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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
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1. Learners must be exposed to messages a little bit beyond proficiency

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2. Mapping






3. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context






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






5. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language






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






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






8. Context embedded






9. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within






10. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






11. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence






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






13. Writing






14. Theory of moral development






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






16. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech






17. Avoid stereotypical content - specify historical periods - variety of resources - diverse information






18. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication






19. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities






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






21. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






22. Challenged in math instruction - qualified teachers - primary standards - utilize and apply number - algebra - geometry - measurement and statistics concepts - activities related to math content - meaningful to students and integrated with other subj






23. Models or visual examples of the information






24. 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






25. Multiple intelligences






26. A theory advanced by George A. Miller who stressed the idea that short - term memory could only hold 5-9 chunks of information (seven plus or minus two). The term chunk represents any meaningful unit (i.e. - digits - words - pictures - etc.). The con






27. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.






28. Connectionism






29. Art






30. Class newsletter - classroom management system - individual service projects - discuss public issues - participate in elections - school councils - create logo - motto or rules for class






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






32. 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%






33. 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






34. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






35. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






36. A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on observable behaviors and ignores psychological activities.






37. Advance organizer






38. 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






39. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






40. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






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






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






43. 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






44. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.

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45. Identify words that don't belong in a set






46. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students






47. 'with - it - ness'






48. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






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






50. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games