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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication
Access
Quadrant a
citizenship activities
print awareness
2. Identify words that don't belong in a set
phoneme categorization
precontrol
body composition
print awareness
3. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher.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
observation
citizenship curriculum
literature based reading approach
Round - robin Reading
4. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought
curriculum for reading include
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
proficiency
curriculum plan for political science
5. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines
comprehension skills lead to
Hidalgo - Nitza
Cummins
three types of essential lessons for social studies
6. Multiplication and beginning division
factors that predict reading achievement
third grade number sense
Cummins
Bruner - Jerome
7. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities
three stages of map reading
second level of physical education
Lau Plan
decoding skills
8. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
whole language approach
fourth level of physical education
first level of physical education
9. 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
story problem steps
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
problem solving teaching strategies
assessment of locomotor skills
10. Avoid stereotypical content - specify historical periods - variety of resources - diverse information
key points in study of people
social discipline
Lau vs. Nichols
Krashen
11. Proficiency of the academic Language
CALP
second grade number sense
Canter - Lee
citizenship curriculum
12. Language Acquisition hypothesis
enrichment strategies
alphabetic principle
Krashen
Emergent Reader
13. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies
semiphonic spelling
first and second grade place value
Krashen's Natural Approach
Hunter - Madeline
14. 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
Summative evaluation
COPEC guidelines for physical education
process indicators
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
15. New vocabulary - descriptive words - realistic viewpoints of people and environment
narrative texts include
CALLA
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
Onomatopoeia
16. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance
anecdotal record
phonics instruction approach
decoding skills
Experiential Learning
17. In the classroom the teacher and students take on roles similar to that of the parent and child respectively. Students must respond physically to the words of the teacher. The activity may be a simple game such as Simon Says or may involve more compl
phonics and spelling
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
Idioms
Operant Conditioning -
18. Multiple intelligences
economics skills
sociology activities
Behaviorism
Gardner - Howard
19. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass
phoneme substitution
NCTM principles
body composition
explicit comprehension instructoin
20. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment
Hidalgo - Nitza
Authentic Assessment
ecological - based assessment
semiphonic spelling
21. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development
linguistic awareness
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
psychology activities
Krashen
22. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words
Cognitive Coaching
activities to gain language knowledge
approach spelling with
reading instruction should include
23. Begin working with decimals
citizenship curriculum
economics activities
Quadarant d
fifth grade place value
24. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes
phonics
Glasser - William
Bandura - Albert
third and fourth grade place value
25. Recogize separate sounds in words
Reading Approach (teaching method)
discrepant event
Affixes
phoneme isolation
26. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests
Constructivism
Reflective Teaching
second grade number sense
comprehension skills lead to
27. Construct understanding from the words
direct daily measurement
demonstration
comprehension
phonological awareness
28. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context
three categories of arts standards
Morphemes
Mastery Learning
key points in study of people
29. Stages of cognitive development
multiplication strategies
Equilibration
Pieget - Jean
inquiry - based
30. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process
fourth level of physical education
Gilligan - Carol
Input
phonemic awareness fostered with
31. Counting to 100
guided inquiry
poetry instruction helps
Homographs
kindergarten place value
32. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions
five spelling stages
Pre - writing
people - places and regions curriculum goals
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
33. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context
Quadarant c
reading aloud promotes
word recognition
comprehension strategy
34. Three levels of culture
criterion - referenced test
Hidalgo - Nitza
types of number relationships for 1-10
factors that predict reading achievement
35. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions
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
criterion - referenced test
fraction manipulatives
phonemic awareness fostered with
36. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen
geography areas of knowledge
models
embedded phonics
whole language approach
37. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives
NCTM principles
fraction teaching strategies
muscular endurance
Quadrant a
38. Role playing
analytic phonics
unifying processes of science
Quadarant c
direct daily measurement
39. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery
forecasting
Quadrant a and b
physical fitness
Mnemonic Device
40. Used for specific uses of the language. People who do not want to travel abroad - but just need to read it.
citizenship activities
Reading Approach (teaching method)
enrichment strategies
skills needed to decode
41. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization
Orthography
primary components of learning geography
decoding
literature analysis needs
42. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
Quadrant a
alternative assessment
Skinner - B.F.
43. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech
Assimilation
focus of elementary math curriculum
decoding skills
geography curriculum goals
44. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria
authentic assessment
instructional approaches for reading
discrepant event
developmental theory
45. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language
Equilibration
phoneme identity
poetry instruction helps
social discipline
46. Reading
alphabetic principle
Quadarant d
first and second grade place value
anthropology activities
47. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography
alphabetic principle
geography areas of knowledge
cardiovascular efficiency
number sense
48. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers
first grade number sense
types of number relationships for 1-10
muscular endurance
Mnemonic Device
49. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials
Critical Thinking
Aids for ELL learners
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
50. 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
physical and human systems curriculum goals
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
Experiential Learning
language skills are developed