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Praxis 7812 Questions and Answers Latest Version with Certified Solutions
What do we call the letters and punctuation at the beginning and end of a sentence that help us understand how it’s read?✔✔ Sentence boundaries
What reading skill helps students figure out words they’ve never seen before by breaking them into parts?✔✔ Decoding
What does it mean when a student reads a word automatically without sounding it out?✔✔ Word recognition
If a student uses context clues to figure out what a word means, what strategy are they using?✔✔ Vocabulary inference
What is the first thing a student should do when trying to understand a new text?✔✔ Preview the text 1 / 4
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What is the term for changing the pitch and tone of your voice when reading aloud?✔✔ Prosody
What is an example of an onset in the word "dog"?✔✔ /d/
What is the rime in the word “bat”?✔✔ -at
What is a homophone?✔✔ Words that sound the same but have different meanings or spellings
If a student writes “mi” for “my,” what kind of spelling is this?✔✔ Invented spelling
What do good readers do when something they read doesn’t make sense?✔✔ Reread 2 / 4
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What part of speech is the word “quickly” in the sentence “She ran quickly”?✔✔ Adverb
What is the name of the book part that lists chapters and their page numbers?✔✔ Table of contents
What is the main purpose of reading comprehension instruction?✔✔ To help students understand and think about what they read
What type of sentence is “Can you help me?” ✔✔ Interrogative
What does a student practice when they summarize a paragraph?✔✔ Identifying the main idea
Which part of a story introduces the characters and setting?✔✔ Beginning or exposition 3 / 4
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If a student says “goed” instead of “went,” what kind of error is that?✔✔ Overgeneralization
What does it mean to “skim” a passage?✔✔ Quickly look for the main idea
What is the opposite of a synonym?✔✔ Antonym
What tool do students use to organize their thoughts before writing?✔✔ Graphic organizer
What do we call writing that explains or gives information?✔✔ Expository writing
What is an example of figurative language used to compare two things using “like” or “as”?✔✔ Simile
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