Praxis Elementary Education 5001 Complete
Questions and Correct Detailed Answers
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Question: Assonance
Ans: Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
Question: Meter
Ans: A recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates a
rhythm when spoken
Question: Iambic meter
Ans: An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Question: Blank verse
Ans: unrhymed verse that consists of lines of iambic pentameter
Question: Free verse
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Ans: Lacks regular patterns of poetic feet, but has more controlled rhythm
than prose in terms of pace and pauses.
Question: Phonological awareness
Ans: A sub-skill of literacy; the ability to perceive sound structures in spoken
word, such as syllables and the individual phonemes within syllables.
Question: Phonemes
Ans: The sounds represented by the letters in the alphabet
Question: Teaching phonological awareness
Ans: Language play; an exposure to a variety of sounds and contexts of
sounds
Question: Alphabetic principle
Ans: The use of letters and combinations of letters to represent speech
sounds
Question: Developing language skills
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Ans: - Interacting with others
- Experiencing language in daily life
- Understanding that speaking and listening are necessary for effective
communication.
Question: Know, Wonder, Learn
Ans: What KWL stands for
Question: Decoding
Ans: Method used to make sense of printed words and figure out how to
correctly pronounce them.
Student must know the relationships between letters and sounds, including:
- letter patterns
- words are constructed from phonemes
- printed word represents a word that can be spoken.
Question: Phonics
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Ans: Process of learning to read by learning how spoken language is
represented by letters
Question: Whole language approach
Ans: Method of teaching children to read by recognizing words as whole
pieces of language; believes that language should not be broken down into
letters and combinations of letters and "decoded."
Question: Fluency
Ans: The goal of literacy development; the ability to read and write
accurately and quickly
Question: Affixes
Ans: Syllables attached to the beginning or end of a word to make a
derivative or inflectional form of a word.
Question: Noun suffixes
Ans: Type of suffix. Two types:
- Denotes the act of, state of, or quality of. (argument)
- Denotes the doer, or one who does (auctioneer)
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