Praxis Teaching Reading: Elementary case studies
Praxis Teaching Reading: Elementary · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Teaching Reading: Elementary (5205) is a Praxis Subject Assessment from ETS used by states and educator preparation programs as part of the licensure process for reading teachers. ETS describes the test as being "For a beginning teacher to support reading and writing development in kindergarten through sixth-grade students," so the intended candidate is someone preparing to teach literacy in elementary grades, typically K–6. The Praxis Teaching Reading: Elementary case studies are 5 cases and about 2,727 words.
1The Kindergarten Grouping Decision
Okafor teaches kindergarten in a school with 24 students per class and a 20-minute daily small-group block. The fall universal screener shows six students who know 40 or more letter names but score at or below the 10th percentile on phoneme segmentation fluency (PSF).
585 words, about 3 min2Accurate but Slow: Fluency or Comprehension First?
Marcus is a second grader in January. On a grade-level curriculum-based measure he reads 94% accurate at 32 words correct per minute and answers 4 of 8 comprehension questions correctly.
545 words, about 3 min3Choosing Which Words to Teach Before the Volcano Text
Liu's third graders will read a three-page science text on volcanoes. She has flagged 12 words: lava, magma, erupt, vent, crater, crust, mantle, pressure, beneath, surface, ash, fertile.
517 words, about 3 min4When the Tier 2 Data Look Flat
A fourth-grade Tier 2 group of five students receives 30 minutes of scripted fluency intervention three times weekly. Baseline median oral reading fluency (ORF) is 45 words correct per minute.
538 words, about 3 min5From Copied Notes to Causal Explanation
Alvarez's fifth graders are studying the causes of the American Revolution. In their notebooks they copy definitions and dates from slides; on the last assessment, 22 of 28 students listed facts such as 'Stamp Act, 1765,' but fewer than half explained how a tax led to colonial resistance.
542 words, about 3 min