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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






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






3. 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






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






5. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






6. The thought processes students are able to rely on relative to problem solving. Here - students use creativity - analysis - and logic regarding their ability to analyze facts - make comparisons - generate ideas - defend view points - draw inferences






7. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






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






9. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






10. Begin working with decimals






11. Children learn through their observations of others






12. Stages of the ethic of care






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






14. Complete a problem or project with an explanation for an answer






15. 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






16. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






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






18. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






19. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






20. Connectionism






21. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






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






23. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues






24. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






25. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher






26. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






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






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






29. Physical education






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






31. Eight stages of human development






32. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






33. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






34. Multiple intelligences






35. Body's capacity to maintain vigorous physical activity for a period of time






36. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication






37. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






38. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






39. 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






40. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion






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






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






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






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






45. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.






46. Congnitively demanding






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






48. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions






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






50. Lower level questioning