Free Praxis 5205 Exam Prep

Phonological vs. phonemic awareness, the phonological awareness continuum, blending, segmenting, phoneme isolation and manipulation, concepts of print, oral language, and emergent literacy predictors.

The alphabetic principle, systematic and explicit phonics, syllable types and division, digraphs, blends, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, schwa, orthographic mapping, decodable text, dyslexia, and decoding-encoding reciprocity.

Accuracy, rate, and prosody; automaticity; repeated reading; Tier 1/2/3 vocabulary; morphology and structural analysis; context clues; Greek and Latin roots; and semantic relationships.

Simple View of Reading, Scarborough's Reading Rope, comprehension strategies, text structure and features, main idea, theme, inference, comprehension monitoring, background knowledge, and the science of reading.

Encoding and phoneme-grapheme mapping, spelling generalizations, sentence construction, the writing process, paragraph structure, conventions, rubrics, and the reading-writing connection.

Screening, diagnostic, progress-monitoring, and outcome assessment; MTSS/RTI; error and miscue analysis; nonsense-word measures; differentiation; data-based decision making; and instructional next steps.