Praxis 5205 study guide

Phonological awareness CORRECT ANSWER refers to a student's ability to identify and manipulate units of oral language. The ability to delete a syllable in a spoken word, such as saying "plane" when "air" is deleted from the word "airplane," is an example of a phonological-awareness skill. oral language milestones CORRECT ANSWER Responding to simple questions with a "yes" or "no" Answering questions using complete sentences and a variety of sentence structures Using content-related vocabulary correctly during conversations Making an oral presentation that is appropriate for the given audience use of multiple sensory modalities to learn CORRECT ANSWER Using visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic senses to reinforce learning during the activity supports long-term memory of the targeted vocabulary. A primary purpose of a criterion-referenced reading benchmark is to CORRECT ANSWER set the standards for student skill mastery along with a time frame indicating when the level of mastery should be achieved can help accelerate the growth of grade level readers CORRECT ANSWER Students typically have a listening vocabulary that is above their reading vocabulary. Listening to books that are at their interest level regardless of reading level, while they either follow along with the text or not, allows them access to much more than just decoding words. Students will be exposed to vocabulary they may not typically hear, which helps their receptive and e