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Praxis Test 5206
Bi, re, and un are:
How many layers of orthography are there?
Praxis Test 5206
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1
How many layers of orthography are there?
5
3
4
2
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Bi, re, and un are:
suffixes at the beginning of the base word that change the meaning
prefixes at the beginning of base words to emphasize their meaning
suffixes at the end of the base word to enhance meaning
prefixes at the beginning of base words to change their meanings
3
Reading specialists typically have assessment data from:
Multiple grade levels over a single time period
Multiple grade levels and time periods
A single grade level over multiple time periods
A single grade level and time period
4
Which of the following refers to readers thinking about their own thinking?
Metacognition
Reciprocal thinking
Epistemology
Active comprehension
5
Which of the following literacies would be needed to evaluate a newspaper?
media
digital
technology
data
6
A cloze test evaluates a student's
Phonemic Skills
Reading Fluency
Understanding of context and vocabulary
Ability to apply the alphabetic principle to previously unknown material
7
Which assessment will determine a student's ability to identify initial, medial, blended, final, and segmented units?
High frequency word assessment
Phonological awareness assessment
Reading fluency assessment
Comprehension quick check
8
According to Gardner, how many types of intelligence are there?
8
6
5
7
9
Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and symbolism are all forms of
academic language
figurative language
allusions
key words
10
Which of the following are also referred to as static characters?
dynamic characters
flat characters
antagonists
protagonists
11
Compare and contrast, cause and effect, chronological order, problem and solution, and list are all forms of
figurative language
fiction text structure
nonfiction text structure
tone
12
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is most directly based off of which of the following
Schema theory
Bloom's taxonomy
Carl Jung's personality theory
Dewey's constructivist theory
13
Since, whether, and accordingly are examples of which type of signal words?
temporal sequencing
common, or basic
cause-effect
compare / contrast
14
Caret, carrott, to, two, and too share something in common. They:
represent things in nature
are monosyllabic
are nouns
are homophones
15
According to Perkins, which of the following is NOT a type of intelligence?
Experiential
Neural
Interpersonal
Reflective
16
Left to right directionality begins in which stage of writing development?
emergent
transitional
preliterate
fluent
17
Non-rhyming, first and last lines contain five syllables, middle line has seven syllables
Metaphor
Limerick
Villanelle
Haiku
18
Word-recognition ability is
equally important to all readers
another term for "word attack"
especially important to ELLs and students with reading disabilities
used only by fluent readers
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VC, CVC, CCVC, CVCC, and CCVCC are among the types of
homophones
polyglotal indicators
closed syllables
monosyllabic words
20
Reading specialists should be aware of policies that affect literacy education at all the following levels, EXCEPT
Local
State
National
International
21
An understanding of the meanings of prefixes and suffixes such as dis, mis, un, re, able, and ment are important for
reading fluency
word recognition
reading comprehension
vocabulary building
22
Which of the following lists the four stages of reading development from EARLIEST to LATEST?
Fluent, transitional, early, emergent
Emergent, early, transitional, fluent
Early, emergent, transitional, fluent
Emergent, early, fluent, transitional
23
Which refers to an expression that has a unique meaning that differs from the literal meaning of its component words?
euphemism
proverb
idiom
abbreviation
24
The underlying message an author tries to convey to readers refers to which of the following?
theme
plot
conflict
moral
25
Editing involves
correcting surface features such as sentence fragments and spelling
adding illustrations, charts, and other useful addenda
fine tuning the underlying structure of the piece to make the theme pop
reconsidering ideas, adding and subtracting, changing underlying structure
26
Activating prior knowledge and shared reading are examples of what type of instructional concept?
Modeling
Inspiring
Assessing
Scaffolding
27
Using exact wording from select passages to formulate and answer questions is a technique known as
bricklaying
modeling
mirroring
scaffolding
28
Which of the following is a characteristic of written English rather than spoken?
