Entry Exam Category: Graduate & Professional Program Admission Exams
Course: Praxis
Exam: Praxis Reading Language Arts 5002 Practice Test
Practice Question
In early literacy instruction, an understanding of phonics primarily helps students do which of the following?
Answer Choices
- A: Develop an increasingly large vocabulary
- B: Learn how to recognize common sight words
- C: Develop strategies to determine the meaning of words from context
- D: Learn the skills necessary for decoding unfamiliar words
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Phonics teaches letter-sound relationships, enabling decoding of unfamiliar words. Vocabulary, sight words, and context clues are related but secondary, making D correct.