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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness
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
phoneme isolation
muscular strength
factors that predict reading achievement
2. 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
3. Operant Conditioning
body management
Vygotsky - Lev
Skinner - B.F.
muscular strength
4. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor
Quadrant a
Morphemes
phonics instruction approach
five levels of learning geometry
5. 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
five spelling stages
Round - robin Reading
skills critical to learning to read and write
The Silent Way (teaching method)
6. Stages of the ethic of care
Gilligan - Carol
Syntactic System
portfolios
alphabetic principle
7. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships
norm - referenced test
Digraphs
discrepant event
body management
8. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns
focus of elementary math curriculum
CALP
models
language skills are developed
9. 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.
linguistic awareness
Quadrant a
Access
Orthography
10. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.
Neurolinguistics Theory (Lamendella)
precontrol
expository method
reading instruction should include
11. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process
transitional
five results of print awareness
Echo Reading
laboratory - experimentation
12. Congnitively demanding
Quadarant c and d
Bruner - Jerome
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
body management
13. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts
Syllabication
addition strategies
Bruner - Jerome
Whole Language
14. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment
Quadarant d
linguistic awareness
ecological - based assessment
purpose of physical education
15. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity
proactive
parallel process
decoding skills
anecdotal record
16. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities
first level of physical education
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
Mnemonic Device
control
17. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping
locomotor skill progression
citizenship curriculum
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
citizenship curriculum
18. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts
physical fitness
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
ecological - based assessment
key points in study of people
19. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
comprehension skills lead to
fifth grade place value
Onomatopoeia
20. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues
word recognition
Reading Approach (teaching method)
citizenship curriculum
Syntactic System
21. Formal measure of tests to evaluate student ability to acquire skills
constructivism
aptitude test
Bandura - Albert
standards - based assessment
22. Direct instruction
kindergarten place value
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
Hunter - Madeline
Mastery Learning
23. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard
five levels of phonological awareness
phonetic
Semantics
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
24. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition
precommunicative spelling
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
expository method
print awareness
25. Movement or equipment moves the child instead of child being in control
Classical Conditioning
precontrol
Skinner - B.F.
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
26. The part of a syllable (not a word) consisting of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it - the first vowel in a word along with all of the sounds that follow - for example - /- utterfly/ in 'butterfly.'
Rime
Cummins
Emergence Learning
curriculum for reading include
27. Spatial awareness - effort - and peer relationships developed through movement concepts and skill themes
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
Portfolio Assessment
analytic phonics
focus of physical education
28. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills
process indicators
Access
health curriculum
utilization
29. Context embedded
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
Quadarant a and c
fraction manipulatives
question
30. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech
Skinner - B.F.
Strategies for teaching
free discovery method
decoding skills
31. Positive initial experiences - moved from concrete to symbolic very slowly
diagnostic assessment
Operant Conditioning -
fraction instruction
key points in study of people
32. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.
Direct Approach (teaching method)
phoneme deletion
Deductive Reasoning
Phonogram
33. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines
phonemic awareness
Gardner - Howard
economics curriculum goals
three types of essential lessons for social studies
34. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen
Gilligan - Carol
domains of learning
intrinsic phonics
models
35. Need to know o be functionsl
Gardner - Howard
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
norm - referenced test
Functional - notional Approach
36. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities
citizenship activities
ecological - based assessment
five levels of learning geometry
second level of physical education
37. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum
anthropology activities
curriculum - based measure
Skinner - B.F.
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
38. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development
Intake
word recognition
Quadarant c
alternative assessment
39. Ability to understand sound structure of language
estimation instruction
oral language
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
linguistic awareness
40. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable
blend
Lau vs. Nichols
sociology activities
Emergence Learning
41. Music
Gardner - Howard
Mnemonic Device
Portfolio Assessment
Quadrant a
42. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education
Mnemonic Device
Alphabetic Principle
economics activities
second grade number sense
43. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned
locomotor skill progression
authentic assessment
achievement test
story problem steps
44. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing
Erikson - Erik
three types of essential lessons for social studies
Syntactic System
journal writing
45. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities
Ausubel - David
Syntactic System
inquiry
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
46. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials
Acquisition
Quadrant a
Aids for ELL learners
ten general standard strands
47. 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.
sociological theory
sociology activities
Gardner - Howard
Phonogram
48. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments
Thorndike - Edward
narrative texts include
curriculum plan for political science
Affixes
49. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records
inquiry
assessments for reading
psychology activities
curriculum - based measure
50. Art
criterion - referenced test
anthropology activities
linguistic awareness
Quadrant a