Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned






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






3. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts






4. Children develop motor skills at different rates - child's ates doesn't predict motor ability but obtained through use and practice - children develop motor skills through play






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






6. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


7. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






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






9. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines






10. The use of words peculiar to a particular language with a meaning that differs from typical syntactic patterns or from the literal meaning of its parts taken together. Some examples of idiomatic expressions would include - 'John kicked the bucket' me






11. Sound games - syllable clapping - rhyming songs - poems - jokes and silly rhythms - pictures in books






12. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






13. Movement or equipment moves the child instead of child being in control






14. Learning through experience






15. Challenged in math instruction - qualified teachers - primary standards - utilize and apply number - algebra - geometry - measurement and statistics concepts - activities related to math content - meaningful to students and integrated with other subj






16. Mapping






17. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






18. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole






19. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






20. 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)

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


21. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






22. Construct understanding from the words






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






24. Recogize separate sounds in words






25. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






26. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






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






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






29. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance






30. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines






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






32. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.






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






34. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






35. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






36. Region/area - length - set






37. Learners must be exposed to messages a little bit beyond proficiency

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


38. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context






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






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






41. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






42. Learning of governmetn function and following the rulse as set forth. legalistic and assimilationist






43. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts






44. The joining of two or more consonant sounds - represented by letters that begins a word without losing the identity of the sounds - such as /bl/ in black - the joining of the first consonant and vowel sounds in a word - such as /b/ and /a/ in baby. T






45. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.






46. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






47. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher






48. Avoid stereotypical content - specify historical periods - variety of resources - diverse information






49. Need to know o be functionsl






50. Assertive discipline