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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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






2. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






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






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






5. A strategy taught to help students use parts of words they have learned to attack words that are unfamiliar






6. Used for specific uses of the language. People who do not want to travel abroad - but just need to read it.






7. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive






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






9. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






10. 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






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






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






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






14. Art






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






16. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.






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






18. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.






19. Zone of proximal development






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






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






22. Amount of force a muscle can produce






23. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons






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






25. An attachment to the end or beginningof base or root words. A generic term that describes prefixes and suffixes word parts 'fixed to' either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the ending of words (suffixes). For example - the word disrespectfulhas






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






27. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.






28. 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






29. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen






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






32. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer






33. 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.






34. Steer children into the practice of becoming physically active throughout their lifetimes - improve academic achievement and ability to gain knowledge






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






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






37. 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






38. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities






39. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






40. Identify ELL's - design an effective program reflective of their needs - employ appropriate ESL or bilingual personell or both - align ELL's to state and local content standards - and to provide ongoing authentic assessment






41. Enjoys science - participates in additional science activities - inquires about science topics - curious about topic - displays verbal skills - wants more time to participate






42. Advance organizer






43. Language Acquisition hypothesis






44. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






45. Sound games - syllable clapping - rhyming songs - poems - jokes and silly rhythms - pictures in books






46. Discovery learning and constructivism






47. Read aloud to class - student oral reading periods - shared reading - sustained silent reading






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






49. Funds of knowledge






50. Body's ability to function efficiently and effectively