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PRAXIS II Reading across the Curriculum: Elementary Exam
The PRAXIS II Reading across the Curriculum: Elementary Exam is taken by candidates interested in teaching elementary students reading to elementary students. The exam consists of 60 multiple choice and three brief response questions. Candidates have two hours to complete the exam.
The Reading Comprehension brief response section of the exam covers word study strategies, the reading process, strategies to improve comprehension, bridging old and new information, and helping students improve their communication skills through reading and writing.
The Environment; Instruction; and Reading Materials brief response section of the exam covers vocabulary and spelling instruction, reading skills support, reading instruction approaches.
The Student Behavior and Student Assessment brief response section of the exam covers assessments, reading problems, and communicating student progress to parents and students.
The Vocabulary; Spelling; and Word Study section of the exam covers teaching vocabulary, decoding, sight words, spelling instruction, conceptual vocabulary, and the interrelatedness of phonemes and reading instruction.
The Reading Assessment section of the exam covers reading difficulties, communication with parents and students, self assessment, informal reading inventories, norm referenced tests, work samples, anecdotal records, reading comprehension, and letter sound relationships.
The Reading Comprehension section of the exam covers speech fluency, reading comprehension strategies, oral and silent reading, word definition strategies, modeling, questioning, and scaffolding.
The Materials; Instruction; and the Environment section of the exam covers student communication skills, flexible grouping, reading motivation, environment, involving parents, literary genres, materials, student creativity, and interest in reading.
The Early Literacy and Language Acquisition section of the exam covers influences of intellectual, environmental, cultural, social, emotional and physical development on linguistic growth and reading; the thinking, seeing, listening, speaking, reading and writing connection; cognition, learning, social interaction, oral and written language development; semantics, syntax and phonological components.