Pass the Praxis 5001: 5002 Rdg, 5003 Math, 5004 SS, 5005 Sci

Introduction to the Praxis 5002: Reading and Language Arts Subtest of the Praxis 5001 with questions, categories and test-taking strategies.

I.A1a: Explains the importance of phonological awareness as a foundational skill for literacy development.

I.A1b: Identifies and provides examples of phonemes, syllables, onsets, and rimes.

I.A1c: Identifies and provides examples of blending, segmenting, substituting, and deleting phonemes, syllables, onsets, rimes

I.A2a: Explains the importance of phonics and word analysis in literacy development.

I.A2b: Distinguishes among common letter-sound correspondences and spelling conventions.

I.A2c: Distinguishes high-frequency sight words from decodable words appropriate for particular grades.

I.A2d: Identifies roots and affixes to decode unfamiliar words.

I.A2e: Recognizes various stages of language acquisition (e.g., WIDA taxonomy).

I.A2f: Delineates common phonics and word-recognition approaches for ELLs (pedagogy).

I.A2g: Differentiates syllabication patterns (e.g., open, closed, C-le).

I.A3a: Defines fluency and related terms (e.g., accuracy, rate, prosody).

I.A3b: Explains the impact of fluency on comprehension.

I.B1a: Identifies the key details, moral, and/or theme of a literary text, citing specific textual evidence.

I.B1b: Identifies the key details and/or central idea of an informational text, citing specific textual evidence.

I.B1c: Makes inferences from a text and supports them with appropriate evidence.

I.B1d: Summarizes information from a text.

I.B1e: Analyzes the characters, setting, and plot of a literary text.

I.B1f: Analyzes the relationships among individuals, events, ideas, and concepts in an informational text.

I.B2a: Identifies structural elements of literature across genres (e.g., casts of characters and stage directions in drama, rhyme and meter in poetry).

I.B2b: Uses text features (e.g., headings, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information in a print or digital informational text.

I.B2c: Identifies organizational structures of informational text (e.g., cause/effect, problem/solution).

I.B2d: Identifies how structural elements contribute to the development of a literary text as a whole.

I.B3a: Identifies author’s point of view in various genres and supports conclusions with evidence from the text.

I.B3b: Compares multiple accounts of the same event or topic to identify similarities or differences in point of view.

I.B3c: Identifies how point of view impacts the overall structure of a literary or informational text.

I.B4a: Explains how visual and oral elements enhance the meaning and effect of a literary text
(e.g., picture book, graphic novel, multimedia presentation of a folktale).

I.B4b: Compares the written version of a literary text with an oral, staged, or filmed version.

I.B4c: Compares two or more literary texts that address the same theme.

I.B4d: Compares two or more informational texts that address the same topic.

I.B4e: Interprets visual and multimedia elements in literary and informational texts.

I.B4f: Evaluates key claims in a text and supports them with reasons and evidence from the text.

I.B5a: Explains the three factors (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, and reader and task) that measure text complexity.

I.B5b: Identifies features of text-leveling systems.

II.A1a: Distinguishes among common types of writing (e.g., opinion/argument, informative/explanatory, narrative)

II.A1b: Identifies the purpose, key components, and subgenres (e.g., speeches, advertisements, narrative poems) of each common type of writing.

II.A1c: Evaluates the effectiveness of writing samples of each type.

II.A2a: Evaluates the appropriateness of a particular piece of writing for a specific task, purpose, and audience.

II.A2b: Evaluates the development, organization, or style of a piece of writing.

II.A2c: Identifies appropriate revisions to strengthen a piece of writing.

II.A2d: Writes clearly and coherently.

II.A2e: Identifies the interrelationships among planning, revising, and editing in the process of writing.

II.A3a: Identifies the grade-appropriate continuum of student writing.

II.A4a: Identifies the characteristics and purposes of a variety of digital tools for producing and publishing writing.

II.A4b: Identifies the purposes of a variety of digital tools for interacting with others.

II.A5a: Identifies the steps in the research process.

II.A5b: Distinguishes between primary and secondary sources and their uses.

II.A5c: Distinguishes between reliable and unreliable sources.

