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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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






2. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher.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






3. 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%






4. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






5. 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






6. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






7. Ability to understand sound structure of language






8. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole






9. Construct understanding from the words






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






11. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






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






13. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






14. S manifested via structuring - patterning - and constructing meaning - understanding - and ideas that did not exist initially. This process involves insight - reflection - creative expression - and/or group interactions. This method of learning is de






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






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






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






18. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






19. Funds of knowledge






20. Amount of force a muscle can produce






21. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






22. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development






23. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






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






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






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






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






28. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension






29. Assertive discipline






30. 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.






31. Congnitively demanding






32. Advance organizer






33. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






34. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

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35. Role playing






36. 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






37. Reading






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






39. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.






40. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass






41. Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in unison to enhance oral reading fluency.






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. Development of spoken language system






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






48. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






49. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery






50. 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