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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






2. 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






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






4. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.






5. (1849-1936) discovered 'conditioning' and initially believed that all behavior was reflexive. Pavlov thought that all learning - whether the elicited responses in animals - or of highly conceptual behaviors in humans was due to the mechanisms of clas






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






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






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






9. Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness - phonics instruction in context - learn when address reading and writing activities






10. Children develop motor skills at different rates - child's ates doesn't predict motor ability but obtained through use and practice - children develop motor skills through play






11. Connectionism






12. 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






13. Subtraction as think - addition - subtraction facts with sums to 10 - sums greater than 10






14. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






15. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






16. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.






17. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






18. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development






19. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols






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






21. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.






22. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery






23. 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






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






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






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






27. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






28. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






29. Counting to 100






30. 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.






31. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






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






33. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.






34. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






35. Mapping






36. Hierarchy of needs






37. 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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38. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






39. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






40. Influences from home - school - and community affect how well the student will learn






41. The initial creative stage of writing - prior to drafting - in which the writer formulates ideas - gathers information - organizes or plans.






42. Learners must be exposed to messages a little bit beyond proficiency

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






44. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria






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






46. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin






47. Operant conditioning






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






49. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process






50. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure