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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






2. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






3. Hierarchy of needs






4. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






5. Connectionism






6. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






7. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






8. A theory advanced by George A. Miller who stressed the idea that short - term memory could only hold 5-9 chunks of information (seven plus or minus two). The term chunk represents any meaningful unit (i.e. - digits - words - pictures - etc.). The con






9. Funds of knowledge






10. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






11. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






12. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments






13. How long can a muscle produce force






14. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






15. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication






16. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






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






18. (1849-1936) discovered 'conditioning' and initially believed that all behavior was reflexive. Pavlov thought that all learning - whether the elicited responses in animals - or of highly conceptual behaviors in humans was due to the mechanisms of clas






19. 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






20. Physical education






21. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations






22. Assertive discipline






23. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art






24. Context embedded






25. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






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






27. Students analyze letter sound relationships from learned words to those not familiar while not pronouncing sounds in isolation






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






29. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%






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






31. Region/area - length - set






32. 'if so - how?' In short - metacognition is simply the process of 'thinking about thinking.' In fact - good readers use metacognition before they read anythingin order to help them clarify their purpose for reading and to preview the text.






33. 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.






34. Modeling






35. Refers to the observed results of the learners efforts






36. The history or study of words.






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






38. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students






39. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






40. Students need to be given time to correct themselves. Teachers can be optimal (users monitor when to focus on form) - overusers (refer to conscious grammer all the time) - underusers(do not refer to grammer at all)

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






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






43. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






44. Body's capacity to maintain vigorous physical activity for a period of time






45. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games






46. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments






47. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words






48. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision






49. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






50. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency