Praxis Early Childhood Education 5025 Q&A Exam Compilation

What is the point of having students brush their teeth every day? To remove plaque from teeth, not to get rid of all bacteria in the mouth How would an art teacher teach students to emulate the work of impressionist artists? Use cotton balls and bright color paint What would a PE teacher do fo...

Which of the following best describes energy that is produced by vibrations and travels only through a medium? • A.Gravitational potential • B.Light • C.Sound • D.Heat C Which of the following organisms has a body consisting of a head, a thorax, and an abdomen? • A.Starfish • B....

Phonics The study of the acoustical in articulatory characteristics of human speech sounds Phonological awareness Refers to the awareness of the sounds that make up a spoken language. It is an understanding of the relationship between spoken and written language. Phonological awareness Focuses...

Cardinal numbers Numbers indicating quantity. This type of number answers the question "how many?" Ordinal numbers This type of number tells us the position of something in a list. Nominal numbers This type of number is one used only as a name or to identify something (e.g. a zip code, the n...

AA teacher reads aloud "Where the Wild Things Are", a picture storybook in which a boy named max encounters wild monsters that are vividly portrayed. The teacher then shows the students picture cards depicting scenes from the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Which of the following concepts...

In EC development in the area of interpersonal interactions, which do children typically develop first? a. autonomy/independence b. trusting/mistrusting others c. a sense of initiative or guilt d. make-believe/pretending B What is true about instructing children in conflict resolution skills...

Diagraph Two *letters* that spell *one* sound (sh, ch) Blend Two or more consonants, when combined make a certain sound and two sounds are heard (bl). Dipthong Two vowels, when combined make a certain *sound* and not necessarily the sound of either vowel present (oy, ow). Onset The initial ...

Phonemic Awareness The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words Simple Sentence example The line for the canteen stretched around the corner. simple sentence A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause compound senten...

Which of the following is most effective in helping young children develop phonological awareness? A.Singing songs with simple rhymes B.Singing the alphabet song C.Using large markers to print letters D.Looking for environmental print A ** A first-grade student, Kyle, has drawn an elaborate p...

John Amos Comenius Father of early childhood Said that, "children learn best when knowledge is personally relevant and that concrete experiences must precede abstract tasks" Age 6 is highest importance in human development developmentally appropriate practice grounded in the research on h...

Steps of the writing process Prewriting -> writing (drafting) -> revising -> editing -> publishing Prewriting step of writing process Choose topic, select purpose, collect facts, brainstorm/organize ideas Writing (drafting) step of writing process Rough draft, put ideas into senten...

simile as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox alliteration the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words blending In linguistics, a blend[ed] word is one formed from parts of two or more other words. Brunch A prekindergarten teacher sends h...

Oral Language acquisition Pre-linguistic birth-10 months: discriminate speech from other sounds Discover phonemes: /ma/ /ba/ etc. 1 month: start crying or producing sounds to convey information (hungry, hurt etc) Cooing in response to pleasure 6 months: babbling phase 9-10 Months: intonation ...

Which of the following will best foster the development of student's listening skills? Asking students to summarize a short paragraph that thr travher read aloud Third-grade students are creating a story map as they read about the donkey Sylvester, who has turned into a rock. The most important ...