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Praxis II English Language Arts Content Knowledge (5038) Exam: Reading Practice
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Praxis II English Language Arts Content Knowledge (5038) Exam: Reading Practice
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1. Which of the following do The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe have in common?
2. Which of the following is most accurate regarding writing style?
3. When students are taught to use effective reading comprehension strategies, they not only achieve deeper understanding, but they also learn to think about how they think when reading. This is known as…
4. The source of the silent b in the English word debt was originally…
5. The following sentence is which of the following sentence types?
The questions in this test can give you an idea of what kinds of questions you might find on the actual test; however, they are not duplicates of the actual test questions, which cover the same subject material but may differ in form and content.
6. Which of the following is an example of a portmanteau?
7. Of the following statements, which adheres to Information Literacy standards?
8. In the 1984 comedy movie All of Me, a character from another country, who has no experience with either telephones or flush toilets, flushes a toilet and then a phone rings. He flushes again and the phone rings again. After this occurs several times, the character concludes that pulling the toilet's flush handle causes the ringing. This is an example of which type of cognitive bias?
9. Which of the following works was the first ever published in vernacular Italian?
10. Research has found that which of the following occur for students during revision and rewriting?
11. Which choice most appropriately fills the blanks in this statement?
'Teaching children which thinking strategies are used by ________ and helping them use those strategies ________ creates the core of teaching reading.' (Mosaic of Thought, Keene and Zimmerman, 1997)
12. Which of the following statements is most accurate about writing the introduction to an essay?
13. Which of the following pairs are NOT both written in the form of frame tales?
14. Which of the following have researchers learned about children's writing?
15. We are familiar with the modern English meanings of the word 'disaster.' But in the 16th century, this word meant…
16. In writing, ______ is the overall written expression of the writer's attitude, and ______ is the individual way in which the writer expresses the former.
17. In the model known in reading instruction as the Three Cueing Systems, which of these relate most to how sounds are used to communicate meaning?
18. Which of the following correctly represents the sequence of stages or steps in the writing process?
19. When you have a writing assignment, which of the following is true about your audience?
20. Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding the characters of Drouet and Hurstwood in Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie?
21. Which of the following was the author of The Pilgrim's Progress?
22. Of the following sentences, which one appeals to emotion?
23. Which of the following processes used in writing is the most complex?
24. Of the following works by Alexander Pope, which of the following is a didactic poem?
25. Activity settings (Tharp and Gallimore, 1988) are aspects of the sociocultural context that affect how students learn and read. Of five activity settings, one is participant identity, or who the students are. Of the other four, which is most related to motivation?