Praxis Practice Test Study exam questions and complete correct answers

phoneme segmentation - correct answer refers to the ability to break a word in to separate sounds, saying each sound as it is counted automacity - correct answer refers to a student's ability to process, de-code, and understand written words w/o effort phonological awareness - correct answer the decoding of unfamiliar words depends on the ability to associate sounds w/ written letters coat - coet bought - baught this student's spelling demonstrates which type of spelling development characteristic? - correct answer the ability to recognize words are made up of letter patterns representing sounds emergent literacy - correct answer the idea that children grow in to reading and writing w/ no real beginning or endpoint, develop concurrently and in interrelated ways. The learning process starts long before children enter school and does not depend on the mastery of letter-sound skills orthographic - correct answer the reader uses a visual process to see the letter pattern in words open syllable - correct answer ends in a vowel and the sound is long. ex. apron, remembering, vehicle, able rate - correct answer refers to the speed at which a text is read. purpose, genre, difficulty and prior knowledge all affect how quickly a text is read