II.A5d: Distinguishes between paraphrasing and plagiarizing.

II.A5e: Knows how to locate credible print and digital sources, locate information within the sources, and cite the sources.

II.B1a: Explains the function of different parts of speech.

II.B1b: Corrects errors in usage, mechanics, and spelling

II.B1c: Identifies examples of different sentence types (e.g., simple, compound, compound-complex).

II.B1d: Identify how varieties of English (e.g., dialects, registers) used in stories, dramas, or poems support the overall meaning.

II.B2a: Determines the literal meaning of unknown words and phrases from context, syntax, and/or knowledge of roots and affixes.

II.B2b: Identifies types of figurative language.

II.B2c: Interprets figurative language.

II.B2d: Analyzes the relationship between word choice and tone in a text.

II.B3a: Differentiates among the three tiers of vocabulary.

II.B3b: Identifies relevant features of language such as word choice, order, and punctuation.

II.C1a: Identifies techniques to communicate for a variety of purposes with diverse partners.

II.C1b: Identifies the characteristics of active listening.

II.C2a: Identifies elements of engaging oral presentations (e.g., volume, articulation, awareness of audience).

1. Writes numbers using base-10 numerals, number names, and expanded form.

2. Composes and decomposes multi-digit numbers.

3. Given a digit, identifies the place the digit is in and its value in that place

4. Recognizes that a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right

and one-tenth what it represents in the place to its left, and extends this recognition to several places to the right or left

5. Uses whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10

6. Rounds multi-digit numbers to any place value

Identifies different problem situations for the operations (e.g., adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing for subtraction)

Uses the relationship between addition and subtraction and the relationship between multiplication and division to solve problems (e.g., inverseoperations)

Interprets remainders in division problems

Understands various strategies and algorithms used to perform operations on rational numbers

Identifies examples where multiplication does not result in a product greater than both factors and division does not result in a quotient smaller than the dividend

Composes and decomposes fractions, including the use of unit fractions

Recognizes that the value of a unit fraction decreases as the value of the denominator increases

Recognizes that the same whole must be used when comparing fractions

Solves problems using the order of operations, including problem involving whole-number exponents

Identifies properties of operations (e.g., commutative, associative, distributive) and uses them to solve

problems

Uses, interprets, and explains concrete models or drawings of the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of rational numbers

Represents rational numbers and sums and differences of rational numbers on a number line

Illustrates and explains multiplication and division problems using equations, rectangular arrays, and area

models

Compares, classifies, and orders rational numbers

Converts between fractions, decimals, and percents

Applies the concepts of ratios and unit rates to describe relationships between two quantities

Understands percent as a rate per 100

Solves unit-rate problems

Uses proportional relationships to solve ratio and percent problems

Identifies and uses prime and composite numbers

Finds factors and multiples of numbers

Recognizes the reasonableness of results within the context of a given problem

Differentiates between algebraic expressions and equations

Adds and subtracts linear algebraic expressions

Uses the distributive property to generate equivalent linear algebraic expressions

Evaluates simple algebraic expressions (i.e., one variable, binomial) for given values of variables

Uses mathematical terms to identify parts of expressions and describe expressions

Translates between verbal statements and algebraic expressions or equations (e.g., the phrase “the number of cookies Joe has is equal to twice the number of cookies Sue has” can be represented by the equation ? = 2? )

Uses formulas to determine unknown quantities

Differentiates between dependent and independent variables in formulas

Solves multistep one-variable linear equations and inequalities

Interprets solutions of multistep one-variable linear equations and inequalities (e.g., graphs the solution

on a number line, states constraints on a situation)

Uses linear relationships represented by equations, tables, and graphs to solve problems

Identifies, extends, describes, or generates number and shape patterns

Makes conjectures, predictions, or generalizations based on patterns

Identifies relationships between the corresponding terms of two numerical patterns (e.g., find a rule

for a function table)

Uses definitions to identify lines, rays, line segments, parallel lines, and perpendicular lines

Classifies angles based on their measure

Composes and decomposes two- and three-dimensional shapes

Uses attributes to classify or draw polygons and solids

Represents three-dimensional figures with nets

Uses nets that are made of rectangles and triangles to determine the surface area of three-dimensional figures

