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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






2. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






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






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






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






6. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






7. Language Acquisition hypothesis






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






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






10. 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






11. Children learn through their observations of others






12. Word forms and another component of syntax. Morphemes are also the smallest meaningful units in language and word parts that could also change the meaning of a word.






13. 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






14. Multiple intelligences






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






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






17. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.






18. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons






19. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






20. Assertive discipline






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






22. Stages of cognitive development






23. Suggests that behavior is somewhat controlled by association and illustrated after a neutral stimulus accepts the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through the pairing of some unconditioned stimulus with the neutral stimulus.






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






25. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






26. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






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






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






29. Hierarchy of needs






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






31. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols






32. 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






33. Need to know o be functionsl






34. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






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






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






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






39. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable






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






41. Advance organizer






42. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process






43. The initial creative stage of writing - prior to drafting - in which the writer formulates ideas - gathers information - organizes or plans.






44. 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






45. Experiential Learning






46. Development of spoken language system






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






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






49. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency






50. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure