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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development
word recognition
locomotor skills
Experiential Learning
Summative evaluation
2. Context embedded
fluency
literature analysis needs
Quadarant a and c
Krashen's stages of second language acquisition
3. 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
unifying processes of science
Idioms
Glasser - William
flexibility
4. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.
citizenship curriculum
Phonics
fraction instruction
Glasser - William
5. Math word problems
Hidalgo - Nitza
language skills are developed
Quadarant d
Semantics
6. Congnitively demanding
sociology activities
Quadarant c and d
Pieget - Jean
analogy - based phonics
7. Writing
expository method
phonics
geography curriculum goals
Quadarant d
8. Advance organizer
Gilligan - Carol
Ausubel - David
language skills are developed
sociological theory
9. Reading
Guided Writing
Quadarant c
Variable Competence Model (widdowson and ellis)
Quadarant d
10. Amount of force a muscle can produce
portfolios
whole language approach
muscular strength
phonological awareness
11. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words
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
Intake
transitional
inquiry promotes
12. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen
poetry instruction helps
fluency
Ausubel - David
citizenship curriculum
13. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials
inquiry
narrative texts include
Aids for ELL learners
criterion - referenced test
14. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction
basic concepts in physical education
indicators of attitude about science
objectives of arts education
subtraction strategies
15. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.
Conventional Spelling
Bandura - Albert
physical and human systems curriculum goals
phoneme addition
16. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word
body management
phonological awareness
health curriculum
phoneme blending
17. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.
poetry instruction helps
portfolios
reading aloud promotes
Cognitive Coaching
18. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication
Reading Approach (teaching method)
Equilibration
physical fitness
social structures activities
19. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling
parallel process
Pieget - Jean
anthropology activities
phoneme identity
20. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.
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21. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols
locomotor skill progression
phoneme addition
orthographic knowledge
expository method
22. 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 Experience Approach (LEA)
proficiency
NCTM principles
inquiry
23. 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
synthetic phonics
Skinner - B.F.
Classical Conditioning
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
24. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.
literature analysis needs
muscular strength
Bandura - Albert
Alphabetic Principle
25. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks
Quadrant a
Quadrant a
observation
utilization
26. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities
CALP
Assimilation
precontrol
second level of physical education
27. Systems - order and organization - evidence - models and explanation - change - constancy and measurement - evolution - equilibrium and cycles - form - function and structure
unifying processes of science
key points in study of people
Initial Blends
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
28. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words
unifying processes of science
embedded phonics
core beliefs of mathematics education
reading aloud promotes
29. Stages of the ethic of care
purpose of physical education
Quadrant a
Orthography
Gilligan - Carol
30. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons
indicators of attitude about science
third level of physical education
Input
enrichment strategies
31. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
standards - based assessment
fourth and fifth grade number sense
geography curriculum goals
32. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
Quadarant c
expository method
Guided Reading
33. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process
Montessori - Maria
precommunicative spelling
Input
economics curriculum goals
34. 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
inquiry
Glasser - William
proficiency
political science curriculum goals
35. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment
ecological - based assessment
Echo Reading
inquiry - based
Quadarant c
36. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole
types of number relationships for 1-10
story problem steps
Round - robin Reading
instructional approaches for reading
37. Assertive discipline
curriculum - based measure
Intake
Maslow - Abraham
Canter - Lee
38. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion
Canter - Lee
flexibility
narrative texts include
phonics instruction approach
39. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues
Quadarant c
three types of essential lessons for social studies
citizenship curriculum
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
40. 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
Initial Blends
Behaviorism
six traits approach
Quadarant d
41. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.
alternative assessment
free discovery method
Pavlov - Ivan P.
Echo Reading
42. The smallest unit of language that has meaning and may be a part of a word
Affixes
Quadrant a
morpheme
inquiry
43. Learning through experience
Echo Reading
Dewey - John
muscular endurance
fourth level of physical education
44. Quadrant of comprehensible input
Cooperative Learning
Rime
Cummins
indicators of attitude about science
45. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.
Morphemes
Kounin - Jacob
Conventional Spelling
Portfolio Assessment
46. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables
onset and rime
comprehension
Quadarant c
Pavlov - Ivan P.
47. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills
reading aloud promotes
question
precommunicative spelling
Krashen's Natural Approach
48. 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
phoneme categorization
Idioms
Bandura - Albert
norm - referenced test
49. The reader at the beginning stages of learning to read and developing an association of print with meaning. During this stage of reading development - children engage in reading play and retelling familiar stories from memory and using pictures to ma
ten general standard strands
Aids for ELL learners
economics activities
Emergent Reader
50. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities
inquiry
Quadarant d
Cooperative Learning
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)