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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.






2. Context reduced






3. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






4. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






5. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






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






7. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria






8. (1849-1936) discovered 'conditioning' and initially believed that all behavior was reflexive. Pavlov thought that all learning - whether the elicited responses in animals - or of highly conceptual behaviors in humans was due to the mechanisms of clas






9. 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.






10. The joining of two or more consonant sounds - represented by letters that begins a word without losing the identity of the sounds - such as /bl/ in black - the joining of the first consonant and vowel sounds in a word - such as /b/ and /a/ in baby. T






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






12. Word recognition - comprehension - and fluency






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






14. 30-60 minutes of physical activities on all days - 60 minutes of free play per day - daily activities with 10-15 minutes of moderate action






15. Class newsletter - classroom management system - individual service projects - discuss public issues - participate in elections - school councils - create logo - motto or rules for class






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






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






18. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






19. Quadrant of comprehensible input






20. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard






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






22. Children learn through their observations of others






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






24. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.


25. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.






26. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph






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






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






29. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen






30. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games






31. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






32. Models or visual examples of the information






33. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion






34. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






35. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence






36. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






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






38. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






39. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.






40. Students analyze letter sound relationships from learned words to those not familiar while not pronouncing sounds in isolation






41. Language Acquisition hypothesis






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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.






48. Math word problems






49. Writing






50. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within