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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games






2. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






3. Mapping






4. Connectionism






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






6. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure






7. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






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






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






10. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






11. Writing






12. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






13. 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.






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






15. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context






16. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.






17. Operant conditioning






18. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency






19. Theory of moral development






20. 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






21. Influences from home - school - and community affect how well the student will learn






22. The structural (grammar) organization of English that regulates how words are combined into sentences. Word order is important in English and during the pre - school years - children learn to understand - ask questions - construct statements - and ma






23. 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).






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






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






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






27. 'if so - how?' In short - metacognition is simply the process of 'thinking about thinking.' In fact - good readers use metacognition before they read anythingin order to help them clarify their purpose for reading and to preview the text.






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






29. New vocabulary - descriptive words - realistic viewpoints of people and environment






30. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






31. Physical education






32. 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






33. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






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

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35. 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.






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






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






38. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






39. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.






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






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






42. S manifested via structuring - patterning - and constructing meaning - understanding - and ideas that did not exist initially. This process involves insight - reflection - creative expression - and/or group interactions. This method of learning is de






43. 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.






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






45. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






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






47. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information






48. 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






49. Gradually - experiment with numbers - visualize numbers - use numbers - understand number relationships






50. Stages of the ethic of care