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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






2. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






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. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence






5. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






6. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication






7. Steer children into the practice of becoming physically active throughout their lifetimes - improve academic achievement and ability to gain knowledge






8. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making






9. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






10. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






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






12. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education






13. Multiple intelligences






14. Credited with coining the Multiple Intelligences Theory which is a pluralized way of understanding the intellect. Researchers believe that each person's level of intelligence is made up of autonomous faculties that can work individually or in concert






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






16. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography






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






18. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






19. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






20. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






21. 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.






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






23. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






24. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






25. Direct instruction






26. Language Acquisition hypothesis






27. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






28. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies






29. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






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






31. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts






32. Ability to understand sound structure of language






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






34. Quadrant of comprehensible input






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






36. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output






37. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum






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






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






40. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






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






42. Stages of the ethic of care






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






44. Operant conditioning






45. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






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






47. Motivation is the primary determinant of L2 proficiency;The more motivated you are the better you will perform






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






49. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






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