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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Construct understanding from the words






2. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education






3. Social or observational learning theory






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






5. Events are formed by human perceptions of places and regions - events of past provide insights into climate - resources - ecosystems - and migration of humans - why certain events happened a certain way






6. 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.






7. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments






8. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






9. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness






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






11. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






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






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






14. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned






15. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






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






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






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






19. Role playing






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






21. Multiplication and beginning division






22. 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






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






24. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






25. Writing






26. The thought processes students are able to rely on relative to problem solving. Here - students use creativity - analysis - and logic regarding their ability to analyze facts - make comparisons - generate ideas - defend view points - draw inferences






27. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






28. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion






29. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






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






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






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






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






34. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction






35. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






36. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






37. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

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






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






40. Stages of cognitive development






41. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o






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






43. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






44. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






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






46. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines






47. 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%






48. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue






49. 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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50. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic