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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.
Acquisition
phonics and spelling
Guided Writing
approach spelling with
2. The teacher remains mainly silent - to give students the space they need to learn to talk. In this approach - it is assumed that the students' previous experience of learning from their mother tongue will contribute to learning the new foreign langua
laboratory - experimentation
first grade number sense
The Silent Way (teaching method)
Quadarant c
3. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography
utilization
Emergence Learning
Input
geography areas of knowledge
4. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word
economics skills
Quadrant a and b
Dewey - John (1859-1952)-
phoneme substitution
5. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes
fourth level of physical education
phonics
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
6. Determines student's ability to learn in a certain situation
phonemic awareness fostered with
skills needed to decode
word recognition
dynamic assessment
7. Music
performance tasks
Deductive Reasoning
decoding skills
Quadrant a
8. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning
problem solving teaching strategies
muscular endurance
cardiovascular efficiency
linguistic awareness
9. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel
Pavlov - Ivan
Thorndike - Edward
three stages of map reading
economics curriculum goals
10. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping
phoneme isolation
Learning Theories
three categories of arts standards
locomotor skill progression
11. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor
comprehension
five levels of learning geometry
Phonics
Quadrant a
12. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting
process indicators
Affixes
five levels of learning geometry
kindergarten place value
13. Is the subconscious or subliminal - process by which individuals learn important things like language - prejudices - habits - social rules and behaviors. Accretion is a process where individuals are totally unaware that learning is taking place. Accr
precontrol
Accretion Learning
Output
fifth grade place value
14. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication
proactive
muscular endurance
Quadrant a
Access
15. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development
psychology activities
Schemata - a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are three types of schemata's - content - language - and textual. 1.) Content Schemata
Kounin - Jacob
unifying processes of science
16. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .
reading aloud promotes
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
body composition
Homographs
17. Follow the child
Montessori - Maria
narrative texts include
Kounin - Jacob
Gilligan - Carol
18. 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
Phoneme
morpheme
phonics instruction approach
Quadarant c
19. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
geography areas of knowledge
decoding skills
Pieget - Jean
20. Eight stages of human development
key points in study of people
Erikson - Erik
Emergent Reader
Dewey - John
21. The study of the nature and use of symbols in a writing system; correct or standardized spelling according to established usage in a given language.
Glasser - William
strategies to help map reading
Metacognition involves several important elements including - designing - monitoring - and assessing a specific plan of action. Steps students should take to enhance metacognition: (1) identify how much they know about a specific topic to consider fo
Orthography
22. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction
inquiry - based
Quadrant b
Operant Conditioning -
direct daily measurement
23. What a government is and how governments function - how rules are made and enforced - why government is necessary - democratic values and beleifs of civic life
political science curriculum goals
CALP
instructional cycle for science instruction
primary components of learning geography
24. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.
alternative assessment
decoding
Mnemonic Device
Authentic Assessment
25. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues
Echo Reading
first level of physical education
Morphemes
citizenship curriculum
26. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing
Formative Evaluation
expository method
five results of print awareness
assessment of locomotor skills
27. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data
discrepant event
transformation
locomotor skills
things to include when completing tasks on probability and statistics
28. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.
Quadrant a and b
Guided Reading
free discovery method
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
29. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment
ecological - based assessment
estimation instruction
first and second grade place value
Digraphs
30. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.
Quadarant a and c
Diphthongs
Operant Conditioning -
comprehension skills lead to
31. Learning of governmetn function and following the rulse as set forth. legalistic and assimilationist
linguistic awareness
economics activities
transmission
analytic phonics
32. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development
primary components of learning geography
story problem steps
word recognition
enrichment strategies
33. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated
ways to encourage citizenship
second grade number sense
control
enrichment strategies
34. Recogize separate sounds in words
phoneme isolation
third grade number sense
CALLA
third level of physical education
35. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass
guided inquiry
phoneme blending
body composition
Rime
36. A strategy where the teacher reads a line or passage with good expression - and calls on students to read it back. This is a good technique to use with Emergent Readers to help them build reading fluency.
Echo Reading
citizenship curriculum
types of number relationships for 1-10
transformation
37. 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
Hunter - Madeline
fraction manipulatives
Acquisition
Information Processing
38. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks
observation
Portfolio Assessment
Hunter - Madeline
curriculum - based measure
39. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha
four aspects of maps
Acquisition
overall importance of the arts
Quadrant a
40. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).
language skills are developed
Authentic Assessment
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
Onomatopoeia
41. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency
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42. 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
alphabetic principle
approach spelling with
Scaffolding
expository method
43. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence
fraction manipulatives
four levels of physical education assessment
economics skills
social discipline
44. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
Lau vs. Nichols
alternative assessment
third and fourth grade place value
45. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals
Constructivism
standards - based assessment
geography curriculum goals
parallel process
46. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
Rime
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
poetry instruction helps
47. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words
Bandura - Albert
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
onset - rime phonics
Quadarant d
48. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.
gain print knowledge
Phonogram
fraction manipulatives
phonemic awareness
49. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.
Canter - Lee
transmission
Cooperative Learning
Krashen's stages of second language acquisition
50. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making
Quadarant a and c
concepts and skills for social studies
transmission
Direct Approach (teaching method)
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