Entry Exam Category: Graduate & Professional Program Admission Exams
Course: Praxis
Exam: Praxis 5002 Reading Practice Questions
Practice Question
Which THREE of the following statements best describe how improved fluency impacts a student's comprehension?
Answer Choices
- A: Students experience greater comprehension and ability to make connections to the text.
- B: Students are able to monitor intonation and punctuation to understand meaning of the text.
- C: Students are able to focus on the meaning ofthe text rather than on laboring through reading the words.
- D: Students experience a neutral effect on their comprehension but develop a faster reading rate.
- E: Students are able to recall facts at a higher rate as they gain automaticity.
Correct Answer: A,B,C
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.