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5006 Praxis ELA SSWhich of the following pairs of words contains identical onsets?
A. Scrap/Skirt
B. Slip/Slime
C. Sand/Stand
D. Sting/Sing - Answer -B. Slip/Slime
onset- same beginning sound with same spellling.
A student, Sandy, seems to love reading and reads very quickly. When reading individually, she is usually
the first one finished. During read-alouds, she volunteers often and enthusiastically, though the other
students struggle to understand her because she reads so fast. Her teacher has noticed, however, that
Sandy has difficulty answering questions about what she has read. Which of the following best describes
the problem Sandy is most likely having?
A. She is struggling with her reading rate, which is hindering her fluency.
B. She is struggling with fluency, which is hindering her comprehension.
C. She is struggling with monitoring her comprehension while reading.
D. She is struggling with prosody and accuracy while reading. - Answer -C. She is struggling with
monitoring her comprehension while reading.
Which of the following is a major challenge of teaching the decoding of /s/ to students in kindergarten?
A. Students cannot write to reinforce their learning.
,B. The /s/ sound is difficult to pronounce until age 7
C. It is not possible to assign just one sound to the grapheme of "s".
D. Students with varied dialects pronounce the grapheme of "s" differently. - Answer -C. It is not possible
to assign just one sound to the grapheme of "s".
A teacher writes the following sentence on the board.
Although sales can be a lucrative career, if you can't keep your customers, you can lose a lot of money.
To best help students determine the meaning of the word "lucrative" in the preceding sentence, the
teacher should have the students analyze the
A. Sentence structure to highlight the contrast
B. Sentence structure to highlight the analogy
C. Word structure to identify the root word and prefix
D. Word structure to identify both parts of the compound word - Answer -A. Sentence structure to
highlight the contrast
Which of the following parts of a citation is unique to online sources rather than to print-based sources?
A. Author's name
B. Date the site was accessed
C. Number of hits the site has received
D. Publisher and original publication date - Answer -B. Date the site was accessed
Although she gave hundreds of zucchini away, the enormous amount that was left over frightened her.
In the sentence, the word "although" serves as which of the following parts of speech?
A. adjective
B. interjection
C. preposition
D. conjunction - Answer -D. Conjunction
It is important to plan for emergencies and slack periods when operating a business. Many small
businesses fail because of a lack of capital, or a certain amount of working money, being available.
, Which of the following explains how the author uses context clues to provide the meaning of the word
"capital" in the preceding sentence?
A. By using examples
B. By providing a definition
C. By using descriptive words
D. By using opposites - Answer -B. By providing a definition
Which of the following pairs of words contains a consonant sound that cannot be represented by any
single letter?
A. "cradle" and "ceiling"
B. "crying" and "kindle"
C. "garage" and "vision"
D. "thumb" and "chick" - Answer -C. "garage" and "vision"
Which THREE of the following words contain an open syllable?
A. Different
B. Vehicle
C. Jungle
D. Fantastic
E. Remembering
F. Apron - Answer -B. Vehicle
E. Remembering
F. Apron
Which of the following activities will best help students develop articulation skills within oral
presentations?
Answer the question by selecting the correct response.
A. Reading aloud passages that include persuasive rhetoric
B. Reading aloud short rhyming poems, focusing on individual sounds within words
C. Reading aloud a script created from an excerpt of a narrative's dialogue
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