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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Used for specific uses of the language. People who do not want to travel abroad - but just need to read it.






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






3. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






4. Constructivist theory is a general framework for instruction based upon the study of cognition. Constructivism is based on the belief that children construct meaning from their experiences - and are not just passive receivers of information. Much of






5. New vocabulary - descriptive words - realistic viewpoints of people and environment






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






7. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole






8. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






9. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making






10. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts






11. Understand relationships of places to one another - distribution of resources throughout the world - how use of goods influence people who consume them - how decisions people make shape present and future - places change over time






12. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

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13. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






14. Study of social - political - and cultural values and their impact on scientific research and techological innovation as well as society - politics and culture as a whole






15. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments






16. The structural (grammar) organization of English that regulates how words are combined into sentences. Word order is important in English and during the pre - school years - children learn to understand - ask questions - construct statements - and ma






17. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.






18. Consuming resources and altering natural patterns have consequences - building structures changes the region - reasons people compete for control - relationships of nature and people - carrying capacity - intended and unintended repercussions of huma






19. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map






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






21. Advance organizer






22. Provide lecture - deliver demonstrations - impart explanations of science topics






23. Congnitively demanding






24. Three levels of culture






25. Theory of moral development






26. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities






27. Stages of the ethic of care






28. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph






29. Discovery learning and constructivism






30. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






31. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%






32. Context reduced






33. Connectionism






34. Art






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






36. Counting to 100






37. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh






38. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






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






40. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






41. Hierarchy of needs






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






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






44. The smallest unit of language that has meaning and may be a part of a word






45. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned






46. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






47. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






48. 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).






49. 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.






50. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation