Praxis Practice Test 1 Flashcards
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What is KWL?
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Graphical organizer designed to help in leaning. Parts: already know, want to know, ultimately learn.
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What is reciprocal reading?
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Structured method of guided reading for small groups
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What is SQ3R?
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Reading comprehension method. Parts: survey, question, read, recite, review.
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What are epigrams?
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Brief, interesting, satirical (funny) statement or poem.
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What are euphemisms?
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A word or expression used in place of an offensive word or phrase.
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What is denotation?
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Literal/primary meaning of a word
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What is a literature circle?
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Small group that gathers to discuss a book.
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What is think-pair-share?
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Cooperative learning strategy. Think for yourself, pair with a partner, and share your thoughts with each other.
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What is reciprocal teaching?
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Improve reading comprehension by teaching strategies to obtain meaning from a text.
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What is a mind map?
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Used to capture the thinking on the mind with a map to show ideas/way of thinking.
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What is a digital story?
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Share story online with a narrative storyline.
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What is emotional appeal?
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Direct way to sway audience emotions and uses emotions over logic to win the argument.
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What are loaded words?
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Significant emotional implications and involve positive/negative reactions beyond their literal meaning.
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What is snob appeal?
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Makes the case that using product will make consumer better/smarter/richer than everyone else.
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What is metonymy?
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Substitution of the name of an attribute.
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What are metrics?
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Combinations of stressed and unstressed syllables. Likely in a poem
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What is semantics?
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Study of reference, meaning, or truth.
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What is Middle English?
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Spoken after Norman Conquest of 1066 (1150-1470)
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What is Elizabethan English?
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Shakespeare timeframe (1500-1750)
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What is Early Modern English?
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Tutor period/Restoration period (15th -17th century)
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What is a self assessment rubric?
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Student assess, list of criteria for their work and they address it themselves.
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What is a primary trait scoring rubric?
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Score student products with primary traits that will be assessed. The rubric has a section for each of these primary traits.
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What is a semantic feature analysis?
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Therapy technique that focuses of the meaning - based properties of nouns.
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What is reciprocal learning?
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Cooperative learning strategy that aims to improve student’s reading comprehension skills.
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What is background building?
Helps students activate their existing foundation knowledge.
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What is annotation?
A note of explanation or comment added to the text.
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What is figurative language?
Type of communication that does not use a word’s struct or realistic meaning.
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What is sentence structure?
The subject and the predicate. It also involves the different types of sentence (simple, compound, complex, compound complex).
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What is modernist writing?
Free verse, “stream of consciousness”, numerous points of view included.
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What is realistic writing?
Represent truthfully, avoid fiction and supernatural.
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What is absurdist writing?
Non-chronological storytelling, surrealism, and comedy to explore themes like existentialism and human condition.
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What is the straw man fallacy?
When your opponent over-simplifies or misrepresents your argument to make it easier to attack/refute.
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What is the bandwagon fallacy?
When a significant population believe something, doesn’t make it true. Happens a lot with advertising.
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What is the appeal to authority fallacy?
Getting an authority figure to back you up in an argument.
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What is a false dilemma fallacy?
Misleads by presenting complex issues in terms of 2 inherently opposed sides.
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What is an analytic rubric?
Resembles a grid with the criteria for a student product listed in the leftmost column and with levels of performance listed across the top row with numbers or descriptive tags.
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What is a developmental rubric?
Subset of an analytical rubric. Designed to answer the question “to what extend are students developing”?
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What is a holistic rubric?
A single scale with all criteria to be included in the evaluation being considered together. Based on overall work.
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What is a checklist?
Only two performance levels are possible for grading (you either have it or you don’t). Longer than other rubrics. Rubrics can be made easily into a checklist.
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What does an electronic source need?
Date the source was accessed.
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What is code switching?
The ability to modify one’s language according to audience and purpose.
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What is the use of a checklist for?
A rubric for student mastery. Used in the editing stage of writing.
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What are language conventions?
Mechanics, sentence structure, and correct grammar
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How can you encourage student discussion?
Have a list of sample questions that relate to the text for students to use.
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How do you have productive participation in class?
Work in pairs to gain opinions that encourage individual accountability. Gives students a chance to share with others and think differently from other opinions.
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What is a journal entry?
Personal information and reflection. Mostly narrative
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How can students interact through a blog?
Leaving and responding to comments on the page.
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How do you make a parenthetical citation in MLA?
If authors name is in the sentence text, (page number). If authors name is not in the sentence text (authors name, page number).
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What is a bar graph?
Usually represents sizes of each group of something.
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What does the word “consequently” mean in a piece of writing?
Indicated a cause and effect relationship between two pieces inside the writing.
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What is the mode of writing?
Brainstorm situations to provide an opinion to establish purpose and directions for writing.
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What is appropriate format writing?
Audience, purpose, task.
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What is an example of active participation?
Annotate with questions and comments when reading a piece of work.
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How do you select credible source?
To verify information against other sources to see if it is credible.
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How do you assess writing from students?
Creating guidelines with students. They know what to expect this way and can feel involved in their learning.
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What is the jigsaw activity?
