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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.






2. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within






3. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations






4. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






5. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






6. Proficiency of the academic Language






7. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities






8. Assertive discipline






9. Hierarchy of needs






10. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines






11. Direct instruction






12. Children develop motor skills at different rates - child's ates doesn't predict motor ability but obtained through use and practice - children develop motor skills through play






13. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






14. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






15. Equity - curriculum - teaching - learning - assessment - technology






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






17. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






18. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






19. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






20. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data






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






22. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






23. 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






24. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.






25. Mapping






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






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






28. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






29. Formal measure of tests to evaluate student ability to acquire skills






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






31. Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in unison to enhance oral reading fluency.






32. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






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






34. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






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. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






37. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






38. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .






39. Multiplication and beginning division






40. Advance organizer






41. Three levels of culture






42. Social or observational learning theory






43. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






44. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






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






46. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records






47. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable






48. Art






49. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






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