Reading + Language Arts
33%of exam
Mathematics
20%of exam
Social Studies
24%of exam
HistoryCivicsGeographyEconomics
Science
22%of exam
Earth ScienceLife SciencePhysical ScienceInquiry
Quick Facts
- Exam
- Praxis 5001
- Subtests
- 5002-5005
- Questions
- 245 total
- Time
- 4h 35m
- RLA
- 80 Q; 90m
- Math
- 50 Q; 65m
- Social
- 60 Q; 60m
- Science
- 55 Q; 60m
- Score
- 100-200 scale
Five Reading Pillars
PA Ph Vocab Flu Comp
Phonemic awarenessPhonicsVocabularyFluencyComprehension
Phonemic vs Phonics
Phonemic
- Spoken sounds
- No print needed
Phonics
- Letters plus sounds
- Print required
Sounds before symbols
Reading Intervention Picker
- Cannot hear sounds→Phonemic awareness
- Cannot decode print→Explicit phonics
- Slow accurate reading→Repeated reading
- Unknown academic words→Tier 2 instruction
- Weak text meaning→Comprehension strategy
- Long unfamiliar word→Morpheme analysis
Reading Pillars
- Phonemic awareness
- Spoken sound work
- Phonics
- Print-sound links
- Fluency
- Accuracy rate prosody
- Vocabulary
- Word knowledge
- Comprehension
- Construct meaning
- Decoding
- Print to speech
- Encoding
- Speech to spelling
- Automaticity
- Instant word recognition
Writing Process
Plan Draft Revise Edit Publish
PrewriteDraftReviseEditPublish
Blend vs Digraph
Blend
- Two sounds
- Each letter heard
Digraph
- One sound
- Two letters combine
Count sounds
Word Study
- Phoneme
- Smallest speech sound
- Grapheme
- Sound spelling
- Digraph
- Two letters one sound
- Blend
- Sounds stay separate
- VCe
- Long vowel marker
- Morpheme
- Meaningful word part
- Prefix
- Before root
- Suffix
- After root
Revise vs Edit
Revise
- Ideas improve
- Organization changes
Edit
- Conventions fixed
- Mechanics corrected
Meaning before mechanics
Comprehension
- Literal
- Text says
- Inferential
- Text implies
- Evaluative
- Judge evidence
- Theme
- Central message
- Main idea
- Big point
- Summary
- Essential points
- Text structure
- Author organization
- Schema
- Prior knowledge
Writing
- Prewriting
- Plan ideas
- Drafting
- Develop text
- Revising
- Improve content
- Editing
- Fix mechanics
- Publishing
- Share final
- Narrative
- Tell story
- Informative
- Explain topic
- Opinion
- Support claim
Mean vs Median
Mean
- Add then divide
- Outlier sensitive
Median
- Middle value
- Outlier resistant
Outliers change mean
Math Model Picker
- New concept→Manipulatives(Concrete)
- Bridge to symbols→Draw model(Representational)
- Show magnitude→Number line
- Multiply visually→Array
- Ratio comparison→Tape diagram
- Persistent mistake→Error analysis
Number Sense
- Place value
- Position value
- Base ten
- Powers of ten
- Rounding
- Nearest benchmark
- Estimation
- Reasonable answer
- Factor
- Multiplies into
- Multiple
- Product in sequence
- Prime
- Exactly two factors
- Composite
- More than two
Area vs Perimeter
Area
- Inside surface
- Square units
Perimeter
- Around boundary
- Linear units
Units reveal task
Fractions + Ratios
- Equivalent
- Same value
- Benchmark
- 0, half, one
- Add fractions
- Common denominators
- Multiply fractions
- Across numerators
- Divide fractions
- Reciprocal multiply
- Ratio
- Multiplicative comparison
- Percent
- Per hundred
- Unit rate
- Per one
Geometry + Data
- Perimeter
- Distance around
- Area
- Surface measure
- Volume
- Space inside
- Angle
- Two rays
- Line symmetry
- Mirror halves
- Mean
- Arithmetic average
- Median
- Middle value
- Mode
- Most frequent
Math Instruction
- CRA
- Concrete represent abstract
- Manipulatives
- Hands-on models
- Number line
- Magnitude model
- Array
- Multiplication model
- Area model
- Product visual
- Tape diagram
- Ratio model
- Error analysis
- Find misconception
- Math discourse
- Explain reasoning
Geography Themes
Location Place HEI Movement Region
LocationPlaceHuman environmentMovementRegion
Primary vs Secondary
Primary
- Firsthand record
- Original artifact
Secondary
- Later analysis
- Interprets evidence
Timing matters
History + Civics
- Primary source
- Firsthand evidence
- Secondary source
- Later interpretation
- Chronology
- Time order
- Declaration
- Independence claim
- Constitution
- Government framework
- Bill of Rights
- First ten amendments
- Legislative
- Makes laws
- Judicial
- Interprets laws
Geography + Economics
- Location
- Where it is
- Place
- Human physical traits
- Region
- Shared characteristics
- Movement
- People goods ideas
- Scale
- Map distance ratio
- Scarcity
- Limited resources
- Opportunity cost
- Next best forgone
- Supply demand
- Price forces
Heat Transfer
Touch Flow Rays
ConductionConvectionRadiation
Weather vs Climate
Weather
- Short-term conditions
- Changes daily
Climate
- Long-term pattern
- Averages decades
Time scale decides
Science Concept Picker
- Daily air conditions→Weather
- Thirty-year pattern→Climate
- New substance forms→Chemical change
- Only state changes→Physical change
- Test one factor→Controlled experiment
- Organism role→Niche
Earth + Life
- Weather
- Daily conditions
- Climate
- Long-term pattern
- Rotation
- Day night
- Revolution
- Year seasons
- Igneous
- Cooled magma
- Producer
- Makes food
- Consumer
- Eats organisms
- Decomposer
- Recycles nutrients
Physical vs Chemical
Physical
- Same substance
- Form changes
Chemical
- New substance
- Bonds change
New substance means chemical
Physical + Inquiry
- Matter
- Has mass volume
- Density
- Mass per volume
- Physical change
- No new substance
- Chemical change
- New substance
- Kinetic energy
- Motion energy
- Potential energy
- Stored energy
- Independent variable
- Changed factor
- Dependent variable
- Measured outcome
Common Traps
Sound vs Print
Oral sound task ≠ Letter-sound task
Fluency
Rate only ≠ Rate accuracy prosody
Fraction Addition
Add denominators ≠ Use common denominators
Units
Square for perimeter ≠ Square for area
Sources
Later summary ≠ Firsthand evidence
Civics Branches
Executive makes laws ≠ Legislative makes laws
Seasons
Distance from sun ≠ Axis tilt
Experiments
Change many variables ≠ Change one variable
Last Minute
- 1.5001 equals four subtests
- 2.RLA has 80 questions
- 3.Math has 50 questions
- 4.Science has 55 questions
- 5.Phonemic awareness is oral
- 6.Phonics requires print
- 7.Revise ideas; edit mechanics
- 8.Fractions need common denominators
- 9.Area uses square units
- 10.Primary sources are firsthand
- 11.Weather daily; climate long-term
- 12.Chemical change makes substance
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