Praxis 7812 Questions and Answers
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What do we call the letters and punctuation at the beginning and end of a sentence that help us
understand how it’s read?
✔✔ Sentence boundaries
What reading skill helps students figure out words they’ve never seen before by breaking them
into parts?
✔✔ Decoding
What does it mean when a student reads a word automatically without sounding it out?
✔✔ Word recognition
If a student uses context clues to figure out what a word means, what strategy are they using?
✔✔ Vocabulary inference
What is the first thing a student should do when trying to understand a new text?
✔✔ Preview the text
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,What is the term for changing the pitch and tone of your voice when reading aloud?
✔✔ Prosody
What is an example of an onset in the word "dog"?
✔✔ /d/
What is the rime in the word “bat”?
✔✔ -at
What is a homophone?
✔✔ Words that sound the same but have different meanings or spellings
If a student writes “mi” for “my,” what kind of spelling is this?
✔✔ Invented spelling
What do good readers do when something they read doesn’t make sense?
✔✔ Reread
2
,What part of speech is the word “quickly” in the sentence “She ran quickly”?
✔✔ Adverb
What is the name of the book part that lists chapters and their page numbers?
✔✔ Table of contents
What is the main purpose of reading comprehension instruction?
✔✔ To help students understand and think about what they read
What type of sentence is “Can you help me?”
✔✔ Interrogative
What does a student practice when they summarize a paragraph?
✔✔ Identifying the main idea
Which part of a story introduces the characters and setting?
✔✔ Beginning or exposition
3
, If a student says “goed” instead of “went,” what kind of error is that?
✔✔ Overgeneralization
What does it mean to “skim” a passage?
✔✔ Quickly look for the main idea
What is the opposite of a synonym?
✔✔ Antonym
What tool do students use to organize their thoughts before writing?
✔✔ Graphic organizer
What do we call writing that explains or gives information?
✔✔ Expository writing
What is an example of figurative language used to compare two things using “like” or “as”?
✔✔ Simile
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Latest Version with Certified Solutions
What do we call the letters and punctuation at the beginning and end of a sentence that help us
understand how it’s read?
✔✔ Sentence boundaries
What reading skill helps students figure out words they’ve never seen before by breaking them
into parts?
✔✔ Decoding
What does it mean when a student reads a word automatically without sounding it out?
✔✔ Word recognition
If a student uses context clues to figure out what a word means, what strategy are they using?
✔✔ Vocabulary inference
What is the first thing a student should do when trying to understand a new text?
✔✔ Preview the text
1
,What is the term for changing the pitch and tone of your voice when reading aloud?
✔✔ Prosody
What is an example of an onset in the word "dog"?
✔✔ /d/
What is the rime in the word “bat”?
✔✔ -at
What is a homophone?
✔✔ Words that sound the same but have different meanings or spellings
If a student writes “mi” for “my,” what kind of spelling is this?
✔✔ Invented spelling
What do good readers do when something they read doesn’t make sense?
✔✔ Reread
2
,What part of speech is the word “quickly” in the sentence “She ran quickly”?
✔✔ Adverb
What is the name of the book part that lists chapters and their page numbers?
✔✔ Table of contents
What is the main purpose of reading comprehension instruction?
✔✔ To help students understand and think about what they read
What type of sentence is “Can you help me?”
✔✔ Interrogative
What does a student practice when they summarize a paragraph?
✔✔ Identifying the main idea
Which part of a story introduces the characters and setting?
✔✔ Beginning or exposition
3
, If a student says “goed” instead of “went,” what kind of error is that?
✔✔ Overgeneralization
What does it mean to “skim” a passage?
✔✔ Quickly look for the main idea
What is the opposite of a synonym?
✔✔ Antonym
What tool do students use to organize their thoughts before writing?
✔✔ Graphic organizer
What do we call writing that explains or gives information?
✔✔ Expository writing
What is an example of figurative language used to compare two things using “like” or “as”?
✔✔ Simile
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