Praxis Core 2023-2024 : with online practice

Praxis Core 2023-2024 With online practice

Carla C. Kirkland

Book - 2022

A preparation guide for the Praxis Core Academic Skills exam for teachers that covers Praxis topics, provides strategies, and features practice tests.

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National teacher examinations > Study guides.
Teaching > United States > Examinations > Study guides.
PRAXIS Teacher Performance Assessment Test.
Pre-Professional Skills Tests > Study guides.
Teachers > Certification > United States.
Study guides.
Examinations.
Genres
Study guides
Examinations
Published
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Carla C. Kirkland (author)
Other Authors
Chan Cleveland (author)
Physical Description
xiii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781119888178
  • Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Beyond the Book
  • Where to Go from Here
  • Part 1. Getting Started with the Praxis Core
  • Chapter 1. Previewing the Praxis
  • Why Take the Praxis?
  • Breaking Down the Praxis
  • Knowing what topics the Praxis covers
  • Seeing what types of questions you can expect
  • Understanding How the Test Is Scored
  • Chapter 2. Getting Ready for Test Day
  • Registering for the Test
  • Using Your Time Wisely
  • Budgeting your study time leading up to test day
  • Budgeting your time while taking the test
  • When Test Day Has Arrived
  • Knowing what to bring and what to leave at home
  • Getting familiar with computer testing
  • If You're Retaking the Test
  • Chapter 3. Practicing the Praxis: Sampling Some Practice Questions
  • Going through the Pre-Assessment Questions
  • Reading practice questions
  • Writing practice questions
  • Mathematics practice questions
  • Looking at the Pre-Assessment Answers
  • Reading answers and explanations
  • Writing answers and explanations
  • Math answers and explanations
  • Assessing Your Results
  • Identifying categories where you struggled
  • Understanding where you went wrong specifically
  • Part 2. Mastering Math Concepts
  • Chapter 4. Count on It: Number and Quantity
  • Working with Integers: Whole Numbers and Their Opposites
  • Doing basic operations with integers
  • Finding factors of whole numbers
  • Employing some helpful divisibility rules
  • Finding multiples of integers
  • Determining the greatest common factor and least common multiple
  • Exponents and square roots
  • Computing with Fractions and Mixed Numbers
  • Simplifying fractions
  • Converting between fractions and mixed numbers
  • Performing basic operations on fractions and mixed numbers
  • Working with Decimals and Percents
  • Converting among decimals, percents, fractions, and mixed numbers
  • Determining percent change
  • Performing basic operations on decimals
  • Understanding the Number Line
  • Interpreting numeration and place values
  • Knowing the basics of order
  • Finding orders of magnitude
  • Finding numbers in sequences
  • Following Orders: The Order of Operations
  • Remembering GEMDAS
  • Using the order of operations within itself
  • Reasoning with Quantities
  • Using the two major systems of measurement
  • Converting units of measurement
  • Basic word problems
  • Working with unit rates
  • Practice Questions about Number and Quantity
  • Answers and Explanations
  • Chapter 5. Introciucing Letters: Algebra
  • Variables: When Letters Represent Numbers
  • Laying out the terms: Variable terms and expressions
  • Let's get together: Combining like terms
  • Multiplying and dividing terms and expressions
  • Combining fractions that have variables
  • When variable values are given
  • Working with Equations
  • Solving for x and other variables
  • Undoing addition and subtraction
  • Undoing multiplication and division
  • Multistep equations
  • Proportions
  • Systems of equations
  • Solving for variables in terms of other variables
  • Solving Inequalities
  • Following two more rules when solving inequalities
  • Graphing inequalities
  • Describing solution steps
  • Factoring in Algebra
  • Factoring terms out of bigger terms
  • Using reverse FOIL
  • Decoding Algebra Word Problems
  • Translating English into mathematical language
