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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






2. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard






3. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






4. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






5. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






6. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions






7. 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.






8. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information






9. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






10. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






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






12. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






13. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






14. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






15. Operant Conditioning






16. Language student's will emerge naturally whey they are given the opprotunity and need (motivation) to speak in a non - coercive/low anxiety situations.

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17. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations






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






19. Hierarchy of needs






20. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






21. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.






22. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






23. A word that is easily recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification or pronunciation - (i.e. - Dolch 220 Sight Vocabulary List).






24. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






25. A strategy where the teacher reads a line or passage with good expression - and calls on students to read it back. This is a good technique to use with Emergent Readers to help them build reading fluency.






26. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






27. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion






28. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






29. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






30. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






31. Found that although environment causes behavior - behavior also causes environment as well. Bandura labeled this concept reciprocal determinism -'both the world the individual's behavior 'cause' affect each other. Bandura is considered a 'father' of






32. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words






33. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






34. Physical education






35. The division of words into syllables [the minimal units of sequential speech sounds comprised of a vowel sound or a vowel - consonant combination - as /a/ - /ba/ - /ab/ - /bab/ - etc.]






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






37. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






38. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






39. Multiple intelligences






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






41. Amount of force a muscle can produce






42. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






43. Begin working with decimals






44. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






45. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.






46. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






47. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






48. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






49. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






50. Multiplication and beginning division







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