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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Congitively undemanding






2. Writing






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






4. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance






5. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






6. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






7. 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






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






9. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






10. Direct instruction






11. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable






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






13. 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






14. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol






15. The study of the nature and use of symbols in a writing system; correct or standardized spelling according to established usage in a given language.






16. Motivation is the primary determinant of L2 proficiency;The more motivated you are the better you will perform






17. 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%






18. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






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






20. The division of words into syllables [the minimal units of sequential speech sounds comprised of a vowel sound or a vowel - consonant combination - as /a/ - /ba/ - /ab/ - /bab/ - etc.]






21. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






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






23. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






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






25. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words






26. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts






27. 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






28. 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






29. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






30. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






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






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






33. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






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






35. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






36. Face to face conversation






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






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






40. You give a list of vocabulary words in L2. Classes are taught in L1.






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






42. 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.






43. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






44. Physical education






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






46. 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.






47. Multiplication and beginning division






48. Choice/control theory






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






50. Operant conditioning