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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

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






2. Congitively undemanding






3. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness






4. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






5. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






6. Recogize separate sounds in words






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






8. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






9. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






10. 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.






11. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.






12. Operant Conditioning






13. Writing






14. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard






15. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development






16. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






17. Body's ability to function efficiently and effectively






18. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.






19. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






20. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






21. 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






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






23. Need to know o be functionsl






24. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol






25. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols






26. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.






27. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art






28. New vocabulary - descriptive words - realistic viewpoints of people and environment






29. 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






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships






37. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

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38. The process of adapting a new culture;the new langage is seen as tied to the way the learners community and the target language community view one another.






39. A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on observable behaviors and ignores psychological activities.






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






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






42. 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






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






44. Eight stages of human development






45. Funds of knowledge






46. (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






47. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






48. Counting to 100






49. Enjoys science - participates in additional science activities - inquires about science topics - curious about topic - displays verbal skills - wants more time to participate






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







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