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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Ability to understand sound structure of language
linguistic awareness
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
process indicators
domains of learning
2. Learning through experience
social structures activities
Dewey - John
decoding
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
3. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography
geography areas of knowledge
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
body management
factors that predict reading achievement
4. Stages of cognitive development
purpose of physical education
Lau Plan
portfolios
Pieget - Jean
5. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech
activities to gain language knowledge
decoding skills
anthropology activities
dynamic assessment
6. Social or observational learning theory
strategies to help map reading
comprehension
Bandura - Albert
constructivism
7. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
phoneme substitution
Pavlov - Ivan P.
discrepant event
8. 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%
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
Acquisition
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
six traits approach
9. Construct understanding from the words
comprehension
Phonics
Phonogram
Critical Thinking
10. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments
curriculum plan for political science
citizenship curriculum
phoneme categorization
people - places and regions curriculum goals
11. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
process indicators
Krashen's Natural Approach
achievement test
12. Reading
Quadarant d
analytic phonics
Operant Conditioning -
skills needed to decode
13. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ
Variable Competence Model (widdowson and ellis)
transformation
phonics instruction approach
Operant Conditioning -
14. Direct instruction
inquiry
guided inquiry
social discipline
Hunter - Madeline
15. Knowing the basic concepts about written words
Strategies for teaching
print awareness
Thorndike - Edward
Ausubel - David
16. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle
skills needed to decode
first grade number sense
forecasting
semiphonic spelling
17. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them
first level of physical education
phoneme segmentation
fifth grade place value
alternative assessment
18. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic
comprehension skills lead to
Rogers - Carl
inquiry
Learning Theories
19. Art
Pavlov - Ivan
strategies to help map reading
Quadrant a
Gardner - Howard
20. 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
transformation
Emergence Learning
Skinner - B.F.
guided inquiry
21. 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.
Krashen's Acquisition vs. Learning
Guided Reading
Cooperative Learning
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
22. Identify ELL's - design an effective program reflective of their needs - employ appropriate ESL or bilingual personell or both - align ELL's to state and local content standards - and to provide ongoing authentic assessment
three concepts for physical education curriculum
assessment of locomotor skills
Lau Plan
Critical Thinking
23. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.
five levels of learning geometry
objectives of arts education
economics activities
Cooperative Learning
24. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests
second grade number sense
Quadrant a
components of decision making
oral language
25. Learning is formal knowledge(rules) - acquistion - at the subconsious level (child's acquiring his first language).
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26. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard
Phoneme
ecological - based assessment
transitional
phonetic
27. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication
Quadrant a and b
sociology activities
Quadrant a
Quadrant a
28. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.
Whole Language
first grade number sense
demonstration
Alphabetic Principle
29. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words
inquiry - based
skills needed to decode
phoneme identity
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
30. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.
Mastery Learning
Cognitive Coaching
Scaffolding
reading aloud promotes
31. Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness - phonics instruction in context - learn when address reading and writing activities
poetry instruction helps
phonics instruction approach
flexibility
phonological awareness
32. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic
Dewey - John
precommunicative spelling
curriculum plan for political science
fluency
33. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments
problem solving teaching strategies
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
Schemata - a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are three types of schemata's - content - language - and textual. 1.) Content Schemata
whole language approach
34. Coined by Piaget to identify a process that regulates tension between assimilation (information) and accommodation (learning). Equilibration implies that individuals learn through experiences somewhat different from previous experiences. Thus - their
Equilibration
skills critical to learning to read and write
embedded phonics
Quadarant b and d
35. Begin working with decimals
citizenship curriculum
Guided Reading
fifth grade place value
phonics
36. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor
five levels of learning geometry
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
Montessori - Maria
Constructivism
37. '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.
Guided Writing
Metacognition involves several important elements including - designing - monitoring - and assessing a specific plan of action. Steps students should take to enhance metacognition: (1) identify how much they know about a specific topic to consider fo
fraction teaching strategies
second level of physical education
38. 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
Output
inquiry promotes
Accretion Learning
Acquisition
39. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer
story problem steps
Quadrant a
Krashen's Acquisition vs. Learning
Assimilation
40. Read aloud to class - student oral reading periods - shared reading - sustained silent reading
cardiovascular efficiency
literature based reading approach
authentic assessment
Syntactic System
41. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization
primary components of learning geography
five spelling stages
Kounin - Jacob
Pre - writing
42. 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.
health curriculum
things to include when completing tasks on probability and statistics
Orthography
Lau vs. Nichols
43. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive
onset and rime
domains of learning
Diphthongs
second level of physical education
44. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity
alternative assessment
fourth level of physical education
Acquisition
overall importance of the arts
45. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.
Quadrant b
Digraphs
Acquisition
Phonogram
46. The history or study of words.
first level of physical education
Etymology
Experiential Learning
addition strategies
47. 'with - it - ness'
phonemic awareness fostered with
Homographs
Kounin - Jacob
inquiry
48. The initial creative stage of writing - prior to drafting - in which the writer formulates ideas - gathers information - organizes or plans.
social discipline
Cooperative Learning
Pre - writing
body management
49. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills
Quadrant a
Learning Theories
health curriculum
question
50. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment
focus of elementary math curriculum
fifth grade place value
ecological - based assessment
Affixes