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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






2. 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






3. The structural (grammar) organization of English that regulates how words are combined into sentences. Word order is important in English and during the pre - school years - children learn to understand - ask questions - construct statements - and ma






4. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge






5. Amount of force a muscle can produce






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






7. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






8. Choice/control theory






9. Eight stages of human development






10. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






11. Zone of proximal development






12. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations






13. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






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






15. Operant Conditioning






16. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






17. 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






18. Provide lecture - deliver demonstrations - impart explanations of science topics






19. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






20. Multiplication and beginning division






21. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive






22. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games






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






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






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






26. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.






27. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer






28. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






33. Physical education






34. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure






35. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities






36. 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.






37. Construct understanding from the words






38. Face to face conversation






39. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






40. 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






41. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables






42. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph






43. Teaching them know how to learn on their own based on their prior knowledge






44. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






45. The joining of two or more consonant sounds - represented by letters that begins a word without losing the identity of the sounds - such as /bl/ in black - the joining of the first consonant and vowel sounds in a word - such as /b/ and /a/ in baby. T






46. Advance organizer






47. Suggests that behavior is somewhat controlled by association and illustrated after a neutral stimulus accepts the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through the pairing of some unconditioned stimulus with the neutral stimulus.






48. How long can a muscle produce force






49. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






50. 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







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