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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.
fourth and fifth grade number sense
Direct Approach (teaching method)
Hidalgo - Nitza
Phonogram
2. Word forms and another component of syntax. Morphemes are also the smallest meaningful units in language and word parts that could also change the meaning of a word.
Morphemes
factors that predict reading achievement
body management
Rime
3. Refined mastery of multiplication and division
Montessori - Maria
fourth and fifth grade number sense
criterion - referenced test
precontrol
4. A strategy taught to help students use parts of words they have learned to attack words that are unfamiliar
phonological awareness
muscular endurance
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
analogy - based phonics
5. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development
Whole Language
Conventional Spelling
psychology activities
basic concepts in physical education
6. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.
Diphthongs
CALLA
economics skills
Etymology
7. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue
multiplication strategies
Quadarant d
five spelling stages
reactive
8. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension
types of number activities from 10-20
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
reading instruction should include
explicit comprehension instructoin
9. Topographical - projective - Euclidian
citizenship curriculum
three stages of map reading
Erikson - Erik
purpose of teaching reading
10. Credited with coining the Multiple Intelligences Theory which is a pluralized way of understanding the intellect. Researchers believe that each person's level of intelligence is made up of autonomous faculties that can work individually or in concert
performance tasks
Gardner - Howard
Rime
Experiential Learning
11. Writing
Quadarant d
Phonics
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
phonemic awareness
12. 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
first and second grade place value
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
gain print knowledge
dynamic assessment
13. Constructivist theory is a general framework for instruction based upon the study of cognition. Constructivism is based on the belief that children construct meaning from their experiences - and are not just passive receivers of information. Much of
purpose of physical education
Constructivism
synthetic phonics
Quadarant d
14. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education
economics activities
skills needed to decode
Strategies for teaching
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
15. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context
Quadarant d
comprehension strategy
Output
proficiency
16. 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
purpose of teaching reading
locomotor skills
Experiential Learning
Whole Language
17. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word
Thorndike - Edward
phoneme blending
Cognitive Coaching
orthographic knowledge
18. Reading
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
fourth and fifth grade number sense
Quadarant d
phonemic awareness
19. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning
instructional approaches for reading
Portfolio Assessment
strategies to help map reading
second level of physical education
20. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping
Accretion Learning
locomotor skill progression
Quadrant a
Intake
21. Begin working with decimals
Intake
onset and rime
Montessori - Maria
fifth grade place value
22. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid
journal writing
psychology activities
linguistic awareness
four aspects of maps
23. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.
phonological awareness
five spelling stages
question
Alphabetic Principle
24. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle
skills needed to decode
word recognition
explicit comprehension instructoin
multiplication strategies
25. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues
synthetic phonics
phonics instruction approach
fraction instruction
citizenship curriculum
26. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words
three categories of arts standards
Krashen's Input Hypothesis
approach spelling with
third grade number sense
27. Music
Quadrant a
Portfolio Assessment
Montessori - Maria
direct daily measurement
28. Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in unison to enhance oral reading fluency.
physical fitness
Choral Reading
kindergarten place value
objectives of arts education
29. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises
phonics instruction
Round - robin Reading
third level of physical education
addition strategies
30. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions
muscular strength
semiphonic spelling
criterion - referenced test
Alphabetic Principle
31. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment
journal writing
estimation instruction
ecological - based assessment
Classical Conditioning
32. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
Cooperative Learning
curriculum plan for political science
Phonics
33. Word recognition - comprehension - and fluency
basic concepts in physical education
inquiry promotes
phonics and spelling
skills needed to read
34. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen
transformation
activities to gain language knowledge
models
Constructivism
35. Operant conditioning
Skinner - B.F.
Emergent Reader
types of number relationships for 1-10
free discovery method
36. A strategy where the teacher reads a line or passage with good expression - and calls on students to read it back. This is a good technique to use with Emergent Readers to help them build reading fluency.
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
primary components of learning geography
Echo Reading
Maslow - Abraham
37. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading
objectives of arts education
geography areas of knowledge
problem solving teaching strategies
intrinsic phonics
38. 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
three stages of map reading
precontrol
political science curriculum goals
Affixes
39. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure
citizenship curriculum
Krashen's Acquisition vs. Learning
purpose of teaching reading
skills of proficiency of inquiry method
40. 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.
physical and human systems curriculum goals
CALP
physical fitness
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
41. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
control
geography areas of knowledge
Quadarant d
42. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies
curriculum for reading include
Whole Language
phoneme blending
phonetic
43. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers
CALP
Deductive Reasoning
first grade number sense
print awareness
44. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words
onset - rime phonics
phonological awareness
Cognitive Coaching
process indicators
45. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable
focus of physical education
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
blend
curriculum for reading include
46. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning
problem solving teaching strategies
Krashen
Bandura - Albert
core beliefs of mathematics education
47. Used for specific uses of the language. People who do not want to travel abroad - but just need to read it.
Summative evaluation
Classical Conditioning
decoding
Reading Approach (teaching method)
48. Zone of proximal development
factors that predict reading achievement
indicators of attitude about science
sociological theory
Vygotsky - Lev
49. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive
guided inquiry
Lau vs. Nichols
Krashen
domains of learning
50. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words
dynamic assessment
embedded phonics
Authentic Assessment
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