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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations
Accretion Learning
five spelling stages
estimation instruction
kindergarten place value
2. Follow the child
observation
Mastery Learning
Canter - Lee
Montessori - Maria
3. 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.
Morphemes
alphabetic principle
poetry instruction helps
Homographs
4. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables
Digraphs
Etymology
oral language
onset and rime
5. 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
Deductive Reasoning
Gilligan - Carol
Output
Access
6. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within
problem solving teaching strategies
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
print awareness
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
7. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization
Mastery Learning
Gardner - Howard
primary components of learning geography
objectives of arts education
8. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic
Homographs
Echo Reading
Quadarant c
Learning Theories
9. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.
Acquisition
ecological theory
citizenship curriculum
sociology activities
10. A theory advanced by George A. Miller who stressed the idea that short - term memory could only hold 5-9 chunks of information (seven plus or minus two). The term chunk represents any meaningful unit (i.e. - digits - words - pictures - etc.). The con
Information Processing
comprehension
political science curriculum goals
types of number activities from 10-20
11. Proficiency of the academic Language
Homographs
CALP
instructional approaches for reading
number sense
12. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated
assessments for reading
citizenship curriculum
Cognitive Coaching
control
13. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations
citizenship activities
alternative assessment
Cooperative Learning
Whole Language
14. 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.
inquiry - based
Phonogram
Quadarant c
Access
15. Refers to the observed results of the learners efforts
sociological theory
Output
third level of physical education
strategies to help map reading
16. 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
Scaffolding
domains of learning
narrative texts include
Diphthongs
17. Role playing
Phonogram
locomotor skills
phoneme identity
Quadarant c
18. Teaching them know how to learn on their own based on their prior knowledge
things to include when completing tasks on probability and statistics
Functional - notional Approach
CALLA
phonics instruction approach
19. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity
Krashen's stages of second language acquisition
journal writing
parallel process
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
20. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials
Sight Word
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
six traits approach
Aids for ELL learners
21. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words
phoneme identity
poetry instruction helps
Cognitive Coaching
third level of physical education
22. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher
Krashen's - The Monitor
overall importance of the arts
portfolios
parallel process
23. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness
Strategies for teaching
skills critical to learning to read and write
Quadarant c
Mnemonic Device
24. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach
fraction instruction
CALLA
print awareness
Gilligan - Carol
25. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships
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
Hunter - Madeline
fraction manipulatives
body management
26. 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
muscular strength
decoding skills
Summative evaluation
science - technology - society perspective
27. 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
Lau Plan
COPEC guidelines for physical education
health curriculum
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
28. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.
Phonogram
whole language approach
Summative evaluation
narrative texts include
29. Integrates the variable for selected investigation
reading instruction should include
focus of elementary math curriculum
primary components of learning geography
question
30. A strategy where the teacher reads a line or passage with good expression - and calls on students to read it back. This is a good technique to use with Emergent Readers to help them build reading fluency.
phonetic
alternative assessment
Echo Reading
comprehension
31. 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.'
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
Rime
factors that predict reading achievement
demonstration
32. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes
environment and society curriculum goals
Semantics
Erikson - Erik
phonics and spelling
33. Hierarchy of needs
six traits approach
Maslow - Abraham
Echo Reading
overall importance of the arts
34. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard
strategies to help map reading
Rogers - Carl
things to include when completing tasks on probability and statistics
phonetic
35. Quadrant of comprehensible input
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
Cummins
key points in study of people
36. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
free discovery method
Quadarant d
Erikson - Erik
37. Refined mastery of multiplication and division
fourth and fifth grade number sense
CALLA
fourth level of physical education
ecological - based assessment
38. Convert letters into sound sequences and blend sounds to form words
primary components of learning geography
embedded phonics
synthetic phonics
three stages of map reading
39. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word
phoneme deletion
third and fourth grade place value
dynamic assessment
explicit comprehension instructoin
40. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.
Dewey - John (1859-1952)-
four levels of physical education assessment
fluency
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
41. Eight stages of human development
Erikson - Erik
phonics instruction
transformation
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
42. Writing
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
Quadarant d
ten general standard strands
fraction manipulatives
43. Connectionism
assessments for reading
Thorndike - Edward
Quadarant d
Sight Word
44. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation
sociological theory
five levels of phonological awareness
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
fraction manipulatives
45. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words
onset - rime phonics
focus of physical education
fourth level of physical education
ten general standard strands
46. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies
science - technology - society perspective
Behaviorism
skills critical to learning to read and write
first and second grade place value
47. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing
Portfolio Assessment
constructivism
Quadarant d
science - technology - society perspective
48. Reading
Quadarant d
discrepant event
Lau vs. Nichols
language skills are developed
49. Mapping
Quadarant c
reading instruction should include
addition strategies
decoding
50. 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
geography curriculum goals
inquiry
print awareness
Quadrant a