Official exam: Praxis Elementary Education: Reading and Language Arts (5002)
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Praxis Elementary Education: Reading and Language Arts (5002): a 145-question practice bank for the real Teacher Certification (Praxis) standard, 3 full papers of 50 questions each with no repeats, every question written to the exam sponsor's published content outline.
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Every question in this bank cites a source -- primarily CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1–RL.4.7 (37%) and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1–W.4.9 (35%) of this exam's citations.
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A. The players stored their uniforms after the game.
B. The committee announced its decision.
C. Each bicycle has its own identification number.
D. Both gardens changed its watering schedule.
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: D. Both gardens changed its watering schedule.
The plural antecedent Both gardens requires the plural possessive pronoun their.
A: Plural players agrees with their.
B: Singular collective committee is consistently treated as a unit with its.
C: Singular Each agrees with its.
Source: Pronoun Agreement and Pronoun Case headings
Which is the final phoneme in the spoken word bridge?
A. /b/
B. /r/
C. /i/
D. /dʒ/
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: D. /dʒ/
Bridge ends with the affricate phoneme /dʒ/, represented by the letters dge. The notation is distinguished explicitly from /j/, the IPA symbol for the initial sound in yes.
A: /b/ is the initial phoneme.
B: /r/ follows the initial /b/.
C: /i/ is the vowel phoneme.
Source: Recommendation 2, pp. 14–21: sound segments and letter–sound relations
Which spelling correctly adds the suffix -ness to happy?
A. happyness
B. happieness
C. happyiness
D. happiness
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: D. happiness
For a consonant + y ending, y changes to i before -ness: happy → happiness.
A: Happyness incorrectly retains y before the suffix -ness.
B: Happieness inserts an e that is not part of the y-to-i spelling change.
C: Happyiness retains y and adds i instead of replacing y with i.
Source: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1–L.4.6, pp. 26–28: conventions, usage, vocabulary, and figurative language
Which statement correctly compares the beginning sounds in ship and slip?
A. Sh is one phoneme; sl is a blend with both sounds heard.
B. Both sh and sl represent one phoneme each.
C. Sh is a two-sound blend, while sl is silent.
D. Neither beginning has a relationship to pronunciation.
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: A. Sh is one phoneme; sl is a blend with both sounds heard.
The digraph sh spells one sound /sh/. The blend sl retains the distinguishable /s/ and /l/ phonemes.
B: Sl contains two phonemes rather than one.
C: Sh is one phoneme and neither consonant in sl is silent.
D: Both spellings represent predictable initial sounds.
Source: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1–RL.4.7, pp. 11–12: evidence, theme, elements, language, and structure
How does the suffix -less change the meaning of hope in hopeless?
A. It changes hope into a verb describing a feeling that occurred in the past.
B. It forms an adjective meaning without hope.
C. It makes hope plural.
D. It means hope again.
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: B. It forms an adjective meaning without hope.
The derivational suffix -less means without and changes the noun hope into the adjective hopeless.
A: Past tense is commonly marked by -ed, not -less.
C: Plural is commonly marked by -s or -es.
D: The prefix re-, not -less, can convey again.
Source: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1–RL.4.7, pp. 11–12: evidence, theme, elements, language, and structure
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145 questions total, split into 3 full papers of 50 each with no repeats across papers.
What topics does the Praxis Elementary Education: Reading and Language Arts (5002) test cover?
2 domains, with the heaviest weight on Writing, Speaking, and Listening (52%), and Reading (48%).
Where do CertQuestUSA's Praxis Elementary Education: Reading and Language Arts (5002) questions come from?
Primarily CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1–RL.4.7 (37%) and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1–W.4.9 (35%) of this bank's citations -- computed directly from this exam's own question sources, not a generic description.
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