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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard






2. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






3. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction






4. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






5. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






6. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






7. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication






8. 'with - it - ness'






9. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.






10. Writing






11. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities






12. The teacher remains mainly silent - to give students the space they need to learn to talk. In this approach - it is assumed that the students' previous experience of learning from their mother tongue will contribute to learning the new foreign langua






13. Identify words that don't belong in a set






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






15. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






16. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






17. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words






18. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.






19. Spatial awareness - effort - and peer relationships developed through movement concepts and skill themes






20. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






21. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






22. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






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






24. The part of a syllable (not a word) consisting of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it - the first vowel in a word along with all of the sounds that follow - for example - /- utterfly/ in 'butterfly.'






25. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






26. Enjoys science - participates in additional science activities - inquires about science topics - curious about topic - displays verbal skills - wants more time to participate






27. 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






28. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines






29. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






30. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.






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






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






33. Zone of proximal development






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






35. You give a list of vocabulary words in L2. Classes are taught in L1.






36. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






37. Multiple intelligences






38. Development of spoken language system






39. Direct instruction






40. Congnitively demanding






41. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






42. Models or visual examples of the information






43. Operant conditioning






44. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






45. The joining of two or more consonant sounds - represented by letters that begins a word without losing the identity of the sounds - such as /bl/ in black - the joining of the first consonant and vowel sounds in a word - such as /b/ and /a/ in baby. T






46. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria






47. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






48. The use of words peculiar to a particular language with a meaning that differs from typical syntactic patterns or from the literal meaning of its parts taken together. Some examples of idiomatic expressions would include - 'John kicked the bucket' me






49. An attachment to the end or beginningof base or root words. A generic term that describes prefixes and suffixes word parts 'fixed to' either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the ending of words (suffixes). For example - the word disrespectfulhas






50. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts