TEACHING READING PRAXIS 5205 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

TEACHING READING PRAXIS 5205 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 Academic Language - Answers The language used in textbooks, in classrooms, and on tests Accuracy (part of fluency) - Answers Reading words in text with no errors Affix - Answers A prefix or suffix Alliteration - Answers Repetition of initial consonant sounds Alphabetic Principle - Answers An understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken words Anecdotal Record - Answers An informal, written record, based on observations the teacher makes of a students progress/activities throughout the day Antonym - Answers A word that means the opposite of another word Automaticity - Answers Reading without conscious effort or attention to decoding Basal Reader - Answers A kind of book that is used to teach reading. It is based on an approach in which words are used as a whole. The words are used over and over in each succeeding lesson. New words are added regularly. Background Knowledge - Answers Your personal experiences, what you already know. Base Word (free morpheme) - Answers A unit of meaning that can stand alone as a whole word (e.g., friend, pig). Blending - Answers Combining parts of a spoken word into a whole representation of the word (e.g., /p/ /oo/ /l/ to form pool) Choral Reading - Answers Reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students (builds fluency) Chunking - Answers Breaking words/sentences into meaningful parts (e.g., /yes/ /ter/ /day/ for yesterday) Cloze - Answers Eliminating words from a passage and a student must use context to fill in the blank with the appropriate word Comprehension - Answers understanding what one is reading (the ultimate GOAL of reading) Consonant - Answers Every letter in the alphabet except a, e, I ,o ,u, and sometimes y and w Consonant Blend - Answers Two or more consonants grouped together in which each sound is heard (e.g., /bl/ in block; /str/ in string). Consonant Digraph - Answers Two or more consonants grouped together in which one sound is heard (e.g., /sh/ in shut; /ch/ in churn Conventions of Print - Answers The understandings an individual has about the rules or accepted practices that govern the use of print, and the use of written language. Ex. reading left to right, top to bottom, words are made of letters, use of spaces between words, upper case letters, spelling patterns, etc. Core Instruction - Answers instruction provided to all students in the class, usually guided by a comprehensive core reading program Corrective Feedback - Answers When an error occurs, the teacher immediately attends to it by scaffolding instruction Semantics - Answers Meaning of words and sentences D.E.A.R - Answers Drop Everything And Read Decodable Text - Answers Text in which a high proportion of words (80%-90%) comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught Decodable Words - Answers These words contain phonic elements that were previously taught Decoding - Answers The act of sounding out a new word Diagnostic - Answers Assessment Digraphs - Answers two letters that represent on sound (e.g., /ea/ bread; /ch/ chin; /ng sing) Diphthong - Answers The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sound (e.g., ow, oy, ou, and oi) Direct Instruction - Answers The teacher defines and teaches a concept, guides students through its application, and arranges for extended guided practice until mastery is achieved Direct Vocabulary Instruction - Answers Planned instruction to pre-teach new, important, and difficult words Duet Reading - Answers An activity where a skilled reader sits next to a learner and the two read a text simultaneously Echo Reading - Answers This is a strategy in which a skilled reader reads aloud a section of a text and a second reader's voice follows right after (or echoes) that which was first read Elkonin Boxes - Answers used for phonemic awareness instruction. "sound boxes". Teacher uses one sound for each box and the students push a marker into one box and blend together the word. blank squares to be filled in Emergent Literacy - Answers Earliest period of learning about reading and writing Emergent Reader - Answers Has print awareness, reads in a left-to-right and top-to-bottom progression, uses some beginning and ending letter sounds, may tell the story from memory, may invent text, interprets/uses picture clues to help tell the story, is beginning to use high-frequency words English Language Learners (ELL) - Answers Students whose native language is not English and who are not yet proficient in the English language. Environmental Print - Answers Signs, labels, and other print found in the community (everyday print) Etymology - Answers The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning Explicit Instruction - Answers Instruction that involves direct explanation Expository Text - Answers Text written to explain and give information about a topic (more difficult for students) Expository Writing - Answers Purpose is to inform, describe, and explain Five Components of Reading - Answers 1. Phonemic Awareness 2. Phonics 3. Fluency 4. Vocabulary 5. Comprehension Flexible Grouping - Answers Grouping students according to shared instructional needs and abilities Fluency - Answers Ability to read text automatically, accurately, and with prosody Formal Assessment - Answers Pre-planned, systematic attempt to assess what students have learned. Frayer Model - Answers A graphic organizer that is an adaptation of the concept map. Includes: 1. Word 2. Definition 3. Characteristics 4. Examples 5. Non-examples Frustration Reading Level - Answers The level at which a reader reads at less than a 90% accuracy Genre - Answers a major category or type of literature Grapheme - Answers The written or printed representation of a phoneme Graphic Organizer - Answers A visual aid to help organize information. Guided Oral Reading - Answers Instructional support including immediate corrective feedback as students read orally. Guided Practice - Answers Students practice newly learned skills with the teacher providing prompts and feedback High Frequency Words - Answers A small group of words (300-500) that account for a large percentage of the words in print and can be regular or irregular words. Often, they are referred to as "sight words" since automatic recognition of these words is required for fluent reading Incidental Learning - Answers Learning without trying to learn, and often without awareness that learning is occurring. Independent Reading Level - Answers The level at which a student can read with 95% accuracy Indirect Vocabulary Instruction - Answers Words learned through independent reading and conversation Informal Assessment - Answers Assessment that results from a teacher's spontaneous, day-to-day observations of how students behave and perform in class Instructional Routines - Answers Include the following sequence of steps: 1. explicit instruction 2. modeling 3. guided practice 3. student practice, application, and feedback 5. generalization Intensive Intervention - Answers Instruction that may include more time, more opportunities for student practice, more teacher feedback, smaller group size and different material Invented Spelling - Answers An attempt to spell a word based on a student's knowledge of the spelling system and how it works (e.g., kt for cat) K-W-L - Answers A graphic organizer: Know Want to know Learned Listening Vocabulary - Answers The words we need to know to understand what we hear Literacy Centers - Answers Stations or areas where literacy activities are set up for use Literature Circles - Answers Students read common texts and have discussions about the shared reading to increase critical thinking and response to text Long Vowel Sound - Answers when a vowel sounds like its name like A in Lake or ape Main Idea - Answers The central thought or message of a story Metacognition - Answers Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes Metaphor - Answers A comparison without using like or as Meaning Vocabulary - Answers Words for which meanings are understood Modeled Reading - Answers A teacher reads a book aloud that is above the students' reading level Modeling - Answers Teacher demonstrates a strategy, skill, or concept that students will be learning Morpheme - Answers Smallest unit of meaning Multisyllabic Words - Answers Words with more than one syllable Narrative Text - Answers A story about fictional or real events Nonsense Words - Answers Often used to determine if students have mastered the alphabetic principle. These are made-up words