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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness






2. The smallest unit of language that has meaning and may be a part of a word






3. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence






4. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






5. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






6. 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






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






8. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.






9. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






10. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






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






12. Art






13. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing






14. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






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






16. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






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






18. 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






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






20. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen






21. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






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






23. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises






24. Eight stages of human development






25. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






26. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






27. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






28. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






29. A strategy taught to help students use parts of words they have learned to attack words that are unfamiliar






30. Learning through experience






31. The history or study of words.






32. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion






33. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process






34. Challenged in math instruction - qualified teachers - primary standards - utilize and apply number - algebra - geometry - measurement and statistics concepts - activities related to math content - meaningful to students and integrated with other subj






35. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






36. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






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






38. Stages of the ethic of care






39. Choice/control theory






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






41. (1849-1936) discovered 'conditioning' and initially believed that all behavior was reflexive. Pavlov thought that all learning - whether the elicited responses in animals - or of highly conceptual behaviors in humans was due to the mechanisms of clas






42. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.






43. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






44. Recogize separate sounds in words






45. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






46. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension






47. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






48. 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






49. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






50. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence







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