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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks






2. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






3. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






4. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






5. Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in unison to enhance oral reading fluency.






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






7. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






8. Drills and exercises






9. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






10. 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






11. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






12. Eight stages of human development






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






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

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15. Found that although environment causes behavior - behavior also causes environment as well. Bandura labeled this concept reciprocal determinism -'both the world the individual's behavior 'cause' affect each other. Bandura is considered a 'father' of






16. 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






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






18. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies






19. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






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






21. Quadrant of comprehensible input






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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






26. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.






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






28. Need to know o be functionsl






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






30. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues






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






32. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






33. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






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






35. Children learn through their observations of others






36. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






37. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






38. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






39. In the classroom the teacher and students take on roles similar to that of the parent and child respectively. Students must respond physically to the words of the teacher. The activity may be a simple game such as Simon Says or may involve more compl






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






41. (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






42. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech






43. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






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






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






46. Role playing






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






48. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games






49. Music






50. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






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