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Praxis II Elementary Education Content Knowledge Test Questions
I. Language Arts
1. By the initial reading development stage, children should be able to do all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Recognize letters of the alphabet
B. Know sounds associated with each letter
C. Experiment with letters
D. Read without sounding out each letter
E. Blend consonants and vowels to create simple, 3-letter words
2. All of the following statements are true of phonics EXCEPT:
A. Phonological awareness can be enhanced with rhyming.
B. Phonics is a method of reading instruction that breaks language down into its simplest components.
C. Teaching phonics often involves segmenting words.
D. Phonics strongly emphasizes the sounds of letters.
E. Phonics is taught using real literature and whole language instruction.
II. Mathematics
3. Which of the following numbers completes this pattern?
4, 6, 10, 16, 24, ___
A. 32
B. 26
C. 28
D. 34
E. 38
4. A birthday cake with 20 pieces was divided between 10 guests. Five of the guests had one piece, four guests two pieces, and two of the guests split a piece. What percentage of the cake remained?
A. 24%
B. 30%
C. 25%
D. 6%
E. 14%
III. Social Studies
5. Which of the following is the United States' largest lake, both in surface area and volume of water?
A. Lake Michigan
B. Lake Okeechobee
C. Red Lake
D. Lake Superior
E. Iliamna Lake
6. All of the following are an example of natural resources EXCEPT:
A. steel
B. water
C. coal
D. air
E. animals
IV. Science
7. When gravity pushes the layers of air down on the earth's surface, this push is called:
A. jet stream
B. stratosphere
C. air pressure
D. atmosphere
E. wind circulation
8. When driving forces and resisting forces are in balance with each other, a system is in a state of what?
A. Threshold
B. Equilibrium
C. Force
D. Boundary
E. Gravity
9. The composition of the atmosphere consists of all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Nitrogen
B. Oxygen
C. Argon
D. Carbon Dioxide
E. Sulfur
10. Fossils play an important role in learning about past organisms, as well as:
A. the environment present when the organisms were alive
B. the origin and age of the earth
C. evolution
D. weather patterns from millions of years ago
E. climate change
Praxis II Elementary Education Content Knowledge Test Answer Key