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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands
third and fourth grade place value
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
word recognition
orthographic knowledge
2. 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
cardiovascular efficiency
Rogers - Carl
Equilibration
geography curriculum goals
3. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o
Phonogram
geography curriculum goals
Phoneme
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
4. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography
geography areas of knowledge
anthropology activities
Gardner - Howard
skills critical to learning to read and write
5. Face to face conversation
reading instruction should include
Krashen's - The Monitor
Krashen
Quadrant a
6. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization
primary components of learning geography
Access
Bandura - Albert
first grade number sense
7. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills
Krashen's Acquisition vs. Learning
Etymology
Hunter - Madeline
health curriculum
8. Reading
science - technology - society perspective
four aspects of maps
Quadarant d
estimation instruction
9. 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.
Idioms
embedded phonics
literature analysis needs
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
10. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity
instructional cycle for science instruction
fourth level of physical education
aptitude test
phoneme substitution
11. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words
alphabetic principle
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
Operant Conditioning -
Choral Reading
12. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach
CALLA
Emergent Reader
Pieget - Jean
three types of essential lessons for social studies
13. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions
criterion - referenced test
cardiovascular efficiency
multiplication strategies
assessments for reading
14. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations
fraction instruction
estimation instruction
three categories of arts standards
Learning Theories
15. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities
Operant Conditioning -
Thorndike - Edward
basic concepts in physical education
inquiry
16. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge
literature analysis needs
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
fluency
standards - based assessment
17. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction
Choral Reading
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
phonetic
basic concepts in physical education
18. 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.
Bandura - Albert
Rogers - Carl
Classical Conditioning
Equilibration
19. 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
phonemic awareness
people - places and regions curriculum goals
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
transitional
20. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.
fourth level of physical education
Montessori - Maria
Authentic Assessment
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
21. Used prior to occurence of inappropriate behavior - use positive interaction - elimiate differential treatment - and prompting
Functional - notional Approach
whole language approach
NCTM principles
proactive
22. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context
three categories of arts standards
embedded phonics
Emergence Learning
Acquisition
23. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling
phonics
estimation instruction
economics activities
types of number activities from 10-20
24. The division of words into syllables [the minimal units of sequential speech sounds comprised of a vowel sound or a vowel - consonant combination - as /a/ - /ba/ - /ab/ - /bab/ - etc.]
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
five levels of phonological awareness
Syllabication
health curriculum
25. Stages of cognitive development
subtraction strategies
forecasting
Authentic Assessment
Pieget - Jean
26. Writing
Diphthongs
Input
Quadarant d
Krashen's - The Monitor
27. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect
comprehension skills lead to
Mastery Learning
Assimilation
Quadarant d
28. Music
Quadrant a
comprehension skills lead to
oral language
three stages of map reading
29. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech
Pavlov - Ivan
decoding skills
Bruner - Jerome
Orthography
30. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria
social structures activities
diagnostic assessment
authentic assessment
Initial Blends
31. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises
discrepant event
language skills are developed
third level of physical education
domains of learning
32. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes
Functional - notional Approach
phonics and spelling
Quadrant a
Quadrant a and b
33. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students
discrepant event
CALLA
Hidalgo - Nitza
addition strategies
34. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable
phoneme addition
Gardner - Howard
blend
Portfolio Assessment
35. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information
guided inquiry
citizenship curriculum
morpheme
first grade number sense
36. Multiplication and beginning division
poetry instruction helps
psychology activities
alphabetic principle
third grade number sense
37. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines
multiplication strategies
Gilligan - Carol
story problem steps
instructional approaches for reading
38. The history or study of words.
Etymology
first grade number sense
alphabetic principle
three concepts for physical education curriculum
39. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words
onset - rime phonics
analytic phonics
five spelling stages
models
40. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words
five results of print awareness
health curriculum
approach spelling with
Moll - Luis
41. Convert letters into sound sequences and blend sounds to form words
synthetic phonics
Direct Approach (teaching method)
Output
Intake
42. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard
Quadrant a
geography curriculum goals
fluency
phonetic
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
five levels of phonological awareness
Accretion Learning
Information Processing
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
44. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities
Quadarant d
second level of physical education
Echo Reading
social structures activities
45. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor
five levels of learning geometry
authentic assessment
phonics and spelling
Lau Plan
46. 'with - it - ness'
three stages of map reading
Kounin - Jacob
Montessori - Maria
blend
47. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh
Scaffolding
fraction teaching strategies
first and second grade place value
Variable Competence Model (widdowson and ellis)
48. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).
gain print knowledge
citizenship activities
Onomatopoeia
decoding skills
49. Context embedded
fluency
phonemic awareness
Quadarant a and c
Functional - notional Approach
50. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games
models
Quadarant d
Access
gain print knowledge