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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.

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2. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






3. Steer children into the practice of becoming physically active throughout their lifetimes - improve academic achievement and ability to gain knowledge






4. Used for specific uses of the language. People who do not want to travel abroad - but just need to read it.






5. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






6. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






7. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines






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






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






10. Body's capacity to maintain vigorous physical activity for a period of time






11. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






12. Events are formed by human perceptions of places and regions - events of past provide insights into climate - resources - ecosystems - and migration of humans - why certain events happened a certain way






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






14. Begin working with decimals






15. Counting to 100






16. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language






17. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.






18. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






19. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






20. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






21. 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%






22. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






23. Influences from home - school - and community affect how well the student will learn






24. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






25. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






26. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction






27. 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






28. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






29. Classical conditioning






30. Construct understanding from the words






31. The study of the nature and use of symbols in a writing system; correct or standardized spelling according to established usage in a given language.






32. Operant conditioning






33. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive






34. Language Acquisition hypothesis






35. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.






36. Stages of the ethic of care






37. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






38. The structural (grammar) organization of English that regulates how words are combined into sentences. Word order is important in English and during the pre - school years - children learn to understand - ask questions - construct statements - and ma






39. Suggests that behavior is somewhat controlled by association and illustrated after a neutral stimulus accepts the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through the pairing of some unconditioned stimulus with the neutral stimulus.






40. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.






41. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






42. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






43. 'with - it - ness'






44. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






45. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery






46. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.






47. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






48. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable






49. Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in unison to enhance oral reading fluency.






50. Zone of proximal development