Flexible word order
Sentence fragments
Inability to gauge understanding
Varied pacing
29
Which of the following refers to knowledge and skills used by experts in a particular field?
Domain
Procedural
Social
Physical
30
Examples of CVC words include
cat, tack, act
elephant, piano, examine
dog, sit, leg
add, pad, mad
31
How many generally accepted learning modalities are there?
4
3
5
2
32
The word endings s, ed, ing, en, er, and est are all types of which of the following?
Inflectional affixes
Derivational affixes
Greek roots
Latin roots
33
The following are not elements of cognition
A reader who is conscious about remembering what has been read
A reader's awareness of his or herself as a learner
A reader who can read with prosody
Understanding of a variety of reading strategies and how to apply them
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Which of the following is likely to occur the latest in a child?
blending and segmenting onsets and rimes
recognition of rhyming words
phonemic awareness
alliteration production
35
How many stages are included in the writing process?
5
4
2
3
36
The words stromatolites, fossiliferous, and eocene are:
ionization
academic words
content-specific words
alliteration
37
Texts that provide step by step directions for how to complete a task are known as
nonfiction
persuasive
procedural
expository
38
Which of the following describes a pair of words that are spelled the same but have different meanings?
cognates
homophones
homographs
palindromes
39
Which of the following is NOT a type of context clue?
synonym clue
antonym clue
deduction clue
inference clue
40
A domain specific word would fall into which word tier?
3
2
1
4
41
Which of the following describes words in different languages that share the same roots?
homophones
homographs
cognates
palindromes
42
Who of the following was a major founder of behaviorism?
Pavlov
Fountas
Pinnell
Goodman
43
Which of the following is NOT a common element of fluency?
uniformity
accuracy
prosody
rate
44
English language development is composed of how many main components?
3
6
4
5
45
"Decoding" is also called
deciphering
remediation
deconstruction
alphabetic principle
46
A teacher is teaching students analogizing. She is teaching them to
identify and use metaphors
identify and use groups of letters that occur in a word family
identify and use similes
identify and use figures of speech
47
Coarticulation affects
blending awareness
phonemic awareness
sequencing
aural awareness
48
Which of the following lists the levels of comprehension from GREATEST to LEAST?
Inferential, literal, evaluative
Literal, evaluative, inferential
Literal, inferential, evaluative
Evaluative, inferential, literal
49
Which of the following oral stages would an 18 month old child be expected to fall into?
one word
telegraphic
babbling
cooing
50
An assessment administered to measure existing knowledge before instruction and is scored in a standardized way.
summative and informal
formative and informal
screening and formal
diagnostic and formal
51
A 2nd grade student scored 3.2 grade equivalent score. Which is a correct evaluation of the results?
The student had the third highest score in 2nd grade
The student scored as well as an average third grader in the second month
The student scored 3 standard deviations above the score of a second grader
The student should be moved to 3rd grade
52
Which of the following would NOT be considered a consonant digraph?
/fr/
/ch/
/ng/
/th/
53
Context clues are useful in
understanding the meaning of words that are not familiar
predicting future action
reflecting on a text's theme
understanding character motivation
54
Another name for a persuasive essay is
Argumentative Essay
Dynamic Essay
Position Paper
Convincing Essay
55
Which of the following refers to knowledge learned by observing the features of something?
Procedural
Domain
Social
Physical
56
Verse, meter, rhythm, stanzas, and rhyme are all elements of which literary genre?
poetry
fantasies
historical fiction
mysteries
57
All of the following are types of faulty reasoning EXCEPT
illogical conclusions
opinions
personal bias
overgeneralizations
58
According to Piaget, children begin thinking in which way during the preoperational stage?
Abstractly
Logically
Symbolically
Reflexively
59
Which of the following in NOT a common metric used for analyzing the viability of a test?
bias
validity
difficulty
reliability
60
Syllable types include
stressed, unstressed, and silent
closed, midway, open, emphasized, prefixed and suffixed
closed, open, silent, double-vowel, and le
closed, open, silent e, vowel team, vowel-r, and consonant-le
61
Which of the following intervention schedules is most likely to be successful?
