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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Used prior to occurence of inappropriate behavior - use positive interaction - elimiate differential treatment - and prompting






3. Reading






4. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






5. Operant Conditioning






6. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output






7. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments






8. 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.'






9. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






10. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






11. The reader at the beginning stages of learning to read and developing an association of print with meaning. During this stage of reading development - children engage in reading play and retelling familiar stories from memory and using pictures to ma






12. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments






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






14. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction






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






16. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






17. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within






18. How long can a muscle produce force






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






20. Role playing






21. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






22. 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%






23. 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






24. Determines student's ability to learn in a certain situation






25. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






26. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






27. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency






28. Drills and exercises






29. Construct understanding from the words






30. 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






31. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge






32. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






33. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh






34. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






35. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






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






37. Choice/control theory






38. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts






39. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum






40. 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.






41. Zone of proximal development






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






43. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass






44. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






45. Learning of governmetn function and following the rulse as set forth. legalistic and assimilationist






46. Proficiency of the academic Language






47. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.






48. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words






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






50. Gradually - experiment with numbers - visualize numbers - use numbers - understand number relationships