5047-Middle School ELA Praxis Exam
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Personal Writing - ✔✔journaling, autobiographies, diaries, reflective essays
Workplace Writing - ✔✔resumes, cover letters, job applications, business letters
Subject Writing - ✔✔interviews, accounts, profiles, or descriptions
Creative Writing - ✔✔creation of stories and dramas
persuasive writing - ✔✔rhetorical strategies to persuade others, such as editorials,
arguments, commentaries or ads
scholarly writing - ✔✔essays, research papers, bibliographies
MLA Citation (Work Cited Page) - ✔✔Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. New York:
Little, Brown, and Company, 1945. Print.
MLA Citation (within text) - ✔✔Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous
overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
APA Citation (Work Cited) - ✔✔Salinger, J.D. (1945). The Catcher in the Rye. New
York: Little, Brown and Company.
Argument Writing - ✔✔include a claim, evidence, the warrant that explains how the
evidence supports the claim, support for the warrant and qualifications or
counterarguments that refute competing claims
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, Writers Workshop - ✔✔1. Mini Lesson: led by teacher or a capable student, based on
individual and group instructional needs
2.Status of the Class: teacher asks each student to provide a brief update on what he or
she will be working on
3. Time for Writing: Students work alone, with a partner, or with the teacher to advance
through the stages of the writing process, teacher often conferences with students
during this time, students participate in revising and editing
4. Sharing: teacher selects one or a few students to share aspects of their writing
Dialogue (teach and evaluate speaking and listening) - ✔✔requires students to work
collaboratively to listen to multiple perspectives and to build on the points of others to
reach high levels of critical thinking
Fishbowl - ✔✔small subset of the class sits in a circle i the center of the class and
engages in dialogue, the rest of the class listens and observes, they will switch roles
Think-Pair-Share - ✔✔student gathers their own thoughts and then pairs with another
student then they share their ideas
Dicourses - ✔✔systems of thought that systematically construct the subjects and worlds
of which they speak
Exposition (discourse) - ✔✔speech or written form in which on explains or describes
ex: comparative analysis
Ad Hominem - ✔✔counter a position using feelings or prejudice, not facts reason or
logic (attacks another person)
Analogies - ✔✔Comparing two ideas that have the same relationship
Appeal to Authority - ✔✔using an expert to strengthen your argument
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2025 Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Personal Writing - ✔✔journaling, autobiographies, diaries, reflective essays
Workplace Writing - ✔✔resumes, cover letters, job applications, business letters
Subject Writing - ✔✔interviews, accounts, profiles, or descriptions
Creative Writing - ✔✔creation of stories and dramas
persuasive writing - ✔✔rhetorical strategies to persuade others, such as editorials,
arguments, commentaries or ads
scholarly writing - ✔✔essays, research papers, bibliographies
MLA Citation (Work Cited Page) - ✔✔Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. New York:
Little, Brown, and Company, 1945. Print.
MLA Citation (within text) - ✔✔Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous
overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
APA Citation (Work Cited) - ✔✔Salinger, J.D. (1945). The Catcher in the Rye. New
York: Little, Brown and Company.
Argument Writing - ✔✔include a claim, evidence, the warrant that explains how the
evidence supports the claim, support for the warrant and qualifications or
counterarguments that refute competing claims
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY GRACE AMELIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
, Writers Workshop - ✔✔1. Mini Lesson: led by teacher or a capable student, based on
individual and group instructional needs
2.Status of the Class: teacher asks each student to provide a brief update on what he or
she will be working on
3. Time for Writing: Students work alone, with a partner, or with the teacher to advance
through the stages of the writing process, teacher often conferences with students
during this time, students participate in revising and editing
4. Sharing: teacher selects one or a few students to share aspects of their writing
Dialogue (teach and evaluate speaking and listening) - ✔✔requires students to work
collaboratively to listen to multiple perspectives and to build on the points of others to
reach high levels of critical thinking
Fishbowl - ✔✔small subset of the class sits in a circle i the center of the class and
engages in dialogue, the rest of the class listens and observes, they will switch roles
Think-Pair-Share - ✔✔student gathers their own thoughts and then pairs with another
student then they share their ideas
Dicourses - ✔✔systems of thought that systematically construct the subjects and worlds
of which they speak
Exposition (discourse) - ✔✔speech or written form in which on explains or describes
ex: comparative analysis
Ad Hominem - ✔✔counter a position using feelings or prejudice, not facts reason or
logic (attacks another person)
Analogies - ✔✔Comparing two ideas that have the same relationship
Appeal to Authority - ✔✔using an expert to strengthen your argument
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