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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






2. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .






3. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions






4. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






5. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable






6. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum






7. The reader at the beginning stages of learning to read and developing an association of print with meaning. During this stage of reading development - children engage in reading play and retelling familiar stories from memory and using pictures to ma






8. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






9. Context reduced






10. Multiplication and beginning division






11. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






12. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies






13. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

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14. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables






15. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive






16. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






17. Body's capacity to maintain vigorous physical activity for a period of time






18. Ability to understand sound structure of language






19. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






20. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art






21. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






22. Determines student's ability to learn in a certain situation






23. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






24. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






25. Systems - order and organization - evidence - models and explanation - change - constancy and measurement - evolution - equilibrium and cycles - form - function and structure






26. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






27. Stages of the ethic of care






28. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition






29. Region/area - length - set






30. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines






31. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies






32. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks






33. Drills and exercises






34. 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






35. Follow the child






36. Suggests that behavior is somewhat controlled by association and illustrated after a neutral stimulus accepts the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through the pairing of some unconditioned stimulus with the neutral stimulus.






37. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






38. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






39. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises






40. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






41. Movement or equipment moves the child instead of child being in control






42. Quadrant of comprehensible input






43. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts






44. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






45. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






46. Equity - curriculum - teaching - learning - assessment - technology






47. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






48. Begin working with decimals






49. Advance organizer






50. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge