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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.
Diphthongs
CALLA
reactive
guided inquiry
2. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context
Quadarant d
comprehension strategy
kindergarten place value
Conventional Spelling
3. Classical conditioning
five levels of learning geometry
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
Idioms
Pavlov - Ivan
4. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass
precontrol
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
standards - based assessment
body composition
5. Gradually - experiment with numbers - visualize numbers - use numbers - understand number relationships
dynamic assessment
decoding skills
how to develop number sense
CALLA
6. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence
Accretion Learning
semiphonic spelling
blend
Pre - writing
7. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer
five levels of phonological awareness
story problem steps
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
Quadarant c
8. The use of words peculiar to a particular language with a meaning that differs from typical syntactic patterns or from the literal meaning of its parts taken together. Some examples of idiomatic expressions would include - 'John kicked the bucket' me
types of number activities from 10-20
criterion - referenced test
Idioms
physical and human systems curriculum goals
9. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises
Idioms
phoneme blending
third level of physical education
muscular endurance
10. Coined by Piaget to identify a process that regulates tension between assimilation (information) and accommodation (learning). Equilibration implies that individuals learn through experiences somewhat different from previous experiences. Thus - their
primary components of learning geography
Equilibration
CALLA
Orthography
11. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words
dynamic assessment
process indicators
phoneme identity
anecdotal record
12. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application
Bruner - Jerome
Learning Theories
Kohlberg - Lawrence
explicit comprehension instructoin
13. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines
multiplication strategies
body management
Rime
strategies to help map reading
14. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.
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15. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
Assimilation
estimation instruction
Phoneme
16. Based on experiences they have and materials presented
free discovery method
inquiry
Whole Language
language skills are developed
17. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.
Idioms
Cognitive Coaching
Conventional Spelling
developmental theory
18. An attachment to the end or beginningof base or root words. A generic term that describes prefixes and suffixes word parts 'fixed to' either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the ending of words (suffixes). For example - the word disrespectfulhas
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
Affixes
skills needed to decode
fraction teaching strategies
19. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words
overall importance of the arts
alphabetic principle
citizenship activities
Etymology
20. Drills and exercises
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
Quadrant b
environment and society curriculum goals
21. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies
first grade number sense
ways to encourage citizenship
first and second grade place value
primary components of learning geography
22. Understanding that sounds are related to written words
health curriculum
phonological awareness
Quadarant c
five levels of phonological awareness
23. Hierarchy of needs
portfolios
Hidalgo - Nitza
Maslow - Abraham
discrepant event
24. Refined mastery of multiplication and division
fourth and fifth grade number sense
body management
five spelling stages
Skinner - B.F.
25. What a government is and how governments function - how rules are made and enforced - why government is necessary - democratic values and beleifs of civic life
Portfolio Assessment
standards - based assessment
political science curriculum goals
Direct Approach (teaching method)
26. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity
Erikson - Erik
fourth level of physical education
print awareness
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
27. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.
social structures activities
Conventional Spelling
Authentic Assessment
fraction teaching strategies
28. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language
poetry instruction helps
Neurolinguistics Theory (Lamendella)
oral language
Quadarant d
29. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard
reading aloud promotes
Etymology
phonetic
Semantics
30. Formal measure of tests to evaluate student ability to acquire skills
addition strategies
aptitude test
Phonics
gain print knowledge
31. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.
three concepts for physical education curriculum
Equilibration
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
constructivism
32. Proficiency of the academic Language
onset - rime phonics
skills critical to learning to read and write
morpheme
CALP
33. Students need to be given time to correct themselves. Teachers can be optimal (users monitor when to focus on form) - overusers (refer to conscious grammer all the time) - underusers(do not refer to grammer at all)
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34. Language Acquisition hypothesis
Krashen
onset and rime
expository method
Moll - Luis
35. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication
reading aloud promotes
people - places and regions curriculum goals
Access
multiplication strategies
36. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication
Schemata - a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are three types of schemata's - content - language - and textual. 1.) Content Schemata
Reflective Teaching
Bandura - Albert
social structures activities
37. Positive initial experiences - moved from concrete to symbolic very slowly
Quadarant d
ecological - based assessment
analytic phonics
fraction instruction
38. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills
Quadarant c
flexibility
health curriculum
norm - referenced test
39. Direct instruction
forecasting
story problem steps
phonics
Hunter - Madeline
40. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.
decoding skills
Behaviorism
Semantics
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
41. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions
Glasser - William
six traits approach
Input
strategies to help map reading
42. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic
components of decision making
NCTM principles
Dewey - John (1859-1952)-
Learning Theories
43. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
Guided Reading
utilization
guided inquiry
44. Read aloud to class - student oral reading periods - shared reading - sustained silent reading
phoneme identity
phonemic awareness fostered with
Kohlberg - Lawrence
literature based reading approach
45. The teacher remains mainly silent - to give students the space they need to learn to talk. In this approach - it is assumed that the students' previous experience of learning from their mother tongue will contribute to learning the new foreign langua
Direct Approach (teaching method)
Intake
skills needed to decode
The Silent Way (teaching method)
46. Determines student's ability to learn in a certain situation
Canter - Lee
Quadarant c
Hunter - Madeline
dynamic assessment
47. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.
Mastery Learning
Scaffolding
third level of physical education
core beliefs of mathematics education
48. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers
comprehension strategy
authentic assessment
inquiry promotes
transmission
49. Provide lecture - deliver demonstrations - impart explanations of science topics
oral language
Pieget - Jean
Acquisition
expository method
50. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process
literature based reading approach
Quadarant d
Strategies for teaching
Input