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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations






2. Follow the child






3. Word forms and another component of syntax. Morphemes are also the smallest meaningful units in language and word parts that could also change the meaning of a word.






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






5. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






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






7. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






8. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic






9. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






10. 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






11. Proficiency of the academic Language






12. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated






13. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations






14. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.






15. Refers to the observed results of the learners efforts






16. 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






17. Role playing






18. Teaching them know how to learn on their own based on their prior knowledge






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






20. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials






21. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






22. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher






23. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






24. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






25. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships






26. 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






27. 30-60 minutes of physical activities on all days - 60 minutes of free play per day - daily activities with 10-15 minutes of moderate action






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






29. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






30. 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.






31. The part of a syllable (not a word) consisting of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it - the first vowel in a word along with all of the sounds that follow - for example - /- utterfly/ in 'butterfly.'






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






33. Hierarchy of needs






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






35. Quadrant of comprehensible input






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






37. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






38. Convert letters into sound sequences and blend sounds to form words






39. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






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






41. Eight stages of human development






42. Writing






43. Connectionism






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






45. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words






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






47. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






48. Reading






49. Mapping






50. 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