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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






2. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






3. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






4. Provide lecture - deliver demonstrations - impart explanations of science topics






5. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






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






7. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






8. Role playing






9. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






10. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






11. You give a list of vocabulary words in L2. Classes are taught in L1.






12. Study of social - political - and cultural values and their impact on scientific research and techological innovation as well as society - politics and culture as a whole






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






14. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer






15. Lower level questioning






16. Events are formed by human perceptions of places and regions - events of past provide insights into climate - resources - ecosystems - and migration of humans - why certain events happened a certain way






17. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words






18. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






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






20. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .






21. Gradually - experiment with numbers - visualize numbers - use numbers - understand number relationships






22. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






23. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






24. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






25. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher






26. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






27. Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness - phonics instruction in context - learn when address reading and writing activities






28. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






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






34. Learning of governmetn function and following the rulse as set forth. legalistic and assimilationist






35. Numbers and operations - algebra - geometry - measurement - data analysis and probability - problem solving - reasining and proof - communicatins - connections - representations






36. In the classroom the teacher and students take on roles similar to that of the parent and child respectively. Students must respond physically to the words of the teacher. The activity may be a simple game such as Simon Says or may involve more compl






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






38. Social or observational learning theory






39. Children develop motor skills at different rates - child's ates doesn't predict motor ability but obtained through use and practice - children develop motor skills through play






40. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






41. A strategy taught to help students use parts of words they have learned to attack words that are unfamiliar






42. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.






43. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






44. Need to know o be functionsl






45. Direct instruction






46. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen






47. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






48. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






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






50. Blending sounds in a word to say the word