Praxis 5017 Elementary Education:
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Exam Questions And Answers
Erikson's psychosocial development (first four) -
correct answer Trust vs. Mistrust: Early Childhood (2 to 3 years)
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt Preschool (3 to 5 years) Initiative
vs. Guilt: School Age (6 to 11 years)
Industry vs. Inferiority: School Age (6 to 11 years)
Misconceptions -
correct answer Invalid concepts that students construct using
their experiences, expectations, beliefs, and emotions.
Strategies to develop phonic and word-analysis skills to support
decoding -
correct answer Morphology, syllabication, word building,
wor/letter sorts, high-frequency words)
Strategies to develop fluency to support comprehension -
correct answer Selecting appropriate text which are at
instructional level, modeling fluent reading, paired reading, echo
reading, readers theater, repeated reading
,Praxis 5017 Elementary Education:
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Exam Questions And Answers
Strategies to for teaching students to ask and answer questions
about text (predictions) -
correct answer Use evidence from text, schema, and pictures, to
make a prediction about what might happen next in a text
Strategies for teaching students to find and organize key details and
main ideas and themes in a text -
correct answer Plays, think-alouds, graphic organizers
Scaffolding strategies to support students' progress toward
independent proficient reading -
correct answer provide access to grade-level texts, purposeful
grouping, close reading
Primary sources -
correct answer Eyewitness accounts of history. They include
letters, diaries, speeches, and interviews.
Secondary sources -
correct answer Commentaries, summaries, reviews, or
,Praxis 5017 Elementary Education:
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Exam Questions And Answers
interpretation of primary sources to provide new insights or
historical perspectives
Strategies to help students distinguish between primary and
secondary sources, reliable and unreliable sources, and
paraphrasing and plagiarizing -
correct answer Example for Web: Keep it REAL - Read the URL,
Examine the Content, Ask about the Author, Look at the links.
Strategies to develop students' ability to determine word meaning
and develop vocabularies -
correct answer Example: In this activity, students use their
knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to create new words based on
the root words provided. Each worksheet has a total of three new
roots with a word bank for prefixes and suffixes. Students create
new words using a prefix, root, and suffix and then come up with
what they think is the correct defintion. Once this part is
completed, students look up the words they have created and write
down the correct dictionary definition and judge how close they
came.
, Praxis 5017 Elementary Education:
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Exam Questions And Answers
Develop active listening skills -
correct answer Looks like: Eyes on speaker; Still bodies and
hands on lap or table; Appropriate expressions
Raising your hand to speak
Sounds like: One voice at a time; Appropriate comments and
questions; Quiet bodies; Inside voices; Waiting to be called n to
speak
Formative assessment -
correct answer Assessing a student's understanding as you
teach a unit. through homework, observation, in-class activities,
journal writing, etc.
Summative assessment -
correct answer Evaluation at the conclusion of a unit. multiple
choice, true/false, constructed response
Properties of operations -
correct answer Rules that help us add, subtract, multiply and
divide effectively and efficiently
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Exam Questions And Answers
Erikson's psychosocial development (first four) -
correct answer Trust vs. Mistrust: Early Childhood (2 to 3 years)
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt Preschool (3 to 5 years) Initiative
vs. Guilt: School Age (6 to 11 years)
Industry vs. Inferiority: School Age (6 to 11 years)
Misconceptions -
correct answer Invalid concepts that students construct using
their experiences, expectations, beliefs, and emotions.
Strategies to develop phonic and word-analysis skills to support
decoding -
correct answer Morphology, syllabication, word building,
wor/letter sorts, high-frequency words)
Strategies to develop fluency to support comprehension -
correct answer Selecting appropriate text which are at
instructional level, modeling fluent reading, paired reading, echo
reading, readers theater, repeated reading
,Praxis 5017 Elementary Education:
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Exam Questions And Answers
Strategies to for teaching students to ask and answer questions
about text (predictions) -
correct answer Use evidence from text, schema, and pictures, to
make a prediction about what might happen next in a text
Strategies for teaching students to find and organize key details and
main ideas and themes in a text -
correct answer Plays, think-alouds, graphic organizers
Scaffolding strategies to support students' progress toward
independent proficient reading -
correct answer provide access to grade-level texts, purposeful
grouping, close reading
Primary sources -
correct answer Eyewitness accounts of history. They include
letters, diaries, speeches, and interviews.
Secondary sources -
correct answer Commentaries, summaries, reviews, or
,Praxis 5017 Elementary Education:
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Exam Questions And Answers
interpretation of primary sources to provide new insights or
historical perspectives
Strategies to help students distinguish between primary and
secondary sources, reliable and unreliable sources, and
paraphrasing and plagiarizing -
correct answer Example for Web: Keep it REAL - Read the URL,
Examine the Content, Ask about the Author, Look at the links.
Strategies to develop students' ability to determine word meaning
and develop vocabularies -
correct answer Example: In this activity, students use their
knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to create new words based on
the root words provided. Each worksheet has a total of three new
roots with a word bank for prefixes and suffixes. Students create
new words using a prefix, root, and suffix and then come up with
what they think is the correct defintion. Once this part is
completed, students look up the words they have created and write
down the correct dictionary definition and judge how close they
came.
, Praxis 5017 Elementary Education:
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Exam Questions And Answers
Develop active listening skills -
correct answer Looks like: Eyes on speaker; Still bodies and
hands on lap or table; Appropriate expressions
Raising your hand to speak
Sounds like: One voice at a time; Appropriate comments and
questions; Quiet bodies; Inside voices; Waiting to be called n to
speak
Formative assessment -
correct answer Assessing a student's understanding as you
teach a unit. through homework, observation, in-class activities,
journal writing, etc.
Summative assessment -
correct answer Evaluation at the conclusion of a unit. multiple
choice, true/false, constructed response
Properties of operations -
correct answer Rules that help us add, subtract, multiply and
divide effectively and efficiently
