Praxis Early Childhood Education 5025 Questions
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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 ANS A
** 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 ANS B
Option (B) is correct. Kyle's written work indicates that he does not use vowels between consonants.
He seems to know the alphabet, and he now needs to include more of the sounds that are actually in
the words he writes. He can be taught to do this by saying words slowly or stretching words and
hearing the vowels, such as the /i/ in like or the /e/ in red.
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 ANS B
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 ANS D
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 ANS C
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 ANS D
** Learning to differentiate among words that have common roots by looking at the modifications
that result when prefixes or suffixes (such as "pre-," "un-," "dis-," "-tive," "-tion," and "-ment") are
added to known roots is accomplished through the use of
A.morphological analysis
B.configuration cues
C.contextual clues
D.phonemic analysis ANS A
Option (A) is correct. Morphology is the study of morphemes, which are words, word stems, and
affixes, basically the units of language one up from phonemes.
Which of the following students composes both sentences as simple sentences?
,A.Mario: At school. Everyone does work.
B.Jackson: He played at the park. Mom went to the house.
C.Anna: She's smiling because the dog came back. After he came back, he wanted food.
D.Jacquelyn: Drive fast! We'll be late if we don't hurry. ANS B
** Which of the following is the most appropriate time to encourage young children to start writing?
A.As soon as they can hold a crayon or marker
B.When they first recognize the speech-print relationship
C.After they have learned left-to-right orientation
D.When they show they can follow instructions ANS A
Option (A) is correct. As soon as children can hold a crayon or marker, they should be provided with
opportunities to make scribbles, marks, letters, and pictures. According to Lev Vygotsky, when
children draw and make marks, they are developing an awareness of written language and can then
interact with other more competent writers in their environment. When children pretend to write, they
are learning to use symbols to communicate their ideas, and this is the essence of being a writer and a
reader.
A class is reading a story in which the main character is facing a dilemma. Which of the following
activities is most likely to encourage the students to think ahead and collaboratively generate
solutions to the character's dilemma?
A.Categorizing the characters in the book into groups of major and minor importance
B.Having students independently make a list of five possible solutions
C.Showing the students a video version of the story
D.Having students work in small groups to role-play possible solutions ANS D
** A teacher notices that a student has written the words "goed" and "breaked" in a story. Which of
the following best describes the error the student is making?
A.Applying a wrong verb tense
B.Using a compound predicate
C.Using suffixes in a novel way
, D.Overapplying a recently learned rule ANS D
Option (D) is correct. The student in the scenario has learned how to form the past tense of a verb by
adding "ed" to the present tense. However, the student has not yet internalized that there are
exceptions to the rule, resulting in "breaked" rather than "broke," and "goed" rather than "went."
The "ake" in the words "bake" and "snake" is an example of which of the following?
A.A phoneme-grapheme relationship
B.A long-vowel /a/ digraph
C.A morpheme
D.A rime ANS D
Third-grade students are creating a story map as they read about the donkey Sylvester, who has
turned into a rock. The most important benefit of the story-mapping activity is that it will help the
students
A.improve their comprehension of the story by organizing and sequencing events
B.make connections to other characters who have solved a problem
C.develop a vocabulary they can use in writing their own stories
D.understand the essential features of a problem and its solution ANS A
** Which of the following best explains why it is necessary to teach unfamiliar, academic vocabulary
to students who are English-language learners before they are asked to read a passage in a nonfiction
text?
A.Such vocabulary is likely to be concrete and easy to illustrate.
B.Such vocabulary is appealing to visual and kinesthetic learners.
C.Such vocabulary is likely to be similar to words in the students' first languages.
D.Such vocabulary is not often used during informal conversations. ANS D
Option (D) is correct. Academic language is that used in school and books in the content areas and is
usually field-specific. It is not the everyday language that children use. Therefore, a teacher's
planning should include activities that will help students learn to read, recognize, and use such words
with confidence.
