A second-grade teacher wants to help her students enrich their vocabulary. She's noticed that their writing journals are filled with serviceable but unexciting verbs such as 'said' and 'went,' and general rather than specific nouns. The most effective lesson would involve:

Many U.S. states use the Praxis Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects Exam to assess educators' knowledge and readiness to teach a variety of subjects at the elementary level. The Praxis 5001 exam covers four subjects : reading and language arts, social studies, math, and science.

Special topics include writing types, basic economics, mathematical patterns, geomorphology, and much more. It also covers literary text elements, major events in U.S. history, government systems, statistical and probability concepts, fluency in education, and the structure of matter.