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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Advance organizer






2. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






3. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






4. Students analyze letter sound relationships from learned words to those not familiar while not pronouncing sounds in isolation






5. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






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






7. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






8. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling






9. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






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






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






12. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






13. Stages of cognitive development






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






15. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






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

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17. '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.






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






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






20. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






21. Class newsletter - classroom management system - individual service projects - discuss public issues - participate in elections - school councils - create logo - motto or rules for class






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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.






31. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen






32. 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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






37. Learning is formal knowledge(rules) - acquistion - at the subconsious level (child's acquiring his first language).

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38. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks






39. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic






40. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






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






42. 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.






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






44. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






45. 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






46. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






47. Operant conditioning






48. 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).






49. 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






50. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.