  • Algebraic word problems
  • Thinking Outside the Algebra Box
  • Recognizing relational patterns
  • Algebraic reasoning
  • Practice Questions about Algebra
  • Answers and Explanations
  • Chapter 6. Grasping Geometry Concepts
  • Understanding the Building Blocks of Geometry
  • Getting to the point
  • Defining lines and parts of lines
  • Moving along planes in space
  • Getting the right angles on angles
  • Recognizing congruence
  • Understanding Angle Measures and Relationships
  • Distinguishing degrees of angle measure and naming angles
  • Working with angle relationships
  • Knowing Common Shapes and Their Basic Properties
  • Defining polygons in general
  • Analyzing triangles: Three-sided polygons
  • Identifying facts about quadrilaterals
  • Working with other types of polygons
  • Knowing the basic facts about circles
  • Working with Shapes that Are Alike
  • Forming conclusions about congruent shapes
  • Working with similar shapes
  • Figuring out Geometric Formulas
  • Finding the perimeter
  • Circling the circumference
  • Getting into the area
  • Finding the right volume
  • Combining Shapes
  • Coming together: Shapes that have joined without an invasion
  • Preparing for invasion: When one shape invades another
  • Knowing the Ways of the XY Coordinate Plane
  • Naming coordinate pairs
  • Identifying linear equations and their graphs
  • Using the distance and midpoint formulas
  • Finding meaning in intersecting graphs
  • Transforming coordinate plane figures
  • Touching on Right Triangles
  • Knowing what Pythagoras discovered
  • Working with special right triangles
  • Practice Questions about Geometry
  • Answers and Explanations
  • Chapter 7. Statistics and Probability
  • Representing Data
  • Tables
  • Bar graphs and line graphs
  • Pie charts
  • Stem-and-leaf plots
  • Box-and-whisker plots
  • Venn diagrams
  • Scrambling around scatter plots
  • Loitering around line plots
  • Analyzing Data
  • Combing through comparisons
  • Homing in on the range
  • Measuring arithmetic mean, median, or mode
  • Looking for outliers
  • Measuring the spread of data
  • Scrutinizing samples for data analysis
  • Interpreting linear models
  • Calculating Probability
  • Determining the likelihood of an event
  • Using complements
  • Pointing Out Scientific Notation Facts
  • Practice Questions about Statistics and Probability
  • Answers and Explanations
  • Chapter 8. Test-Taking Strategies for Core Math
  • Using Helpful Shortcuts
  • Solving equations versus determining what must be solved
  • Using estimation and approximation
  • Using the calculator
  • Identifying calculations you can make in your head
  • The art of guessing as a last resort
  • Working backward
  • Narrowing Down Answer Choices
  • Eliminating obviously wrong answer choices
  • Avoiding the most common wrong answers
  • Tackling the Constructed Response
  • Tips for preparing responses and answering questions
  • Some proper ways of representing answers
  • Avoiding careless errors
  • Part 3. Refining Your Reading Comprehension Skills
  • Chapter 9. Reading Comprehension: Finding Meaning and Identifying Purpose
  • Previewing the Praxis Reading Test
  • Knowing what the test contains
  • Applying a general strategy
  • Mastering Short-Passage Questions
  • Ferreting out the main idea
  • Discerning the author's tone and intent
  • Putting vocabulary in context
  • Looking at Long-Passage Questions
  • Purpose and paraphrase
  • Arguments and support
  • Getting the hang of "If" questions
  • Sample questions for long passages
  • Visual- and Quantitative-Information Questions
  • Rethinking charts and graphs
  • Getting graphs
  • Practice Reading-Comprehension Questions
  • Answers and Explanations
  • Chapter 10. Test-Taking Strategies for Core Reading
  • Which to Read First: The Passage or the Question
  • Examining Strategies for the Various Passages
  • Approaching long and short passages
  • Approaching the paired passages
  • Approaching Questions about Charts and Graphs
  • Eliminating Wrong Answers
  • Part 4. Fine-Tuning Your Writing Skills
  • Chapter 11. Acing the Essay
  • Perusing the Types of Prompts: "Picking a Side" versus "Exploring an Idea"
