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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






2. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.






3. Modeling






4. Formal measure of tests to evaluate student ability to acquire skills






5. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






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






7. You give a list of vocabulary words in L2. Classes are taught in L1.






8. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities






9. 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.






10. Proficiency of the academic Language






11. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






12. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






13. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






14. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






15. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass






16. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output






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






18. Motivation is the primary determinant of L2 proficiency;The more motivated you are the better you will perform






19. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map






20. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.






21. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






22. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






23. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






24. Numbers and operations - algebra - geometry - measurement - data analysis and probability - problem solving - reasining and proof - communicatins - connections - representations






25. 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






26. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.






27. 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






28. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development






29. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks






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






31. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






32. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






33. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






34. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh






35. Writing






36. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






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






38. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






39. Learning through experience






40. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






41. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge






42. Eight stages of human development






43. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






44. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






45. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






46. Used for specific uses of the language. People who do not want to travel abroad - but just need to read it.






47. Hierarchy of needs






48. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






49. Systems - order and organization - evidence - models and explanation - change - constancy and measurement - evolution - equilibrium and cycles - form - function and structure






50. The part of a syllable (not a word) consisting of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it - the first vowel in a word along with all of the sounds that follow - for example - /- utterfly/ in 'butterfly.'