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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






2. Avoid stereotypical content - specify historical periods - variety of resources - diverse information






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






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






5. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






6. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






7. New vocabulary - descriptive words - realistic viewpoints of people and environment






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






9. Face to face conversation






10. The history or study of words.






11. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction






12. 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






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






14. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments






15. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






16. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






17. Found that although environment causes behavior - behavior also causes environment as well. Bandura labeled this concept reciprocal determinism -'both the world the individual's behavior 'cause' affect each other. Bandura is considered a 'father' of






18. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






19. Social or observational learning theory






20. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned






21. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%






22. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities






23. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.

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24. 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






25. Constructivist theory is a general framework for instruction based upon the study of cognition. Constructivism is based on the belief that children construct meaning from their experiences - and are not just passive receivers of information. Much of






26. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






27. Ability to understand sound structure of language






28. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






29. Convert letters into sound sequences and blend sounds to form words






30. Physical education






31. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






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






33. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words






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






35. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

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36. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin






37. Context embedded






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






39. 'if so - how?' In short - metacognition is simply the process of 'thinking about thinking.' In fact - good readers use metacognition before they read anythingin order to help them clarify their purpose for reading and to preview the text.






40. Connectionism






41. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






42. A word that is easily recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification or pronunciation - (i.e. - Dolch 220 Sight Vocabulary List).






43. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks






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






45. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge






46. Congnitively demanding






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






48. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information






49. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






50. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations