Praxis 5002 Reading Practice Questions

Rationale: Improved fluency enhances comprehension by allowing readers to allocate cognitive resources to understanding rather than decoding. A is correct as fluency supports deeper text connections and inferences. B is accurate because prosody in fluent reading aids interpretation through intonation and punctuation. C is right as it frees focus from word recognition to meaning. D is wrong; fluency positively affects comprehension, not neutrally, while rate is one component. E is incorrect; recall benefits from comprehension strategies, not directly from automaticity, which aids processing but not fact retention primarily. Fluency integrates rate, accuracy, and prosody for overall understanding.

Rationale: Rime is vowel and following consonants. In Mock, rime 'ock' underlined, common in phonics. Cat 'at' not specified underlined. Throw 'ow' diphthong, not typical underlined rime. Dance 'ance' complex, not standard underlined. Underlined rime in Mock highlights family for blending.

Rationale: Supportive environment values native language, reduces anxiety, promotes natural English use. Audiotapes lack interaction. Grammar tutoring ignores communication. Same-language group delays English exposure. Accepting setting motivates risk-taking in learning.

Rationale: Twice has /t/ /w/ /ai/ /s/, four phonemes. One or two undercount sounds. Five confuses letters with sounds. Phonemes are speech units, diphthong /ai/ one sound.

Rationale: Deletion removes initial /k/ from clock to lock. Blending combines. Segmenting isolates. Substituting replaces. Deletion manipulates by omission.