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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






2. The teacher remains mainly silent - to give students the space they need to learn to talk. In this approach - it is assumed that the students' previous experience of learning from their mother tongue will contribute to learning the new foreign langua






3. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography






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






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






6. Determines student's ability to learn in a certain situation






7. Music






8. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






9. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






10. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






11. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






12. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






13. Is the subconscious or subliminal - process by which individuals learn important things like language - prejudices - habits - social rules and behaviors. Accretion is a process where individuals are totally unaware that learning is taking place. Accr






14. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication






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






16. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .






17. Follow the child






18. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o






19. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech






20. Eight stages of human development






21. 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.






22. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






23. 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






24. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






25. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues






26. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






27. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data






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






29. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






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






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






32. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






33. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated






34. Recogize separate sounds in words






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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






39. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






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






41. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

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42. 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






43. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






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






45. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






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






47. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words






48. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.






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






50. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making






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