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Praxis II Elementary Education: Content Knowledge Exam Prep - Question List

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26. Which of the following causes tides?
  1. The moon’s gravitational pull on the earth’s surface
  2. The earth’s gravitational pull on the moon’s surface
  3. Wind
  4. Sea life
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27. Mrs. Sparklenose is reading a Junie B. Jones book to her second-grade class. Since this is a trade book, she wants to incorporate a lesson plan to make it somewhat educational. Which of the following activities would work best in order to enhance the students’ literary analysis skills?
  1. Before reading the story, ask the students to predict what will happen in the book based on the title.
  2. After reading the story, ask the students to help you make a concept map to map the main events in the story.
  3. After reading the story, ask the students to draw a picture about their favorite part of the story.
  4. Arrange the students into small groups where they will each take turns reading a page of the story aloud.
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28.

A second-grade teacher asks a student to read several written words and then to read a paragraph containing each word. While assessing the student’s reading skills, she notices he does better reading the paragraph than he does reading the words individually. Which of the following best describes the student’s reading abilities? Choose all that apply.

  1. The student has poor individual word decoding skills
  2. The student does well recognizing context cues
  3. The student does not recognize semantic cues
  4. None of the above
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29. Stephanie walked 2miles. How many feet did she walk?
  1. 5,280
  2. 10,560
  3. 2,645
  4. 1,056
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30. Which of the following shows correct sentence structure?
  1. She forgot to iron her skirt therefore she looked like a crumpled piece of paper.
  2. She forgot to iron her skirt; therefore, she looked like a crumpled piece of paper.
  3. She forgot to iron her skirt therefore-she looked like a crumpled piece of paper.
  4. She forgot to iron her skirt; therefore: she looked like a crumpled piece of paper.
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