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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Drills and exercises






2. Choice/control theory






3. Stages of cognitive development






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






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






6. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






7. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






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






15. 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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16. Models or visual examples of the information






17. An attachment to the end or beginningof base or root words. A generic term that describes prefixes and suffixes word parts 'fixed to' either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the ending of words (suffixes). For example - the word disrespectfulhas






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






19. Multiple intelligences






20. Context reduced






21. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.






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






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






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






25. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






26. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






27. Learning is formal knowledge(rules) - acquistion - at the subconsious level (child's acquiring his first language).

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28. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions






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






30. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic






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






32. 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






33. 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.'






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






35. Funds of knowledge






36. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






37. Body's ability to function efficiently and effectively






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






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






40. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons






41. Writing






42. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned






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






44. Reading






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






46. Recogize separate sounds in words






47. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






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






49. Math word problems






50. Identify words that don't belong in a set