  • Writing persuasively in the argumentative essay
  • Sticking to the facts in the informative essay
  • Creating a Solid Essay
  • Making an outline: Essential or overrated?
  • Dividing up your essay into sections
  • Don't box yourself in: Theses aren't set in stone
  • Citing the sources
  • Some additional writing pointers
  • Turning a Good Essay into a Great One
  • Adding interesting anecdotes
  • Painting a picture with words
  • Anticipating objections against your position
  • Understanding How the Essay Is Scored
  • Checking Out Some Practice Prompts
  • Prompts for argumentative essays
  • Prompts for informative/explanatory essays
  • Reviewing a Sample Essay
  • Evaluating Your Essay
  • Chapter 12. Giving Grammar a Glance
  • Getting a Grip on the Parts of Speech
  • Finding nouns as subjects and objects
  • Putting verbs to work
  • Using adjectives to describe people, places, and things
  • Calling on adverbs to describe actions and conditions
  • Getting the lowdown on pronouns
  • Considering conjunctions
  • Perusing prepositions
  • Making Sense of Sentence Structure
  • Independent clauses versus everything else
  • The sentence skeleton: Identifying the main subject and verb
  • Run-ons and comma splices
  • Pondering Punctuation
  • Commas
  • Semicolons
  • Apostrophes
  • Misplaced Modifiers
  • Redundancy and Double Negatives
  • Homophones: "They're in there with their bear"
  • Which one has the apostrophe?
  • Spelled and used differently, but sound the same
  • Capitalization: What You Need to Know
  • Practice Questions about Grammar
  • Answers and Explanations
  • Chapter 13. Test-Taking Strategies for Core Writing
  • Knowing the Types of Selected-Response Writing Questions
  • Type 1. Answering usage questions
  • Type 2. Showing your research skills
  • Type 3. Making sentence corrections
  • Type 4. Regarding revision-in-context questions
  • Identifying and Correcting Errors in Selected-Response Items
  • Eliminating the obviously wrong choices
  • Don't be afraid to say it's right the way it is
  • The art of guessing as a last resort
  • A word of advice about trusting your ear
  • Mastering the Essay
  • Part 5. Tackling Praxis Core Practice Tests
  • Chapter 14. Practice Exam 1
  • Answer Sheet for Practice Exam 1
  • Part 1. Reading
  • Part 2. Writing
  • Argumentative Essay
  • Source-Based Essay
  • Part 3. Mathematics
  • Chapter 15. Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations
  • Part 1. Reading
  • Part 2. Writing
  • Argumentative essay
  • Source-based essay
  • Part 3. Mathematics
  • Answer Key
  • Chapter 16. Practice Exam 2
  • Answer Sheet for Practice Exam 2
  • Part 1. Reading
  • Part 2. Writing
  • Argumentative Essay
  • Source-Based Essay
  • Part 3. Mathematics
  • Chapter 17. Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations
  • Part 1. Reading
  • Part 2. Writing
  • Argumentative Essay
  • Source-Based Essay
  • Part 3. Mathematics
  • Answer Key
  • Part 6. The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 18. Ten Common Math Errors to Avoid
  • Misusing Negative Signs
  • Confusing Perimeter and Area
  • Incorrectly Combining Like Terms
  • Messing Up When Moving Decimals
  • Not Solving for the Actual Variable
  • Misrepresenting "Less Than" in Word Problems
  • Mixing Up Supplementary and Complementary Angles
  • Finding a False Median
  • Fearing Fractions
  • Forgetting about Fractions in Formulas
  • Chapter 19. Ten Mistakes to Avoid on the Praxis Reading and Writing Exams
  • Avoiding Mistakes Common to the Writing and Reading Tests
  • Don't look for patterns in the answers
  • Don't change answers merely for the sake of changing them
  • Sidestepping Mistakes on the Writing Test
  • Don't equate different with wrong
  • Don't assume something must be correct just because it sounds fancier or more complex
  • Don't turn the essay into a thesaurus explosion
  • Don't paint yourself into a corner with a rigid thesis
  • Evading Mistakes on the Reading Test
  • Don't rule out the "too obvious"
  • Don't word-match
  • Don't ignore your outside knowledge
  • Don't try to answer more than the question asks you to
  • Index

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