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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments
curriculum plan for political science
health curriculum
citizenship curriculum
Krashen's Natural Approach
2. Math word problems
synthetic phonics
Cummins
Quadarant d
ecological - based assessment
3. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words
Initial Blends
approach spelling with
Rogers - Carl
Etymology
4. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%
Acquisition
purpose of teaching reading
morpheme
observation
5. Operant conditioning
Information Processing
achievement test
Skinner - B.F.
core beliefs of mathematics education
6. Complete a problem or project with an explanation for an answer
inquiry - based
comprehension strategy
performance tasks
decoding
7. The process of adapting a new culture;the new langage is seen as tied to the way the learners community and the target language community view one another.
Phonics
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
Quadrant a and b
Skinner - B.F.
8. Integrates the variable for selected investigation
Schemata - a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are three types of schemata's - content - language - and textual. 1.) Content Schemata
CALLA
question
Kounin - Jacob
9. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials
Dewey - John
fifth grade place value
Aids for ELL learners
Quadrant a and b
10. S manifested via structuring - patterning - and constructing meaning - understanding - and ideas that did not exist initially. This process involves insight - reflection - creative expression - and/or group interactions. This method of learning is de
forecasting
first and second grade place value
Krashen's Natural Approach
Emergence Learning
11. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art
Montessori - Maria
Cooperative Learning
addition strategies
objectives of arts education
12. 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.'
third level of physical education
focus of physical education
Rime
orthographic knowledge
13. 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
political science curriculum goals
Mastery Learning
Round - robin Reading
Quadarant b and d
14. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.
Quadrant a and b
Cognitive Coaching
body composition
aptitude test
15. 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
analytic phonics
phoneme isolation
comprehension skills lead to
overall importance of the arts
16. 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
Experiential Learning
aptitude test
Quadarant d
Affixes
17. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen
anecdotal record
citizenship curriculum
third level of physical education
Quadrant a and b
18. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
components of decision making
social discipline
Information Processing
19. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words
social structures activities
transitional
inquiry - based
Homographs
20. Subtraction as think - addition - subtraction facts with sums to 10 - sums greater than 10
subtraction strategies
Direct Approach (teaching method)
Lau vs. Nichols
semiphonic spelling
21. 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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22. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity
parallel process
purpose of physical education
phoneme deletion
Digraphs
23. '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.
Quadarant d
linguistic awareness
three concepts for physical education curriculum
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
24. Stages of cognitive development
diagnostic assessment
Learning Theories
Pieget - Jean
concepts and skills for social studies
25. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
political science curriculum goals
overall importance of the arts
blend
26. Learning through experience
Dewey - John
Quadrant a
domains of learning
Schemata - a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are three types of schemata's - content - language - and textual. 1.) Content Schemata
27. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing
guided inquiry
Canter - Lee
journal writing
proficiency
28. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.
Mnemonic Device
Echo Reading
guided inquiry
ecological - based assessment
29. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making
concepts and skills for social studies
Erikson - Erik
morpheme
process indicators
30. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills
Gilligan - Carol
Accretion Learning
Intake
reading aloud promotes
31. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling
fraction teaching strategies
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
body management
anthropology activities
32. 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
Information Processing
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
Homographs
literature analysis needs
33. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization
dynamic assessment
primary components of learning geography
Krashen's Natural Approach
fraction manipulatives
34. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence
instructional approaches for reading
science - technology - society perspective
locomotor skill progression
precommunicative spelling
35. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application
Classical Conditioning
Quadarant a and c
Quadarant d
explicit comprehension instructoin
36. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process
curriculum plan for political science
Guided Reading
Input
Skinner - B.F.
37. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word
fluency
phoneme addition
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
Guided Reading
38. Numbers and operations - algebra - geometry - measurement - data analysis and probability - problem solving - reasining and proof - communicatins - connections - representations
decoding
phoneme addition
fourth and fifth grade number sense
ten general standard strands
39. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments
locomotor skills
Quadarant c
fraction manipulatives
whole language approach
40. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations
primary components of learning geography
Canter - Lee
Functional - notional Approach
inquiry - based
41. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
comprehension skills lead to
print awareness
estimation instruction
42. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach
instructional approaches for reading
subtraction strategies
CALLA
anthropology activities
43. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.
Canter - Lee
Alphabetic Principle
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
explicit comprehension instructoin
44. Lower level questioning
COPEC guidelines for physical education
Quadarant c
Rogers - Carl
Thorndike - Edward
45. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.
Canter - Lee
reactive
Digraphs
analogy - based phonics
46. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors
Idioms
whole language approach
onset - rime phonics
social discipline
47. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.
Assimilation
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
Information Processing
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
48. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor
ten general standard strands
five levels of learning geometry
phoneme identity
health curriculum
49. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence
Sight Word
health curriculum
three types of essential lessons for social studies
decoding
50. Discrepant event - question - inquiry
instructional cycle for science instruction
Whole Language
Operant Conditioning -
Maslow - Abraham