Magic e, vowel sounds...)
Segmenting (phonemic awareness) - answer✔Break apart into individual sounds
Fish- /f/i/s/h/
Blending (phonological awareness) - answer✔Saying the word after each individual sound is
heard
Substitution (phonological awareness) - answer✔Switch one phoneme for another to make a
new word
Deletion (phonological awareness) - answer✔Remove individual/blended sounds to identify
new words
Having students create original sentences using the words - answer✔Helps to gain the deepest
level of vocabulary knowledge for new words
CVC pattern - answer✔when a vowel comes between 2 consonants, it usually represents a short
vowel sound.
Example: sat, ran, let, pen, win ,fit, hot, mop, sun & cut
Digraphs - answer✔two letters that represent one speech sound, such as "ch" for /ch/ in chin or
"ea" for /e/ in bread.
short vowels - answer✔Vowels you hear in the middle of a word; usually follow the VCV
pattern
long vowels - answer✔the vowel sounds that are also names of the alphabet letters.
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Think Aloud Strategy - answer✔(strategy) the teacher (or later the students) verbalize their
thoughts while reading aloud including predictions, questions, opinions, and connections to self,
text, and world
when teachers model what they are thinking as they read, they can help students develop visual
images and link new information to what students already know
Miscue Analysis - answer✔A way of acquiring insight into children's reading strategies by
studying the mistakes they make when reading aloud.
Semantic Feature Analysis - answer✔A strategy that helps teachers focus students' attention on
vocabulary and increase their sensitivity to language, technique that can help children understand
the uniqueness of a word as well as its relationship to other words.
Running Record - answer✔a tool for scoring and analyzing a student's reading ability.
phonological awareness - answer✔an "umbrella" term that includes phonemic awareness, or
awareness of words at the phoneme (sound) level. It also includes an awareness of word units
larger than the phoneme.
Phoneme Isolation - answer✔Recognizing individual sounds in a word (e.g., /p/ is the first
sound in pan).
phoneme blending - answer✔is the ability to hear the individual sounds in a word, put the
sounds together, and say the word that is made. For example, these sounds may be said to a
student -/sss/, /aaa/, /nnn/, /d/ - and the student will say the word "sand".
phoneme segmentation - answer✔breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them
Cornell Notes - answer✔a system of notetaking that involves writing sentence summaries on
the right side of the page with key words and topics indicated on the left
Asking about word choice - answer✔Encourages students to think about the author's intentions
Asking about special characteristics - answer✔Uncovers any misconceptions when
understanding terms
Morphology - answer✔the study of words and their parts. Morphemes, like prefixes, suffixes
and base words, are defined as the smallest meaningful units of meaning
context clues - answer✔Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of
an unknown word
Letter-Sound Correspondence - answer✔means recognizing the corresponding sound of a
specific letter when that letter is seen or heard.
Praxis 5205 Teaching Reading Study Guide.
Phonics - answer✔the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent sounds
*print*
The rules and patterns (digraph, Magic e, vowel sounds...)
Segmenting (phonemic awareness) - answer✔Break apart into individual sounds
Fish- /f/i/s/h/
Blending (phonological awareness) - answer✔Saying the word after each individual sound is
heard
Substitution (phonological awareness) - answer✔Switch one phoneme for another to make a
new word
Deletion (phonological awareness) - answer✔Remove individual/blended sounds to identify
new words
Having students create original sentences using the words - answer✔Helps to gain the deepest
level of vocabulary knowledge for new words
CVC pattern - answer✔when a vowel comes between 2 consonants, it usually represents a short
vowel sound.
Example: sat, ran, let, pen, win ,fit, hot, mop, sun & cut
Digraphs - answer✔two letters that represent one speech sound, such as "ch" for /ch/ in chin or
"ea" for /e/ in bread.
short vowels - answer✔Vowels you hear in the middle of a word; usually follow the VCV
pattern
long vowels - answer✔the vowel sounds that are also names of the alphabet letters.
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Think Aloud Strategy - answer✔(strategy) the teacher (or later the students) verbalize their
thoughts while reading aloud including predictions, questions, opinions, and connections to self,
text, and world
when teachers model what they are thinking as they read, they can help students develop visual
images and link new information to what students already know
Miscue Analysis - answer✔A way of acquiring insight into children's reading strategies by
studying the mistakes they make when reading aloud.
Semantic Feature Analysis - answer✔A strategy that helps teachers focus students' attention on
vocabulary and increase their sensitivity to language, technique that can help children understand
the uniqueness of a word as well as its relationship to other words.
Running Record - answer✔a tool for scoring and analyzing a student's reading ability.
phonological awareness - answer✔an "umbrella" term that includes phonemic awareness, or
awareness of words at the phoneme (sound) level. It also includes an awareness of word units
larger than the phoneme.
Phoneme Isolation - answer✔Recognizing individual sounds in a word (e.g., /p/ is the first
sound in pan).
phoneme blending - answer✔is the ability to hear the individual sounds in a word, put the
sounds together, and say the word that is made. For example, these sounds may be said to a
student -/sss/, /aaa/, /nnn/, /d/ - and the student will say the word "sand".
phoneme segmentation - answer✔breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them
Cornell Notes - answer✔a system of notetaking that involves writing sentence summaries on
the right side of the page with key words and topics indicated on the left
Asking about word choice - answer✔Encourages students to think about the author's intentions
Asking about special characteristics - answer✔Uncovers any misconceptions when
understanding terms
Morphology - answer✔the study of words and their parts. Morphemes, like prefixes, suffixes
and base words, are defined as the smallest meaningful units of meaning
context clues - answer✔Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of
an unknown word
Letter-Sound Correspondence - answer✔means recognizing the corresponding sound of a
specific letter when that letter is seen or heard.
