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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought
instructional cycle for science instruction
Sight Word
proficiency
Kounin - Jacob
2. Lower level questioning
Quadarant c
Choral Reading
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
narrative texts include
3. Refined mastery of multiplication and division
Rime
fourth and fifth grade number sense
anecdotal record
norm - referenced test
4. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel
geography curriculum goals
economics curriculum goals
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
fourth level of physical education
5. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables
ecological - based assessment
onset and rime
Mastery Learning
Syllabication
6. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education
story problem steps
Ausubel - David
Summative evaluation
economics activities
7. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students
Quadrant a and b
blend
discrepant event
explicit comprehension instructoin
8. Spatial awareness - effort - and peer relationships developed through movement concepts and skill themes
focus of physical education
Diphthongs
achievement test
people - places and regions curriculum goals
9. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.
diagnostic assessment
free discovery method
reactive
Mastery Learning
10. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling
citizenship curriculum
types of number activities from 10-20
reading instruction should include
Access
11. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence
precommunicative spelling
Montessori - Maria
phoneme identity
Learning Theories
12. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
Acquisition
Information Processing
Lau Plan
13. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou
Glasser - William
COPEC guidelines for physical education
focus of physical education
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
14. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles
transformation
phonemic awareness fostered with
skills critical to learning to read and write
types of number activities from 10-20
15. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness
Rime
fraction teaching strategies
factors that predict reading achievement
domains of learning
16. Drills and exercises
Quadrant b
question
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
Behaviorism
17. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication
locomotor skill progression
sociology activities
blend
Quadarant b and d
18. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing
journal writing
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
anthropology activities
Krashen's Acquisition vs. Learning
19. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard
basic concepts in physical education
phonetic
unifying processes of science
Quadrant a
20. 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
objectives of arts education
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
sociology activities
Deductive Reasoning
21. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map
phonemic awareness fostered with
word recognition
Krashen's Acquisition vs. Learning
strategies to help map reading
22. 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.
Lau vs. Nichols
Morphemes
health curriculum
Phonogram
23. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated
control
Pavlov - Ivan
strategies to help map reading
alternative assessment
24. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words
alphabetic principle
analogy - based phonics
ways to encourage citizenship
observation
25. Used prior to occurence of inappropriate behavior - use positive interaction - elimiate differential treatment - and prompting
analytic phonics
core beliefs of mathematics education
developmental theory
proactive
26. What a government is and how governments function - how rules are made and enforced - why government is necessary - democratic values and beleifs of civic life
economics curriculum goals
political science curriculum goals
primary components of learning geography
guided inquiry
27. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions
six traits approach
process indicators
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
fifth grade place value
28. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension
reading instruction should include
Quadrant b
citizenship curriculum
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
29. Need to know o be functionsl
Functional - notional Approach
Homographs
Mnemonic Device
problem solving teaching strategies
30. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word
phoneme deletion
fourth and fifth grade number sense
phoneme identity
Quadrant a
31. Multiple intelligences
second grade number sense
reading instruction should include
Gardner - Howard
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
32. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback
Strategies for teaching
fourth and fifth grade number sense
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
laboratory - experimentation
33. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities
inquiry
phonics
focus of elementary math curriculum
Bandura - Albert
34. Art
expository method
phonics instruction
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
Quadrant a
35. 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
Portfolio Assessment
Strategies for teaching
focus of physical education
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
36. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment
Erikson - Erik
Dewey - John (1859-1952)-
guided inquiry
ecological - based assessment
37. Systems - order and organization - evidence - models and explanation - change - constancy and measurement - evolution - equilibrium and cycles - form - function and structure
instructional approaches for reading
unifying processes of science
locomotor skill progression
overall importance of the arts
38. 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
COPEC guidelines for physical education
Initial Blends
Quadarant a and c
Pavlov - Ivan P.
39. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events
precommunicative spelling
Behaviorism
citizenship activities
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
40. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.
control
Rogers - Carl
Semantics
Reflective Teaching
41. Models or visual examples of the information
phonological awareness
demonstration
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
Quadarant c
42. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin
alternative assessment
Round - robin Reading
reading aloud promotes
Quadrant a
43. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations
word recognition
phonological awareness
estimation instruction
achievement test
44. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.
Quadarant c
Gardner - Howard
Hidalgo - Nitza
Cognitive Coaching
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
Etymology
ten general standard strands
aptitude test
science - technology - society perspective
46. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization
Quadrant a
primary components of learning geography
types of number activities from 10-20
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
47. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers
estimation instruction
inquiry promotes
people - places and regions curriculum goals
domains of learning
48. Determines student's ability to learn in a certain situation
overall importance of the arts
Choral Reading
dynamic assessment
direct daily measurement
49. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity
parallel process
economics curriculum goals
key points in study of people
Diphthongs
50. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading
ten general standard strands
Vygotsky - Lev
intrinsic phonics
fifth grade place value