Praxis practice test missed
1. A teacher gives each student in a class a list containing the words "whale," "three," "ship," and "chew." Then
the teacher says, "Circle the two letters in each word that go together to make the new sounds we have been
learning about." The exercise can most appropriately be used to assess the students' ability to recognize which of
the following?: Constant digraphs -
These pairs are "wh," "th," "sh," and "ch." The letters in the pairs are consonants, and the pair is called a consonant
digraph.
2. Which of the following is the most appropriate time to encourage young children to start writing?
• A. As soon as they can hold a crayon or marker
• B. When they first recognize the speech-print relationship X C. After they have
learned left-to-right orientation
• D. When they show they can follow instructions: As soon as children can hold a crayon or marker
3. A teacher notices that a student has written the words "goed" and "breaked" in a story. Which of the following
best describes the error the student is making?: Overapplying a recently learned rule
4. The "ake" in the words "bake" and "snake" is an example of which of the following?: rime
5. Which THREE of the following classroom activities are effective for helping a student who is a slow and
nonfluent reader?: 1.Reading along with a taped or recorded book
2.Repeated choral readings of the class's favorite poems and funny stories 3.Listening to the teacher read with intonation
and stress
6. Jean is willing to hike in the snow, but Jim is reluctant and goes inside because of the frigid
temperatures.: Contrast
7. After sharing a picture book about opposites with a class of 3-year-old children, a teacher talks with the
children about the concept of opposites. The teacher then asks them to use the pictures in the book to talk about
opposites with their peers. The lesson best encourages oral language development in young children by:
encouraging them to engage in conversation
8. Ms. Craig asks her students to write the word "sailboat". Levi spells the word "PKLLEEP". At which of the
following levels is Levi spelling?: A. Pre- phonemic..Option (A) is correct. At the prephonemic stage, students know
some letters and may begin experimenting with letters, but sound-symbol correspondence is absent.
9. At the end of a second-grade reading unit, a teacher reads the following sentences in a child's response
journal.
This is a long tail. Their onced was a sun. He worked in a coal mind. He was
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sooty. Then he found a garland. That is a red gem.
The child needs help with which of the following?: homophones
10.Which of the following strategies is most beneficial for students to use during the publishing stage of the
writing process?: Typing the final copy on a computer -
Publishing is the last stage
11.1 enjoyed the trip to the museum. We rode there in the school bus. We also saw many displays and ate lunch.
Which of the following instructional strategies will be most useful in helping the student improve the writing piece
shown?: Asking the student questions about the trip
12.Which of the following terms best describes the ability to read with expres- sion and appropriate phrasing?:
Prosody. Prosody refers to appropriate use of phrasing and expression to convey meaning when reading
13.Third-grade students are writing reports on a science topic. Which of the following tools will best help
students with the assignment by initiating written discussion of their report?: Blogging programs-
Blogs are regularly updated Web sites or Web pages that enable writers to share their pieces and allow readers to respond
to the pieces using written discussion.
14.Which of the following strategies will best help students create engaging oral presentations?: Writing key
words and terms on note cards to refer to during the presentation
15.Students in a second-grade class are comparing the lengths of different objects in the classroom using metric
measurement units. Which of the follow- ing measurement units is most appropriate for the students to use?:
meter
16.• Draw a triangle and divide it into halves
• Draw a square and divide it into halves
Which is larger: half of the triangle or half of the square?
A third-grade teacher asks students to complete the tasks shown. By asking students the question, the teacher mos
likely wants them to: recognize that fraction comparisons are only valid when fractions refer to the same whole
17.Which of the following classroom activities provides first-grade students with the most meaningful practice
in counting?: Determining the number of school days before the next holiday
18.Each student in a math class is given a shoe box containing 20 pennies. The teacher has the student shake the
box and then write a number sentence relating the number of heads showing, the number of tails showing, and
the
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1. A teacher gives each student in a class a list containing the words "whale," "three," "ship," and "chew." Then
the teacher says, "Circle the two letters in each word that go together to make the new sounds we have been
learning about." The exercise can most appropriately be used to assess the students' ability to recognize which of
the following?: Constant digraphs -
These pairs are "wh," "th," "sh," and "ch." The letters in the pairs are consonants, and the pair is called a consonant
digraph.
2. Which of the following is the most appropriate time to encourage young children to start writing?
• A. As soon as they can hold a crayon or marker
• B. When they first recognize the speech-print relationship X C. After they have
learned left-to-right orientation
• D. When they show they can follow instructions: As soon as children can hold a crayon or marker
3. A teacher notices that a student has written the words "goed" and "breaked" in a story. Which of the following
best describes the error the student is making?: Overapplying a recently learned rule
4. The "ake" in the words "bake" and "snake" is an example of which of the following?: rime
5. Which THREE of the following classroom activities are effective for helping a student who is a slow and
nonfluent reader?: 1.Reading along with a taped or recorded book
2.Repeated choral readings of the class's favorite poems and funny stories 3.Listening to the teacher read with intonation
and stress
6. Jean is willing to hike in the snow, but Jim is reluctant and goes inside because of the frigid
temperatures.: Contrast
7. After sharing a picture book about opposites with a class of 3-year-old children, a teacher talks with the
children about the concept of opposites. The teacher then asks them to use the pictures in the book to talk about
opposites with their peers. The lesson best encourages oral language development in young children by:
encouraging them to engage in conversation
8. Ms. Craig asks her students to write the word "sailboat". Levi spells the word "PKLLEEP". At which of the
following levels is Levi spelling?: A. Pre- phonemic..Option (A) is correct. At the prephonemic stage, students know
some letters and may begin experimenting with letters, but sound-symbol correspondence is absent.
9. At the end of a second-grade reading unit, a teacher reads the following sentences in a child's response
journal.
This is a long tail. Their onced was a sun. He worked in a coal mind. He was
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sooty. Then he found a garland. That is a red gem.
The child needs help with which of the following?: homophones
10.Which of the following strategies is most beneficial for students to use during the publishing stage of the
writing process?: Typing the final copy on a computer -
Publishing is the last stage
11.1 enjoyed the trip to the museum. We rode there in the school bus. We also saw many displays and ate lunch.
Which of the following instructional strategies will be most useful in helping the student improve the writing piece
shown?: Asking the student questions about the trip
12.Which of the following terms best describes the ability to read with expres- sion and appropriate phrasing?:
Prosody. Prosody refers to appropriate use of phrasing and expression to convey meaning when reading
13.Third-grade students are writing reports on a science topic. Which of the following tools will best help
students with the assignment by initiating written discussion of their report?: Blogging programs-
Blogs are regularly updated Web sites or Web pages that enable writers to share their pieces and allow readers to respond
to the pieces using written discussion.
14.Which of the following strategies will best help students create engaging oral presentations?: Writing key
words and terms on note cards to refer to during the presentation
15.Students in a second-grade class are comparing the lengths of different objects in the classroom using metric
measurement units. Which of the follow- ing measurement units is most appropriate for the students to use?:
meter
16.• Draw a triangle and divide it into halves
• Draw a square and divide it into halves
Which is larger: half of the triangle or half of the square?
A third-grade teacher asks students to complete the tasks shown. By asking students the question, the teacher mos
likely wants them to: recognize that fraction comparisons are only valid when fractions refer to the same whole
17.Which of the following classroom activities provides first-grade students with the most meaningful practice
in counting?: Determining the number of school days before the next holiday
18.Each student in a math class is given a shoe box containing 20 pennies. The teacher has the student shake the
box and then write a number sentence relating the number of heads showing, the number of tails showing, and
the
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