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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Identify words that don't belong in a set






2. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






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






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






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






6. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






7. 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






8. Art






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






10. Follow the child






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






12. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






13. Subtraction as think - addition - subtraction facts with sums to 10 - sums greater than 10






14. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






15. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






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






17. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency






18. Advance organizer






19. (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






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






21. Direct instruction






22. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers






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






24. Word recognition - comprehension - and fluency






25. Context reduced






26. Learning through experience






27. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue






28. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






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






30. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






31. Three levels of culture






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






33. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction






34. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






35. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision






36. 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






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






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






39. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.






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






41. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling






42. 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






43. 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






44. Language student's will emerge naturally whey they are given the opprotunity and need (motivation) to speak in a non - coercive/low anxiety situations.

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45. Spatial awareness - effort - and peer relationships developed through movement concepts and skill themes






46. Multiplication and beginning division






47. Determines student's ability to learn in a certain situation






48. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






49. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context






50. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions