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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Subtraction as think - addition - subtraction facts with sums to 10 - sums greater than 10
assessments for reading
unifying processes of science
forecasting
subtraction strategies
2. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned
domains of learning
instructional cycle for science instruction
Pieget - Jean
achievement test
3. Identify ELL's - design an effective program reflective of their needs - employ appropriate ESL or bilingual personell or both - align ELL's to state and local content standards - and to provide ongoing authentic assessment
Lau Plan
portfolios
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
control
4. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information
Functional - notional Approach
guided inquiry
embedded phonics
Skinner - B.F.
5. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization
Dewey - John
blend
Phonics
primary components of learning geography
6. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers
inquiry promotes
Hunter - Madeline
three categories of arts standards
Montessori - Maria
7. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery
forecasting
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
constructivism
strategies to help map reading
8. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback
objectives of arts education
Strategies for teaching
anthropology activities
Gardner - Howard
9. Hierarchy of needs
Quadrant a and b
Quadarant c
Maslow - Abraham
Krashen's Acquisition vs. Learning
10. 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.
Phonogram
demonstration
fraction manipulatives
constructivism
11. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language
parallel process
Variable Competence Model (widdowson and ellis)
phoneme segmentation
phoneme identity
12. Understanding that sounds are related to written words
Quadarant c
onset and rime
phonological awareness
Mnemonic Device
13. Students need to be given time to correct themselves. Teachers can be optimal (users monitor when to focus on form) - overusers (refer to conscious grammer all the time) - underusers(do not refer to grammer at all)
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14. Physical education
Guided Reading
Quadrant a
comprehension strategy
second level of physical education
15. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context
blend
Conventional Spelling
comprehension strategy
Portfolio Assessment
16. Constructivist theory is a general framework for instruction based upon the study of cognition. Constructivism is based on the belief that children construct meaning from their experiences - and are not just passive receivers of information. Much of
proficiency
Constructivism
Portfolio Assessment
Acquisition
17. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records
assessments for reading
word recognition
NCTM principles
Assimilation
18. 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
comprehension
Learning Theories
core beliefs of mathematics education
transitional
19. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions
Assimilation
economics curriculum goals
criterion - referenced test
third grade number sense
20. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing
constructivism
Ausubel - David
four aspects of maps
locomotor skill progression
21. Consuming resources and altering natural patterns have consequences - building structures changes the region - reasons people compete for control - relationships of nature and people - carrying capacity - intended and unintended repercussions of huma
environment and society curriculum goals
Dewey - John
Cognitive Coaching
COPEC guidelines for physical education
22. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies
first and second grade place value
core beliefs of mathematics education
basic concepts in physical education
comprehension
23. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education
COPEC guidelines for physical education
economics activities
Whole Language
locomotor skill progression
24. Assertive discipline
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
problem solving teaching strategies
Canter - Lee
Behaviorism
25. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills
Sight Word
health curriculum
components of decision making
Equilibration
26. 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.
fourth and fifth grade number sense
third grade number sense
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
aptitude test
27. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency
problem solving teaching strategies
inquiry promotes
four levels of physical education assessment
Quadarant c and d
28. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
Digraphs
fourth and fifth grade number sense
Conventional Spelling
29. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency
phoneme categorization
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
five results of print awareness
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
30. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations
question
Ausubel - David
ecological - based assessment
alternative assessment
31. 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
Emergent Reader
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
focus of physical education
fraction teaching strategies
32. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass
comprehension
Output
body composition
linguistic awareness
33. S manifested via structuring - patterning - and constructing meaning - understanding - and ideas that did not exist initially. This process involves insight - reflection - creative expression - and/or group interactions. This method of learning is de
Rogers - Carl
Emergence Learning
body management
activities to gain language knowledge
34. 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
Idioms
Initial Blends
criterion - referenced test
Phonics
35. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling
alternative assessment
anthropology activities
narrative texts include
proficiency
36. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.
Rime
NCTM principles
synthetic phonics
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
37. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words
embedded phonics
economics activities
geography curriculum goals
fourth level of physical education
38. Refers to the observed results of the learners efforts
Access
criterion - referenced test
Krashen's Acquisition vs. Learning
Output
39. 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
models
synthetic phonics
Affixes
physical and human systems curriculum goals
40. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games
analogy - based phonics
literature analysis needs
Conventional Spelling
gain print knowledge
41. 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
sociological theory
Information Processing
word recognition
phonetic
42. Congnitively demanding
Initial Blends
Quadarant c and d
word recognition
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
43. Begin working with decimals
focus of elementary math curriculum
fifth grade place value
subtraction strategies
onset and rime
44. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .
concepts and skills for social studies
Accretion Learning
Homographs
Quadarant d
45. A word that is easily recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification or pronunciation - (i.e. - Dolch 220 Sight Vocabulary List).
addition strategies
Sight Word
body management
oral language
46. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping
Quadrant a
Whole Language
Erikson - Erik
locomotor skill progression
47. Lower level questioning
Cummins
fraction manipulatives
number sense
Quadarant c
48. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context
Glasser - William
phoneme categorization
Quadrant a
three categories of arts standards
49. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment
ecological - based assessment
social structures activities
linguistic awareness
Alphabetic Principle
50. Context embedded
Ausubel - David
Quadarant a and c
Pre - writing
Quadarant c and d