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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Equity - curriculum - teaching - learning - assessment - technology






2. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






3. 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






4. 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).






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






6. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






7. Refers to the observed results of the learners efforts






8. Positive initial experiences - moved from concrete to symbolic very slowly






9. 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






10. 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






11. Ability to understand sound structure of language






12. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data






13. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






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






15. Learning through experience






16. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition






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






18. Math word problems






19. 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






20. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






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






22. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues






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






24. 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






25. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






26. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






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






28. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing






29. Context reduced






30. Systems - order and organization - evidence - models and explanation - change - constancy and measurement - evolution - equilibrium and cycles - form - function and structure






31. Advance organizer






32. Recogize separate sounds in words






33. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






34. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






35. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech






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






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






38. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






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






40. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






41. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






42. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol






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






44. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






45. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.






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






47. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output






48. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






49. Need to know o be functionsl






50. Theory of moral development