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Lesson 1: About the Praxis Core Reading testOverview of the Praxis Core Reading Test
Praxis Reading: the Basics
Length: 85 minutes
Format: 56 passage-based multiple choice questions
- Key Ideas and Details
- Craft, structure and language skills
- Integration of knowledge and ideas
The Core Academic Skills for Educators Test in Reading measures academic skills in reading needed to prepare successfully for a career in education. All the skills assessed have been identified as needed for college and career readiness, in alignment with the Common Core State Standards for Reading.
In particular, there is an emphasis on skills that are critical to learning and achievement in teacher preparation programs, including:
- The ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate texts of different kinds.
What's on the test?
Passage-based multiple choice questions
Varying in difficulty and complexity, the reading material
on the test is drawn from a variety of subject areas and real-life situations.
Each passage is followed by questions that are based on its content and that relate to reading skills.
All questions can be answered by using information contained within the passage; no question requires outside knowledge of the content!
The test consists of four types of stimulus material:
- Paired passages totaling approximately 200 words followed by four to seven questions
- Long passages of approximately 200 words with four to seven questions
- Short passages of approximately 100 words with two or three questions
- Brief statements followed by a single question
Passages are drawn from both print and electronic media, including:
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Journals
- Non-fiction books
- Novels
- Online articles
- Infographics (e.g., diagrams, charts, drawings, maps, floor plans, or graphs)
Questions in each of the formats may pose tasks of varying difficulty and test any of the following skills:
- Main idea
- Supporting ideas
- Purpose of sentence or paragraph
- Author’s attitude
- Relationship of ideas
- Inferences
- Evaluation of evidence
- Meanings of words
- Recognize similar situations
- Draw conclusions
Want to join the conversation?
I am taking the test at home, what can I expect, and can I have a notepad and pencil?(3 votes)
Any 7 graders doing this? I"m doing the WHOLE enchilada for the ISATs.(2 votes)- How does this equate to the WEST-B core?(1 vote)
what grade is this for(1 vote)- What is the main idea of this story(1 vote)
- I'm having a hard time answering the questions on the reading test correctly. this is every time. I read the answer first just like I should and still come up with the wrong answer. What am I missing?(1 vote)
I had completed two reading tests on November, could I retake reading and writing tests again. I want to reset my praxis core reading and writing.(1 vote)- GO/JO is gone. How do i do it(1 vote)
- Evaluation of evidence: how to identify this types of question?
Relationships to ideas: how to identify this types of questions?(0 votes)