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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 ANS A
** 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 ANS B
Option (B) is correct. Kyle's written work indicates that he does not use vowels between consonants.
He seems to know the alphabet, and he now needs to include more of the sounds that are actually in
the words he writes. He can be taught to do this by saying words slowly or stretching words and
hearing the vowels, such as the /i/ in like or the /e/ in red.
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 ANS B
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 ANS D
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 ANS C
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 ANS D
** Learning to differentiate among words that have common roots by looking at the modifications
that result when prefixes or suffixes (such as "pre-," "un-," "dis-," "-tive," "-tion," and "-ment") are
added to known roots is accomplished through the use of
A.morphological analysis
B.configuration cues
C.contextual clues
D.phonemic analysis ANS A
Option (A) is correct. Morphology is the study of morphemes, which are words, word stems, and
affixes, basically the units of language one up from phonemes.
Which of the following students composes both sentences as simple sentences?
,A.Mario: At school. Everyone does work.
B.Jackson: He played at the park. Mom went to the house.
C.Anna: She's smiling because the dog came back. After he came back, he wanted food.
D.Jacquelyn: Drive fast! We'll be late if we don't hurry. ANS B
** Which of the following is the most appropriate time to encourage young children to start writing?
A.As soon as they can hold a crayon or marker
B.When they first recognize the speech-print relationship
C.After they have learned left-to-right orientation
D.When they show they can follow instructions ANS A
Option (A) is correct. As soon as children can hold a crayon or marker, they should be provided with
opportunities to make scribbles, marks, letters, and pictures. According to Lev Vygotsky, when
children draw and make marks, they are developing an awareness of written language and can then
interact with other more competent writers in their environment. When children pretend to write, they
are learning to use symbols to communicate their ideas, and this is the essence of being a writer and a
reader.
A class is reading a story in which the main character is facing a dilemma. Which of the following
activities is most likely to encourage the students to think ahead and collaboratively generate
solutions to the character's dilemma?
A.Categorizing the characters in the book into groups of major and minor importance
B.Having students independently make a list of five possible solutions
C.Showing the students a video version of the story
D.Having students work in small groups to role-play possible solutions ANS D
** A teacher notices that a student has written the words "goed" and "breaked" in a story. Which of
the following best describes the error the student is making?
A.Applying a wrong verb tense
B.Using a compound predicate
C.Using suffixes in a novel way
, D.Overapplying a recently learned rule ANS D
Option (D) is correct. The student in the scenario has learned how to form the past tense of a verb by
adding "ed" to the present tense. However, the student has not yet internalized that there are
exceptions to the rule, resulting in "breaked" rather than "broke," and "goed" rather than "went."
The "ake" in the words "bake" and "snake" is an example of which of the following?
A.A phoneme-grapheme relationship
B.A long-vowel /a/ digraph
C.A morpheme
D.A rime ANS D
Third-grade students are creating a story map as they read about the donkey Sylvester, who has
turned into a rock. The most important benefit of the story-mapping activity is that it will help the
students
A.improve their comprehension of the story by organizing and sequencing events
B.make connections to other characters who have solved a problem
C.develop a vocabulary they can use in writing their own stories
D.understand the essential features of a problem and its solution ANS A
** Which of the following best explains why it is necessary to teach unfamiliar, academic vocabulary
to students who are English-language learners before they are asked to read a passage in a nonfiction
text?
A.Such vocabulary is likely to be concrete and easy to illustrate.
B.Such vocabulary is appealing to visual and kinesthetic learners.
C.Such vocabulary is likely to be similar to words in the students' first languages.
D.Such vocabulary is not often used during informal conversations. ANS D
Option (D) is correct. Academic language is that used in school and books in the content areas and is
usually field-specific. It is not the everyday language that children use. Therefore, a teacher's
planning should include activities that will help students learn to read, recognize, and use such words
with confidence.
