,Praxis 5025 Early Childhood Education Exam | 362
Practice Questions with Answers | Literacy,
Phonemic Awareness, Teaching Strategies & More.
Mr. Roberts has a prekindergarten class of students who have just turned four. He wants to make sure
his students have ample opportunity for writing practice to prepare for next year, but he also wants to
ensure his strategies are developmentally appropriate. Which of the following strategies should he
choose?
A. giving students a letter-writing practice workbook and insisting that ten pages must be completed
each day
B. conducting guided read-alouds where he asks students probing questions about stories he reads to
them
C. encouraging students to use writing in their daily center time, such as using a notepad to take an
order when pretending to be a waiter during dramatic play
D. insisting that students spend more time at the art center than any other center during free-choice
center time
C. encouraging students to use writing in their daily center time, such as using a notepad to take an
order when pretending to be a waiter during dramatic play
Which of the following words has the onset italicized?
A. pl-ATE
B. BR-oom
C. in-TER-est
D. fair-Y
C. BR-oom
A prekindergarten teacher is planning a unit of instruction on letter sounds. Which of the following
describes the order in which the letter sounds should be introduced to students?
A. introduce the most challenging sounds first
B. introduce the sounds that make up the child's name first
C. introduce the sounds that have the greatest frequency first
D. introduce one sound per month until they are all mastered
C. introduce the sounds that have the greatest frequency first
Mr. Scott writes the following words on the board: blimp, roar, and grin. He asks his class to make a new
word out of each word by removing a part of the existing word. Which of the following concepts is the
teacher trying to develop in his students?
,A. the alphabetic principle
B. phoneme deletion
C. phoneme substitution
D. phoneme segmentation
B. phoneme deletion
Which of the following is a non-decodable word?
A. bread
B. fly
C. what
D. plan
C. what
A second-grade teacher notices that one of her students has lost interest in reading or speaking in her
home language. To encourage her, she asks for the student's "help" to read a short blurb in a newspaper
in the student's home language. Why is the teacher most likely doing this?
A. She wants to assess the student's oral fluency in her home language.
B. She wants to encourage the student to read more informational texts.
C. She wants to encourage the student to maintain her biliteracy.
D. She wants the student to practice prosody and rate in her home language.
C. She wants to encourage the student to maintain her biliteracy.
Which of the following concepts should be taught alongside phonics to ensure that students will be able
to read quickly and fluently?
A. print awareness
B. sight word recognition
C. stroke order
D. spelling
B. sight word recognition
Jenine is a second-grade student targeted for extra reading practice. One day, the teacher listens to her
read a paragraph out loud and notices that Jenine is reading very slowly. Which of the following parts of
fluency does Jenine need help with?
A. rate
B. prosody
C. accuracy
D. phonemes
A. rate
, Mrs. Perez is teaching her first-grade class about meter in poetry. Which of the following activities
would be most appropriate to help her students understand this concept?
A. independently label each line of the poem with an A, B, C, or so on to indicate the rhyming pattern
B. read in a different voice for each character in the poem
C. copy each line of the poem multiple times until they pick up its meter
D. clap to the beat of a poem that she reads aloud
D. clap to the beat of a poem that she reads aloud
Mr. Harrison wants his third-grade class to practice writing a problem-solution piece in the second
person. Which of the following assignments would best meet his goal?
A. a drama that groups of students write collaboratively
B. a letter that each student writes to the principal proposing a solution to a school-wide problem
C. a letter that each student writes to his or her parents thanking them for being good parents
D. an essay that explains and solves an environmental problem
B. a letter that each student writes to the principal proposing a solution to a school-wide problem
Mark, a third grader, is having difficulty identifying the main idea of texts he reads. Mrs. Martinez wants
to give him extra practice with this skill when he completes his weekly oral reading assessment. Which
of the following is the best way for Mrs. Martinez to incorporate the identification of the main idea into
Mark's weekly oral fluency assessment?
A. stopping him after he reads each paragraph and asking, "What was that paragraph about?"
B. assigning him longer passages to read so that he can practice with more advanced texts
C. having Mark read only nonfiction texts since the main idea is easier to identify
D. giving Mark passages with varying themes so that he has more exposure to different genres
A. stopping him after he reads each paragraph and asking, "What was that paragraph about?"
Which of the following activities would be appropriate when introducing the idea of a summary to a
first-grade class?
A. having students write a summary for each paragraph in their social studies textbook
B. asking the class to brainstorm several phrases and ideas that describe the story overall
C. identifying the point of view of each story they have read and keeping this information in a journal or
notebook
D. asking the students several questions orally about each character's motivation
B. asking the class to brainstorm several phrases and ideas that describe the story overall
Howard is a first-grade student in Mrs. Hong's class. Howard is significantly behind many of the other
students in his literacy skills, and he never wants to take a book from the library when the class visits. As
a result he has trouble completing his weekly reading log. During a conference with Howard's parents,
Mrs. Hong learns that he enjoys graphic novels or what they call "comic books." Which of the following
might Mrs. Hong suggest to Howard and his parents?
