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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Identify words that don't belong in a set
phoneme categorization
Lau vs. Nichols
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
norm - referenced test
2. 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
phoneme substitution
fourth and fifth grade number sense
political science curriculum goals
fraction manipulatives
3. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.
phoneme identity
Formative Evaluation
Guided Writing
phonetic
4. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.
Phonics
Guided Reading
second level of physical education
Intake
5. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.
phonics instruction
Montessori - Maria
Phonics
Mnemonic Device
6. Assertive discipline
Krashen
components of decision making
Canter - Lee
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
7. Avoid stereotypical content - specify historical periods - variety of resources - diverse information
three categories of arts standards
second grade number sense
key points in study of people
political science curriculum goals
8. Hierarchy of needs
three concepts for physical education curriculum
Maslow - Abraham
Skinner - B.F.
estimation instruction
9. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization
core beliefs of mathematics education
primary components of learning geography
word recognition
Whole Language
10. Three levels of culture
Hidalgo - Nitza
locomotor skills
Pavlov - Ivan
CALLA
11. Experiential Learning
three concepts for physical education curriculum
Rogers - Carl
reading aloud promotes
three categories of arts standards
12. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.
Quadarant c
Cooperative Learning
Acquisition
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
13. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process
transitional
comprehension strategy
Alphabetic Principle
laboratory - experimentation
14. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies
first and second grade place value
Pieget - Jean
ecological theory
activities to gain language knowledge
15. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic
Lau vs. Nichols
economics curriculum goals
Learning Theories
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
16. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication
Lau Plan
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
social structures activities
Constructivism
17. 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
third level of physical education
economics skills
physical and human systems curriculum goals
intrinsic phonics
18. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.
literature based reading approach
fourth and fifth grade number sense
Summative evaluation
Quadrant a
19. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph
demonstration
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
Guided Writing
people - places and regions curriculum goals
20. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
basic concepts in physical education
five levels of phonological awareness
Quadarant c
21. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.
Rime
indicators of attitude about science
fraction teaching strategies
Portfolio Assessment
22. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within
phoneme blending
third level of physical education
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
Lau Plan
23. 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
demonstration
phonics instruction approach
reactive
24. Positive initial experiences - moved from concrete to symbolic very slowly
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
sociological theory
fraction instruction
skills needed to read
25. Operant Conditioning
Skinner - B.F.
achievement test
body management
standards - based assessment
26. Classical conditioning
Pavlov - Ivan
Rime
phoneme blending
Deductive Reasoning
27. Writing
Guided Reading
Vygotsky - Lev
discrepant event
Quadarant d
28. Movement or equipment moves the child instead of child being in control
precontrol
Gardner - Howard
body composition
constructivism
29. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication
Scaffolding
Access
five levels of phonological awareness
demonstration
30. Art
comprehension strategy
narrative texts include
Whole Language
Quadrant a
31. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion
ways to encourage citizenship
Quadarant d
literature analysis needs
flexibility
32. '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.
body composition
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
unifying processes of science
Sight Word
33. Language Acquisition hypothesis
Krashen
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
Whole Language
blend
34. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals
curriculum for reading include
Pre - writing
standards - based assessment
physical fitness
35. Music
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
Syllabication
analogy - based phonics
Quadrant a
36. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development
kindergarten place value
indicators of attitude about science
psychology activities
fraction teaching strategies
37. Complete a problem or project with an explanation for an answer
Acquisition
Homographs
performance tasks
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
38. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .
laboratory - experimentation
Quadarant d
Rime
Homographs
39. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing
constructivism
phonics instruction
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
onset and rime
40. Face to face conversation
cardiovascular efficiency
linguistic awareness
Quadrant a
narrative texts include
41. 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
literature based reading approach
economics curriculum goals
Krashen's Natural Approach
42. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
problem solving teaching strategies
flexibility
synthetic phonics
43. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education
phoneme addition
geography areas of knowledge
economics activities
locomotor skills
44. Multiple intelligences
Affixes
Deductive Reasoning
Gardner - Howard
social structures activities
45. Quadrant of comprehensible input
key points in study of people
Cummins
phoneme blending
second grade number sense
46. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o
question
Alphabetic Principle
Phoneme
print awareness
47. The initial creative stage of writing - prior to drafting - in which the writer formulates ideas - gathers information - organizes or plans.
guided inquiry
Pre - writing
addition strategies
CALP
48. Advance organizer
Quadarant a and c
phonological awareness
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
Ausubel - David
49. A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on observable behaviors and ignores psychological activities.
domains of learning
Quadrant a
phoneme categorization
Behaviorism
50. Discrepant event - question - inquiry
Kounin - Jacob
Formative Evaluation
instructional cycle for science instruction
skills needed to decode