IN Praxis 5007 Actual Exam Questions
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Which of the following statements best describes a student who has acquired
proficiency in reading automaticity?
A. The student effortlessly processes, decodes, and understands the written words in a
text.
B. The student reads sustained text with natural expression and appropriate phrasing.
C. The student recognizes text structure, apprehends meaning, and understands the
author's purpose.
D. The student adjusts reading rate based on comprehension demands and genre of
the text. - Option (A) is correct. Automaticity refers to a student's ability to process,
decode, and understand written words without effort.
The following excerpt is from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.
"I was led past the sphinx of white marble, which had seemed to watch me all the while
with a smile at my astonishment, toward a vast grey edifice of fretted stone."
Which of the following best describes the type of figurative language used in the
excerpt?
A. Idiom
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Personification
D. Metaphor - Option (C) is correct. The human characteristics of being able to "watch"
and "smile at" the narrator are attributed to an inanimate object, the statue.
Which of the following sentences demonstrates a comma being used after an
introductory phrase?
A. Buster is a strong, healthy dog.
B. No, you should not buy that shirt.
C. Anna wrote the winning paper, so she received the prize.
D. During the recital, many children were restless. - Option (D) is correct. The
introductory phrase, "During the recital," is offset by a comma.
Which of the following words is best classified as a high-frequency word for a
kindergarten student?
,A. Across
B. You
C. Myself
D. Since - Option (B) is correct. The word "you" is a commonly used high-frequency
sight word in texts at this grade level.
A kindergarten teacher prepares a literacy activity by writing "_at" on the board, then
asks students to come up to the board and place magnetic letters next to "at" to form
words. The activity best reinforces students' understanding of which of the following
concepts?
A. Onset and rime
B. Vowels and consonants
C. Syllables
D. Sight words - Option (A) is correct. The initial letter the students are adding to "at" is
called an onset, and the letters "at" are called the rime.
Which TWO of the following words can best be decoded by identifying a root word
within the larger word?
A. Snitch
B. Colossal
C. Endanger
D. Fashion
E. Lovely - Options (C) and (E) are correct. The larger word "endanger" can be decoded
by finding the root word "danger," and the larger word "lovely" can be decoded by
identifying the root word "love."
"Reckon I have," said Walter. "Almost died first year I come to school and et them
pecans—folks say he pizened 'em and put 'em over on the school side of the fence."
Which of the following best describes how the language in the excerpt is used to
characterize Walter?
A. The imagery in the passage allows the reader to visualize Walter's appearance.
B. The allusion in the passage informs the reader of an event that influenced Walter's
life.
C. The dialect in the passage presents the reader with insight into where Walter is from.
D. The dialogue in the passage makes the reader aware of Walter's feelings about his
community. - Option (C) is correct. This question tests your knowledge of dialect in
literature. Dialect refers to the language used by the people in a specific area, class, or
other group of people. Dialect involves the distinct spelling, sounds, grammar, and
pronunciation used by a particular group of people. Harper Lee uses dialect to support
the reader's understanding of Walter Cunningham, who is a poor southern farmer.
Which of the following pairs of words contains identical onsets?
, A. Scrape/skirt
B. Slip/slime
C. Sand/stand
D. Sting/sing - Option (B) is correct. The onset of a word is the initial phonological unit,
and in the words "slip" and "slime," the onset of "sl" is the same.
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. - Option (C) is correct.
While Sandy can read fluently and quickly, she "has difficulty answering questions about
what she has read," indicating a likelihood that she is neglecting to periodically stop to
assess or monitor her own comprehension.
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. - Option (C)
is correct. The grapheme "s" can sound like /z/, /s/, or /x/, or it may also be part of the
digraph "sh."
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 - Option (A) is correct.
The syntax of the sentence helps to determine what the word "lucrative" might mean.
Using the word "although" and arranging the sentence into two parts makes it clear that
whatever "lucrative" means, it must be the opposite of "can lose a lot of money."
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
