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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






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






3. Three levels of culture






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






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






6. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






7. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions






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






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






10. 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






11. Lower level questioning






12. Social or observational learning theory






13. Language Acquisition hypothesis






14. Zone of proximal development






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






16. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






17. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






18. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language






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






20. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






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






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






23. 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






24. 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.






25. A word that is easily recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification or pronunciation - (i.e. - Dolch 220 Sight Vocabulary List).






26. 30-60 minutes of physical activities on all days - 60 minutes of free play per day - daily activities with 10-15 minutes of moderate action






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

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28. The process of adapting a new culture;the new langage is seen as tied to the way the learners community and the target language community view one another.






29. 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






30. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






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

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






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






34. The history or study of words.






35. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension






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






37. Is the subconscious or subliminal - process by which individuals learn important things like language - prejudices - habits - social rules and behaviors. Accretion is a process where individuals are totally unaware that learning is taking place. Accr






38. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






39. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






40. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






41. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






42. Consuming resources and altering natural patterns have consequences - building structures changes the region - reasons people compete for control - relationships of nature and people - carrying capacity - intended and unintended repercussions of huma






43. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities






44. Stages of the ethic of care






45. 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






46. The use of words peculiar to a particular language with a meaning that differs from typical syntactic patterns or from the literal meaning of its parts taken together. Some examples of idiomatic expressions would include - 'John kicked the bucket' me






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






48. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






49. Drills and exercises






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