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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






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






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






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






5. Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in unison to enhance oral reading fluency.






6. Art






7. Language student's will emerge naturally whey they are given the opprotunity and need (motivation) to speak in a non - coercive/low anxiety situations.

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8. A strategy where the teacher reads a line or passage with good expression - and calls on students to read it back. This is a good technique to use with Emergent Readers to help them build reading fluency.






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






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






11. Role playing






12. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction






13. Discovery learning and constructivism






14. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou






15. Direct instruction






16. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






17. Hierarchy of needs






18. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher.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






19. Proficiency of the academic Language






20. Word recognition - comprehension - and fluency






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






22. The study of the nature and use of symbols in a writing system; correct or standardized spelling according to established usage in a given language.






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






24. Classical conditioning






25. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing






26. 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.






27. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






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






29. 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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30. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies






31. Equity - curriculum - teaching - learning - assessment - technology






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






36. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






37. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information






38. Context embedded






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






40. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






41. 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






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






43. '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.






44. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.






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






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






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






48. 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






49. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context






50. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

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