Praxis 5025: Early Childhood Education
Questions And Complete Answers.
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?"
Questions And Complete Answers.
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?"
