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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map
Emergence Learning
strategies to help map reading
phoneme blending
Pavlov - Ivan
2. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction
Mnemonic Device
assessment of locomotor skills
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
Homographs
3. Discrepant event - question - inquiry
instructional cycle for science instruction
six traits approach
geography curriculum goals
poetry instruction helps
4. 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
Homographs
citizenship curriculum
body management
Bandura - Albert
5. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises
third level of physical education
inquiry - based
third and fourth grade place value
skills critical to learning to read and write
6. Counting to 100
Kounin - Jacob
Orthography
CALLA
kindergarten place value
7. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
Echo Reading
assessments for reading
factors that predict reading achievement
8. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments
curriculum plan for political science
Pavlov - Ivan
ways to encourage citizenship
Direct Approach (teaching method)
9. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels
Canter - Lee
key points in study of people
Reflective Teaching
phonics instruction
10. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness
guided inquiry
second grade number sense
skills critical to learning to read and write
story problem steps
11. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction
Affixes
Initial Blends
basic concepts in physical education
Phoneme
12. Level of readiness must be reached to learn
Quadarant d
poetry instruction helps
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
developmental theory
13. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue
reactive
body composition
linguistic awareness
reading aloud promotes
14. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions
Syntactic System
Glasser - William
Bandura - Albert
six traits approach
15. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic
citizenship curriculum
phoneme deletion
skills needed to decode
Learning Theories
16. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.
Conventional Spelling
Access
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
economics skills
17. Blending sounds in a word to say the word
phonemic awareness
Moll - Luis
Operant Conditioning -
demonstration
18. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness
activities to gain language knowledge
Rime
factors that predict reading achievement
fourth level of physical education
19. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts
precommunicative spelling
Functional - notional Approach
Summative evaluation
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
20. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.
Guided Writing
physical fitness
Deductive Reasoning
five spelling stages
21. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication
first grade number sense
sociology activities
geography curriculum goals
Round - robin Reading
22. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle
skills needed to decode
how to develop number sense
five levels of phonological awareness
citizenship activities
23. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
Hunter - Madeline
Portfolio Assessment
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
24. Choice/control theory
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
Glasser - William
four aspects of maps
25. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.
CALLA
skills needed to read
Rime
Guided Reading
26. Language Acquisition hypothesis
developmental theory
forecasting
Krashen
literature based reading approach
27. 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
three stages of map reading
geography curriculum goals
Aids for ELL learners
physical and human systems curriculum goals
28. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.
Quadarant d
geography curriculum goals
Alphabetic Principle
Acquisition
29. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).
six traits approach
dynamic assessment
Onomatopoeia
Quadarant d
30. Identify ELL's - design an effective program reflective of their needs - employ appropriate ESL or bilingual personell or both - align ELL's to state and local content standards - and to provide ongoing authentic assessment
Deductive Reasoning
first grade number sense
Bandura - Albert
Lau Plan
31. Children learn through their observations of others
sociological theory
health curriculum
Krashen's - The Monitor
estimation instruction
32. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables
phonics
economics activities
onset and rime
Round - robin Reading
33. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.
language skills are developed
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
fourth and fifth grade number sense
factors that predict reading achievement
34. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach
Gardner - Howard
CALLA
Classical Conditioning
kindergarten place value
35. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography
overall importance of the arts
comprehension skills lead to
three concepts for physical education curriculum
geography areas of knowledge
36. Equity - curriculum - teaching - learning - assessment - technology
NCTM principles
instructional approaches for reading
transformation
Montessori - Maria
37. 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.
Assimilation
curriculum - based measure
kindergarten place value
fraction instruction
38. 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
Gardner - Howard
domains of learning
precontrol
phonics instruction approach
39. Refined mastery of multiplication and division
orthographic knowledge
portfolios
fourth and fifth grade number sense
assessment of locomotor skills
40. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .
fraction manipulatives
Homographs
Summative evaluation
Accretion Learning
41. Subtraction as think - addition - subtraction facts with sums to 10 - sums greater than 10
subtraction strategies
Neurolinguistics Theory (Lamendella)
Onomatopoeia
narrative texts include
42. The thought processes students are able to rely on relative to problem solving. Here - students use creativity - analysis - and logic regarding their ability to analyze facts - make comparisons - generate ideas - defend view points - draw inferences
flexibility
Critical Thinking
COPEC guidelines for physical education
Kohlberg - Lawrence
43. 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
Neurolinguistics Theory (Lamendella)
Homographs
science - technology - society perspective
authentic assessment
44. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor
Morphemes
science - technology - society perspective
CALP
five levels of learning geometry
45. Multiplication and beginning division
third grade number sense
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
46. Writing
onset and rime
Conventional Spelling
Quadarant d
types of number relationships for 1-10
47. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
Constructivism
Round - robin Reading
third and fourth grade place value
48. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.
Canter - Lee
Erikson - Erik
onset - rime phonics
Semantics
49. Physical education
Montessori - Maria
Equilibration
Quadrant a
five levels of phonological awareness
50. 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
Learning Theories
Krashen's Acquisition vs. Learning
Krashen
Round - robin Reading