Every other Friday for two hours
Every Friday for one hour
Thirty minutes a day, three days a week
Fifteen minutes daily
62
Which of the following is a category of language delays and disorders?
invasive
receptive
additive
durative
63
Which of the following refers to understanding the social rules of language?
phonological skills
pragmatics
syntactic skills
morpjological skills
64
Examples of onomatopoeia are:
think, in, thin, ink
their, there, they're
drip, chirp, splash, giggle
sink, drink, mink, link
65
What is a story's resolution?
lowest point
highest or most dramatic point
outcome
plot
66
A fourth grade teacher had her students write haiku in order to promote students'
word identification skills
reading comprehension
confidence
vocabulary
67
Which of the following refers to the secondary meaning of a word that may have positive or negative associations?
Connotative
Empirical
Reciprocal
Denotative
68
When boosting reading comprehension, a student is likely to make all of the following connects except
text to world
text to teacher
text to text
text to self
69
The pairs of words sea and see, fair and fare, are called
Homographs
Antonyms
Twin Words
Homophones
70
An ORF is
An Oscar Reynolds Feinstein assessment
an Occasional Reading Function assessment
An Overt Reading Failure assessment
an Oral Reading Fluency assessment
71
When selecting appropriate texts for independent reading, teachers may instruct students to employ which rule?
three phase
five finger
two step
ten second
72
The tra in train and the br in brain are examples of
Consonant blend
Consonant shift
Continental shift
Consonant digraph
73
Which of the following literacies would likely include terms like budget, profit, expense, and revenue?
visual
financial
information
data
74
Which of the following choices will be most important when designing a reading lesson for students?
Analyze the point in the school year at which the lesson is given
Selecting a text
Determine the purpose for instruction
Determine the # of students participating
75
A syllable must contain
A meaning
A consonant
A vowel
Both a vowel and a consonant
76
The process of translating sounds to print using knowledge of letter-sound relationships is known as
blending
attenuation
decoding
encoding
77
The phrase "Pretty as a Picture" is BEST descried as a
metaphor
cliche
simile
figure of speech
78
Rapid word identification and automaticity typically develop around which age?
K-1st Grade
2nd-3rd grade
1st-2nd grade
4th-5th grade
79
Which genre is described as "modern day stories that are not true, but seem as though they could really happen?
historical fiction
fantasy
realistic fiction
autobiography
80
All of the following are methods used by teachers to motivate students to read, EXCEPT
Creating a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere
Providing incentives and rewards
Allowing students to choose books below their reading level
Designing daily time for reading
81
Phonological awareness activities are
visual
oral
semantically based
tactile
82
14 line poem, three stanzas of four lines each and a two line couplet at the end, rhyming
Sonnet
Sestina
Villanelle
Limerick
83
Verbal dyspraxia refers to
misplacement of letters within words
trouble with the physical act of writing
an inability to process verbal information
confusing word or sentence order while speaking
84
All of the following are characteristics of effective teaching methods for spelling EXCEPT
implicit
sequential
incremental
explicit
85
Text is generally considered to be at a student's frustration level when they read with less than what percent accuracy?
80
90
75
70
86
McGuffey Readers were introduced in which time period of American history?
1800s
1980s
1700s
1900s
87
Which of the following parts of speech is used for expressing emotion or reactions?
adjective
adverb
conjuction
interjection
88
Which of the following is NOT a common method of boosting reading comprehension in ELLs?
Allowing the students to read the text in their native language first
Implementing graphic organizers
Pre-teaching vocabulary
Previewing new texts through picture walks or text outlines
89
Which of the following occurs first in vocabulary development?
listening
reading
writing
speaking
90
Of the three tiers of words, the most important for direct instruction are
Tier one words
Tier two words
Common words
Words with Latin roots