Praxis Elementary Education English Study
Questions with Accurate Solutions
alphabetic principle
understanding that letters represent sounds which form words; it is the knowledge of
predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.
phonics
a method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an
alphabetic writing system.
pragmatics
the branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used,
including such matters as deixis, taking turns in conversation, text organization, presupposition,
and implicature.
fast mapping
the hypothesized mental process whereby a new concept is learned (or a new hypothesis
formed) based only on a single exposure to a given unit of information.
morpheme division
the smallest grammatical unit in a language. In other words, it is the smallest meaningful unit of
a language - focuses on the meaning of the word (suffixes, prefixes, root words, etc.)
phonemic segmentation
tapping out each sound in the word
syllabication
breaking apart each syllable
habituation
, doing something repeatedly out of habit
underextension
a common semantic error made by children. It occurs when a word is given a narrower meaning
than it has in adult language. An example is using the word cat for the family pet but not
applying it to other cats.
overextension
when a categorical term (a word used to describe a group of things) is used in language to
represent more categories than it actually does. This happens in particular with very young
children. An example is when a child refers to all animals as 'doggie' or refers to a lion as a
'kitty.'
telegraphic speech
two word sentences to express meaning, such as "I hungry."
diphthong
two vowels in one syllable
semantics
the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.
literal comprehension
the understanding of the written meaning of a passage: the definition of words, the context of
the writing, the main idea of the passage, and the sequence of thought chosen by the author.
critical comprehension
requires readers to make judgments about what they are reading based on an evaluation of
several text-grounded factors, such as the quality of the writing, the determination that it is fact
not opinion, the objectivity of the author, and whether the text is believable.
metacognition
Questions with Accurate Solutions
alphabetic principle
understanding that letters represent sounds which form words; it is the knowledge of
predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.
phonics
a method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an
alphabetic writing system.
pragmatics
the branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used,
including such matters as deixis, taking turns in conversation, text organization, presupposition,
and implicature.
fast mapping
the hypothesized mental process whereby a new concept is learned (or a new hypothesis
formed) based only on a single exposure to a given unit of information.
morpheme division
the smallest grammatical unit in a language. In other words, it is the smallest meaningful unit of
a language - focuses on the meaning of the word (suffixes, prefixes, root words, etc.)
phonemic segmentation
tapping out each sound in the word
syllabication
breaking apart each syllable
habituation
, doing something repeatedly out of habit
underextension
a common semantic error made by children. It occurs when a word is given a narrower meaning
than it has in adult language. An example is using the word cat for the family pet but not
applying it to other cats.
overextension
when a categorical term (a word used to describe a group of things) is used in language to
represent more categories than it actually does. This happens in particular with very young
children. An example is when a child refers to all animals as 'doggie' or refers to a lion as a
'kitty.'
telegraphic speech
two word sentences to express meaning, such as "I hungry."
diphthong
two vowels in one syllable
semantics
the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.
literal comprehension
the understanding of the written meaning of a passage: the definition of words, the context of
the writing, the main idea of the passage, and the sequence of thought chosen by the author.
critical comprehension
requires readers to make judgments about what they are reading based on an evaluation of
several text-grounded factors, such as the quality of the writing, the determination that it is fact
not opinion, the objectivity of the author, and whether the text is believable.
metacognition
