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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks
Deductive Reasoning
observation
Alphabetic Principle
blend
2. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.
decoding
Quadrant a and b
third and fourth grade place value
Neurolinguistics Theory (Lamendella)
3. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities
proactive
citizenship activities
onset and rime
inquiry
4. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials
health curriculum
Scaffolding
second level of physical education
Aids for ELL learners
5. Art
The Silent Way (teaching method)
Quadrant a
first and second grade place value
Mnemonic Device
6. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity
parallel process
proactive
diagnostic assessment
The Silent Way (teaching method)
7. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication
phoneme blending
Constructivism
Summative evaluation
Access
8. Begin working with decimals
five results of print awareness
inquiry - based
Sight Word
fifth grade place value
9. Direct instruction
Guided Writing
Lau vs. Nichols
Hunter - Madeline
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
10. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning
journal writing
problem solving teaching strategies
Pavlov - Ivan P.
locomotor skills
11. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.
authentic assessment
The Silent Way (teaching method)
Dewey - John (1859-1952)-
print awareness
12. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping
locomotor skill progression
phonetic
social structures activities
three categories of arts standards
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
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
word recognition
journal writing
Accretion Learning
14. The initial creative stage of writing - prior to drafting - in which the writer formulates ideas - gathers information - organizes or plans.
Canter - Lee
Quadrant a
Pre - writing
three types of essential lessons for social studies
15. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure
Input
purpose of teaching reading
models
key points in study of people
16. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events
instructional cycle for science instruction
assessment of locomotor skills
citizenship activities
transitional
17. Learning through experience
Quadrant b
skills needed to read
Dewey - John
CALP
18. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.
body composition
Equilibration
Echo Reading
Summative evaluation
19. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word
phoneme substitution
Diphthongs
phoneme addition
models
20. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors
social discipline
analytic phonics
journal writing
sociological theory
21. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.
comprehension strategy
Formative Evaluation
Reading Approach (teaching method)
Critical Thinking
22. Social or observational learning theory
Bandura - Albert
key points in study of people
Quadarant d
phonetic
23. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles
Equilibration
phonemic awareness fostered with
Krashen's - The Monitor
NCTM principles
24. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass
body composition
third and fourth grade place value
curriculum for reading include
Access
25. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency
kindergarten place value
Skinner - B.F.
four levels of physical education assessment
semiphonic spelling
26. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery
Gardner - Howard
forecasting
Pieget - Jean
four aspects of maps
27. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.
Intake
problem solving teaching strategies
story problem steps
Diphthongs
28. A strategy taught to help students use parts of words they have learned to attack words that are unfamiliar
Sight Word
analogy - based phonics
Onomatopoeia
print awareness
29. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance
anecdotal record
ten general standard strands
transmission
purpose of physical education
30. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness
Operant Conditioning -
oral language
factors that predict reading achievement
observation
31. Experiential Learning
cardiovascular efficiency
Rogers - Carl
Krashen's stages of second language acquisition
morpheme
32. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions
Pavlov - Ivan P.
utilization
four levels of physical education assessment
onset and rime
33. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons
Skinner - B.F.
enrichment strategies
Quadarant c
Learning Theories
34. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers
inquiry promotes
Semantics
Conventional Spelling
estimation instruction
35. 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
Emergent Reader
purpose of physical education
guided inquiry
dynamic assessment
36. The use of words peculiar to a particular language with a meaning that differs from typical syntactic patterns or from the literal meaning of its parts taken together. Some examples of idiomatic expressions would include - 'John kicked the bucket' me
Etymology
fraction manipulatives
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
Idioms
37. In the classroom the teacher and students take on roles similar to that of the parent and child respectively. Students must respond physically to the words of the teacher. The activity may be a simple game such as Simon Says or may involve more compl
phonemic awareness fostered with
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
phoneme identity
Moll - Luis
38. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process
analytic phonics
three concepts for physical education curriculum
Input
inquiry promotes
39. Integrates the variable for selected investigation
phonics instruction approach
inquiry promotes
question
economics curriculum goals
40. Knowing the basic concepts about written words
overall importance of the arts
print awareness
fraction manipulatives
enrichment strategies
41. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante
Lau vs. Nichols
print awareness
transitional
phonetic
42. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art
third grade number sense
objectives of arts education
Bandura - Albert
Etymology
43. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher
portfolios
Krashen
purpose of teaching reading
forecasting
44. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words
Kohlberg - Lawrence
approach spelling with
word recognition
social structures activities
45. Proficiency of the academic Language
Quadarant d
Round - robin Reading
CALP
Digraphs
46. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting
synthetic phonics
Quadarant c
process indicators
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
47. Congnitively demanding
Mnemonic Device
Skinner - B.F.
Quadarant c and d
flexibility
48. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development
word recognition
Skinner - B.F.
subtraction strategies
free discovery method
49. Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in unison to enhance oral reading fluency.
alphabetic principle
explicit comprehension instructoin
Skinner - B.F.
Choral Reading
50. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency
five results of print awareness
approach spelling with
Moll - Luis
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis