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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.
focus of elementary math curriculum
Whole Language
decoding
Guided Reading
2. Counting to 100
phoneme substitution
Skinner - B.F.
kindergarten place value
phoneme categorization
3. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.
Maslow - Abraham
Quadrant a
Quadarant c and d
Authentic Assessment
4. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language
Direct Approach (teaching method)
Formative Evaluation
Variable Competence Model (widdowson and ellis)
embedded phonics
5. 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
Mnemonic Device
demonstration
health curriculum
Information Processing
6. Social or observational learning theory
environment and society curriculum goals
Bandura - Albert
Direct Approach (teaching method)
precontrol
7. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.
Conventional Spelling
muscular endurance
Pieget - Jean
skills needed to read
8. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria
authentic assessment
muscular strength
portfolios
phoneme identity
9. Development of spoken language system
developmental theory
Whole Language
oral language
Conventional Spelling
10. Region/area - length - set
first and second grade place value
sociology activities
Maslow - Abraham
fraction manipulatives
11. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen
cardiovascular efficiency
approach spelling with
models
Phoneme
12. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication
Krashen
developmental theory
Access
Hidalgo - Nitza
13. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies
Bandura - Albert
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
addition strategies
curriculum for reading include
14. Physical education
criterion - referenced test
purpose of teaching reading
economics curriculum goals
Quadrant a
15. Understanding that sounds are related to written words
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
economics skills
standards - based assessment
phonological awareness
16. Assertive discipline
sociological theory
Canter - Lee
Kounin - Jacob
fourth and fifth grade number sense
17. 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
Lau Plan
flexibility
phoneme segmentation
three stages of map reading
18. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art
psychology activities
models
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
objectives of arts education
19. Positive initial experiences - moved from concrete to symbolic very slowly
skills critical to learning to read and write
three stages of map reading
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
fraction instruction
20. Used prior to occurence of inappropriate behavior - use positive interaction - elimiate differential treatment - and prompting
Kounin - Jacob
proactive
Critical Thinking
six traits approach
21. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines
diagnostic assessment
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
three types of essential lessons for social studies
Quadrant a and b
22. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing
cardiovascular efficiency
environment and society curriculum goals
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
constructivism
23. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons
enrichment strategies
first and second grade place value
Maslow - Abraham
Syntactic System
24. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors
political science curriculum goals
social discipline
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
25. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations
overall importance of the arts
inquiry - based
Vygotsky - Lev
curriculum plan for political science
26. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication
focus of physical education
Quadarant c
COPEC guidelines for physical education
social structures activities
27. Three levels of culture
Quadarant d
Acquisition
Hidalgo - Nitza
Experiential Learning
28. Eight stages of human development
curriculum plan for political science
Erikson - Erik
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
phoneme blending
29. Coined by Piaget to identify a process that regulates tension between assimilation (information) and accommodation (learning). Equilibration implies that individuals learn through experiences somewhat different from previous experiences. Thus - their
primary components of learning geography
NCTM principles
language skills are developed
Equilibration
30. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process
Krashen's Natural Approach
Input
Cooperative Learning
transformation
31. Operant Conditioning
Skinner - B.F.
linguistic awareness
laboratory - experimentation
Experiential Learning
32. Zone of proximal development
core beliefs of mathematics education
Pre - writing
Vygotsky - Lev
Neurolinguistics Theory (Lamendella)
33. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.
Assimilation
number sense
Summative evaluation
CALLA
34. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol
inquiry - based
curriculum for reading include
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
35. Role playing
types of number relationships for 1-10
Scaffolding
CALP
Quadarant c
36. Refined mastery of multiplication and division
fourth and fifth grade number sense
laboratory - experimentation
forecasting
Skinner - B.F.
37. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships
environment and society curriculum goals
Reading Approach (teaching method)
body management
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
38. Reading
Quadarant d
literature analysis needs
proficiency
Krashen's stages of second language acquisition
39. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions
Sight Word
criterion - referenced test
Initial Blends
three categories of arts standards
40. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group
direct daily measurement
norm - referenced test
phonetic
journal writing
41. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.
Alphabetic Principle
Syntactic System
curriculum plan for political science
phoneme blending
42. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.
analogy - based phonics
Digraphs
three types of essential lessons for social studies
The Silent Way (teaching method)
43. 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
fraction teaching strategies
Quadrant a
morpheme
44. Lower level questioning
observation
Quadarant c
guided inquiry
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
45. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue
Rogers - Carl
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
reactive
observation
46. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance
flexibility
anecdotal record
onset - rime phonics
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
47. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
Kohlberg - Lawrence
Diphthongs
strategies to help map reading
48. A word that is easily recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification or pronunciation - (i.e. - Dolch 220 Sight Vocabulary List).
Skinner - B.F.
Sight Word
discrepant event
Functional - notional Approach
49. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante
Quadrant b
fourth and fifth grade number sense
Lau vs. Nichols
comprehension skills lead to
50. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills
first and second grade place value
reading aloud promotes
Emergent Reader
Initial Blends