Finds the area and perimeter of polygons, including those with fractional side lengths

Finds the volume and surface area of right rectangular prisms, including those with fractional edge lengths

Determines how changes to dimensions change area and volume

Identifies the x-axis, the y-axis, the origin, and the four quadrants in the coordinate plane

Solves problems by plotting points and drawing polygons in the coordinate plane

Solves problems involving elapsed time, money, length, volume, and mass

Measures and compares lengths of objects using standard tools

Knows relative sizes of United States customary units and metric units

Converts units within both the United States customary system and the metric system

Identifies statistical questions

Solves problems involving measures of center (mean, median, mode) and range

Recognizes which measure of center best describes a set of data

Determines how changes in data affect measures of center or range

Describes a set of data (e.g., overall patterns, outliers)

Interprets various displays of data (e.g., boxplots, histograms, scatterplots)

2. Identifies, constructs, and completes graphs that correctly represent given data (e.g., circle graphs,

bar graphs, line graphs, histograms, scatterplots, double bar graphs, double line graphs, boxplots, and

line plots/dot plots)

3. Chooses appropriate graphs to display data

Interprets probabilities relative to likelihood of occurrence

Knows European exploration and colonization in United States history and growth and expansion of the

United States

Knows about the American Revolution and the founding of the nation in United States history

Knows the major events and developments in United States history from founding to present (e.g., westward expansion, industrialization, Great Depression)

Knows about twentieth-century developments and transformations in the United States (e.g., assembly line, space age)

Understands connections between causes and effects of events

Understands the nature, purpose, and forms (e.g., federal, state, local) of government

Knows key documents and speeches in the history of the United States (e.g., United States Constitution,

Declaration of Independence, Gettysburg Address)

Knows the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy

Knows world and regional geography (e.g., spatial terms, places, regions)

Understands the interaction of physical and human systems (e.g., how humans change the environment, how the environment changes humans, importance of natural and human resources)

Knows the uses of geography - (e.g., apply geography to interpret past, to interpret present, to plan for

future)

Know how people of different cultural backgrounds interact with their environment, family, neighborhoods, and communities

Knows the major contributions of classical civilizations (e.g., Egypt, Greece, Rome)

Understands twentieth-century developments and transformations in world history

Understands the role of cross-cultural comparisons in world history instruction

Knows key terms and basic concepts of economics (e.g., supply and demand, scarcity and choice, money

and resources)

Understands how economics affects population, resources, and technology

Understands the government’s role in economics and the impact of economics on government

Understands the structure of the Earth system (e.g., structure and properties of the solid Earth, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere)

Understands processes of the Earth system (e.g., processes of the solid Earth, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere)

Understands Earth history (e.g., origin of Earth,paleontology, the rock record)

Understands Earth and the universe (e.g., stars and galaxies; the solar system and planets; Earth, Sun, and Moon relationships)

Understands Earth patterns, cycles, and change

Understands science as a human endeavor, a process, and a career

Understands science as inquiry (e.g., questioning, gathering data, drawing reasonable conclusions)

Understands science as a human endeavor, a process, and a career

Understands the unifying processes of science (e.g., systems, order, organization)

Understands the structure and function of living systems (e.g., living characteristics and cells, tissues and organs, life processes)

Understands reproduction and heredity (e.g., growth and development, patterns of inheritance of traits, molecular basis of heredity)

Understands change over time in living things (e.g., life cycles, mutations, adaptation and natural selection)

Understands regulation and behavior (e.g., life cycles, responses to external stimuli, controlling the internal environment)

Understands unity and diversity of life, adaptation, and classification

Understands the interdependence of organisms (e.g., ecosystems, populations, communities)

Knows about personal health (e.g., nutrition, communicable diseases, substance abuse)

Understands the physical and chemical properties and structure of matter (e.g., changes of states, mixtures and solutions, atoms and elements)

Understands forces and motions (e.g., types of motion, laws of motion, forces and equilibrium)

Understands energy (e.g., forms of energy, transfer and conservation of energy, simple machines)

Understands interactions of energy and matter (e.g., electricity, magnetism, sound)