Praxis Teaching Reading K-12 (5206)- Phonological and Phonemic Awareness, Including Emergent Literacy Sample Questions

Which of the following lists the four stages of reading development from earliest to latest? Emergent, early, transitional, and fluent Which of the following refers to knowledge and skills used by experts in a particular field? social, procedural, physical, or domain Domain Which of the following refers to knowledge learned by observing the features of something? social, procedural, physical, or domain Physical Which of the following is NOT a common element of fluency? Uniformity, rate, accuracy, prosody uniformity A book contains several lines of text per page with clearly defined spaces between each line, and some pages are composed entirely of text. Which of the following reading stages would this book be appropriate for? fluent, transitional, early, emergent Transitional What stage do readers display pre-reading behaviors? Emergent when a student displays these qualities, concepts of print, identify capital letters and lowercase letters, and understand the predictable relationships between letters and sounds what does this infer? pre reading behaviors What stage do readers develop oral language skills like phonological awareness (rhyming and alliteration), phonemic awareness skills (blend, segment, and manipulate phonemes within words)? emergent Phonemic awareness The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language. Phonological awareness knowledge of sounds and syllables and of the sound structure of words (rhyming and alliteration and syllables) What stage of readers love to be read to? emergent