Practice Questions with Answers | Literacy,
Phonemic Awareness, Teaching Strategies & More.
Mr. Roberts has a prekindergarten class of students who have just turned four. He wants to make sure
his students have ample opportunity for writing practice to prepare for next year, but he also wants to
ensure his strategies are developmentally appropriate. Which of the following strategies should he
choose?
A. giving students a letter-writing practice workbook and insisting that ten pages must be completed
each day
B. conducting guided read-alouds where he asks students probing questions about stories he reads to
them
C. encouraging students to use writing in their daily center time, such as using a notepad to take an
order when pretending to be a waiter during dramatic play
D. insisting that students spend more time at the art center than any other center during free-choice
center time
C. encouraging students to use writing in their daily center time, such as using a notepad to take an
order when pretending to be a waiter during dramatic play
Which of the following words has the onset italicized?
A. pl-ATE
B. BR-oom
C. in-TER-est
D. fair-Y
C. BR-oom
A prekindergarten teacher is planning a unit of instruction on letter sounds. Which of the following
describes the order in which the letter sounds should be introduced to students?
A. introduce the most challenging sounds first
B. introduce the sounds that make up the child's name first
C. introduce the sounds that have the greatest frequency first
D. introduce one sound per month until they are all mastered
C. introduce the sounds that have the greatest frequency first
Mr. Scott writes the following words on the board: blimp, roar, and grin. He asks his class to make a new
word out of each word by removing a part of the existing word. Which of the following concepts is the
teacher trying to develop in his students?
,A. the alphabetic principle
B. phoneme deletion
C. phoneme substitution
D. phoneme segmentation
B. phoneme deletion
Which of the following is a non-decodable word?
A. bread
B. fly
C. what
D. plan
C. what
A second-grade teacher notices that one of her students has lost interest in reading or speaking in her
home language. To encourage her, she asks for the student's "help" to read a short blurb in a newspaper
in the student's home language. Why is the teacher most likely doing this?
A. She wants to assess the student's oral fluency in her home language.
B. She wants to encourage the student to read more informational texts.
C. She wants to encourage the student to maintain her biliteracy.
D. She wants the student to practice prosody and rate in her home language.
C. She wants to encourage the student to maintain her biliteracy.
Which of the following concepts should be taught alongside phonics to ensure that students will be able
to read quickly and fluently?
A. print awareness
B. sight word recognition
C. stroke order
D. spelling
B. sight word recognition
Jenine is a second-grade student targeted for extra reading practice. One day, the teacher listens to her
read a paragraph out loud and notices that Jenine is reading very slowly. Which of the following parts of
fluency does Jenine need help with?
A. rate
B. prosody
C. accuracy
D. phonemes
A. rate
, Mrs. Perez is teaching her first-grade class about meter in poetry. Which of the following activities
would be most appropriate to help her students understand this concept?
A. independently label each line of the poem with an A, B, C, or so on to indicate the rhyming pattern
B. read in a different voice for each character in the poem
C. copy each line of the poem multiple times until they pick up its meter
D. clap to the beat of a poem that she reads aloud
D. clap to the beat of a poem that she reads aloud
Mr. Harrison wants his third-grade class to practice writing a problem-solution piece in the second
person. Which of the following assignments would best meet his goal?
A. a drama that groups of students write collaboratively
B. a letter that each student writes to the principal proposing a solution to a school-wide problem
C. a letter that each student writes to his or her parents thanking them for being good parents
D. an essay that explains and solves an environmental problem
B. a letter that each student writes to the principal proposing a solution to a school-wide problem
Mark, a third grader, is having difficulty identifying the main idea of texts he reads. Mrs. Martinez wants
to give him extra practice with this skill when he completes his weekly oral reading assessment. Which
of the following is the best way for Mrs. Martinez to incorporate the identification of the main idea into
Mark's weekly oral fluency assessment?
A. stopping him after he reads each paragraph and asking, "What was that paragraph about?"
B. assigning him longer passages to read so that he can practice with more advanced texts
C. having Mark read only nonfiction texts since the main idea is easier to identify
D. giving Mark passages with varying themes so that he has more exposure to different genres
A. stopping him after he reads each paragraph and asking, "What was that paragraph about?"
Which of the following activities would be appropriate when introducing the idea of a summary to a
first-grade class?
A. having students write a summary for each paragraph in their social studies textbook
B. asking the class to brainstorm several phrases and ideas that describe the story overall
C. identifying the point of view of each story they have read and keeping this information in a journal or
notebook
D. asking the students several questions orally about each character's motivation
B. asking the class to brainstorm several phrases and ideas that describe the story overall
Howard is a first-grade student in Mrs. Hong's class. Howard is significantly behind many of the other
students in his literacy skills, and he never wants to take a book from the library when the class visits. As
a result he has trouble completing his weekly reading log. During a conference with Howard's parents,
Mrs. Hong learns that he enjoys graphic novels or what they call "comic books." Which of the following
might Mrs. Hong suggest to Howard and his parents?
