Entry Exam Category: Graduate & Professional Program Admission Exams
Course: Praxis
Exam: Praxis Reading Language Arts 5002 Practice Test
Practice Question
Extract
A teacher passes out twenty slips of paper—half with the beginnings of ten different jokes and half with the corresponding punch lines—to twenty students. Students are then asked to mingle and converse until each has found the student whose paper corresponds with his or her own and until everyone has learned one new fact about his or her partner.
Which of the following best explains a primary benefit of the activity?
Answer Choices
- A: It improves students' inferential reading comprehension.
- B: It helps students learn to integrate humor into their writing.
- C: It gives students an opportunity to work on expressing their opinions clearly.
- D: It allows students to practice communicating with diverse partners.
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The activity fosters communication by having students mingle and share facts, promoting skills with diverse peers. Inferential reading isn't emphasized, as it's about matching, not text analysis. Humor integration is secondary, not primary. Opinion expression isn't a focus, as the task centers on fact-sharing.