Small group discussion. Each group member reads a certain portion of the text and teaches the content to other members of the group.
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What does writing in a variety of forms do?
Targets philosophy of writing across the curriculum.
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What is an example of formative assessment in writing?
Hold writing conferences for rough drafts with students.
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What is a credible source?
An online peer-reviewed journal
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What is a Socratic seminar?
Student led discussions to share their thoughts. Formal discussion based on text. The teacher is the facilitator here.
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How should a teacher choose texts for class reading?
Based on student interests and abilities
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Why should you record presentations?
They go by fast. Allows for review to collaborate in small groups to analyze their effectiveness of the presentation.
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What is a .gov source like?
The most reliable source. Cannot be purchased by public domains, and have strict guidelines regulated by government rules.
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What should teachers provide for ELL students?
Provide visual aids, provide outlines of texts, allow students to make connections to their own cultures when discussing topics.
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What does interactions with books do for students?
Provide studnets with the ability to be more engaged.
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What are connotations?
Notions associated with a word that goes beyond the word’s explicit or denoted meaning.
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What is paralanguage?
Elements of speech that suggest meaning/ convey emotion.
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What is a primary source?
A Document or physical object during the time under study. (Ex. Speech, clothes)
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What is a semi-colon?
Used to separate lists of items that are separated by commas.
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What is a dictionary?
Word meanings, part of speech, etymology, among other things.
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What is a memoir?
Form of narrative writing, typically include a significant life event of the author.
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What is an analytic rubric?
Lists criteria dimensions of performance and describes level of proficiency for each dimension.
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What is a wiki?
Online tool for collaboratively creating or editing content.
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What is a personification?
Giving human like characteristics to non-human things.
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What is a psychoanalytic critic?
Dissecting psychology of characteristics.
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What is third person omniscient?
Tells what is happening in the scene and how the character feels. (Uses they, he, she, etc.)
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What is argumentative writing?
Persuasive, tries to get the reader to agree with the main point.
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When is a letter used for writing?
When addressing a specific audience about a particular topic.
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How should a slideshow page look?
Limit the information to essentials
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What are functional text used for/ look like?
Used to Inform, lists of instructions
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What are expository texts used for and what do they look like?
Used to inform. Has a cause and effect structure as well.
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What is parallel structure?
Phrases used in a parallel way to connect to sentences.
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What is a hyperbole?
An exaggeration to prove a point.
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What is vanity?
People who talk about themselves a lot
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What is first person POV?
Use of the word “I”
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What is an allusion?
Reference to bible, mythology, etc.
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What is a style manual?
Guidelines for documenting sources.
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What is a thesaurus?
Where synonyms can be found for words.
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Where should commas and periods go with quotes?
Go inside the quotations.
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What are context clues?
Found in sentences to help understand a word/phrase
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What is orthography?
Spellings of words in the English language - pronunciation
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What is old English?
Germanic language which gave us the most basic words (Beowulf is written in this)
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What is vernacular language?
Native language or dialect of specific population.
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What is a kinesthetic activity?
Interact with words by creating visual representation.
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What is a gerund phrase?
Verb ending in ‘ing’ used as a noun.
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What is denotation?
The definition of a word
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What is gothic fiction?
Grotesque, violent, mysterious and supernatural writing
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What is unrelated to evaluating an article itself?
The number of links to other sites
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What is simplistic writing?
Negative connotation, insufficiently complex approach
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What is a mock epic?
Elevated style of epic - epic conventions as invocations.
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What is a dramatic monologue?
Spoken by characters whose personality, motives, and circumstances shape the way he/she tells a story.
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What is a ballad?
Anonymous narrative poems, 4 line stanzas, ABAB rhyme
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What is a testimonial?
When a celebrity, expert, or satisfied customer endorses a product.
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Who wrote the Secret Life of Bees?
Sue Monk Kidd
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What is the Oxford English Dictionary used for?
Giving current/common definitions and the history of words
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What is the rhetorical strategy: description used for?
Use of details to create a picture in the head of the readers.
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What is reverent?
Barren, challenging, lonely, isolating (good words to describe it)
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What is a compound sentence?
Two or more independent clauses
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What is a sonnet?
14 lines, requisite rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter.
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What is an antagonist?
Opposing character in a literary drama
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What is the main idea of Anthem by Ayn Rand?
Main characters struggle to break free of his collectivist society and become an individual
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What is Tone (difficult meaning)?
Hard to understand, deal with, or manage. By using the word difficult, the tone is annoyed
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Who wrote the joy of luck club?
Amy Tan
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Who wrote the color purple?
Alice Walker
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Who wrote the woman warrior?
Maxine H. Kingston.
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Who wrote their eyes were watching god?
Zora Neale Hurston
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Who wrote Beloved?
Toni Morrison
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What is an anticipation guide?
A series of questions students are asked to respond to (agree/disagree) before a unit
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What is a haiku?
5 syllables in first line, 7 in second, and 5 in third. Normally about nature
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Who wrote leather stocking tales (main character was Natty Bumppo)?
James Cooper
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Who wrote Annabel Lee (about lost love)?
Edgar Allen Poe
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What is iambic pentameter?
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable.
