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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Assertive discipline
Alphabetic Principle
control
print awareness
Canter - Lee
2. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.
Etymology
Semantics
Acquisition
forecasting
3. Role playing
Acquisition
narrative texts include
Quadarant c
primary components of learning geography
4. Topographical - projective - Euclidian
Functional - notional Approach
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
three stages of map reading
COPEC guidelines for physical education
5. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing
fraction teaching strategies
Guided Writing
journal writing
fluency
6. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word
Semantics
phoneme blending
overall importance of the arts
print awareness
7. 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
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
synthetic phonics
Gardner - Howard
Round - robin Reading
8. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students
third and fourth grade place value
discrepant event
economics activities
ways to encourage citizenship
9. Reading
literature based reading approach
Quadarant d
journal writing
reactive
10. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated
control
Glasser - William
third grade number sense
phonemic awareness fostered with
11. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
assessments for reading
Kounin - Jacob
Hidalgo - Nitza
12. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them
phoneme segmentation
geography curriculum goals
Mnemonic Device
five results of print awareness
13. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.
reactive
ten general standard strands
Cognitive Coaching
Digraphs
14. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making
developmental theory
Idioms
concepts and skills for social studies
Quadrant a
15. A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on observable behaviors and ignores psychological activities.
Learning Theories
Behaviorism
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
locomotor skill progression
16. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language
curriculum - based measure
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
three types of essential lessons for social studies
Variable Competence Model (widdowson and ellis)
17. 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
morpheme
CALLA
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
key points in study of people
18. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.
Quadarant d
Equilibration
Mastery Learning
Pavlov - Ivan
19. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language
Gilligan - Carol
poetry instruction helps
Erikson - Erik
cardiovascular efficiency
20. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass
body composition
Cooperative Learning
Kohlberg - Lawrence
language skills are developed
21. Eight stages of human development
Guided Writing
comprehension skills lead to
focus of elementary math curriculum
Erikson - Erik
22. Multiple intelligences
citizenship curriculum
five levels of phonological awareness
Gardner - Howard
focus of physical education
23. 'if so - how?' In short - metacognition is simply the process of 'thinking about thinking.' In fact - good readers use metacognition before they read anythingin order to help them clarify their purpose for reading and to preview the text.
Direct Approach (teaching method)
direct daily measurement
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
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
24. Amount of force a muscle can produce
Sight Word
muscular strength
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
focus of elementary math curriculum
25. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable
Quadrant a
blend
body composition
Initial Blends
26. Congitively undemanding
Critical Thinking
Syntactic System
number sense
Quadrant a and b
27. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.
Alphabetic Principle
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
body composition
ways to encourage citizenship
28. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context
Krashen's Natural Approach
four aspects of maps
comprehension strategy
phoneme isolation
29. Region/area - length - set
fraction manipulatives
curriculum plan for political science
five results of print awareness
gain print knowledge
30. 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
Quadrant a
Hunter - Madeline
Intake
Equilibration
31. Operant conditioning
Skinner - B.F.
Information Processing
inquiry
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
32. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations
Skinner - B.F.
Vygotsky - Lev
Strategies for teaching
estimation instruction
33. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer
story problem steps
decoding skills
sociology activities
second level of physical education
34. 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
CALLA
journal writing
performance tasks
economics curriculum goals
35. S manifested via structuring - patterning - and constructing meaning - understanding - and ideas that did not exist initially. This process involves insight - reflection - creative expression - and/or group interactions. This method of learning is de
Glasser - William
focus of elementary math curriculum
Lau Plan
Emergence Learning
36. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension
Krashen's - The Monitor
Digraphs
focus of physical education
reading instruction should include
37. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles
Etymology
phonemic awareness fostered with
estimation instruction
alternative assessment
38. Found that although environment causes behavior - behavior also causes environment as well. Bandura labeled this concept reciprocal determinism -'both the world the individual's behavior 'cause' affect each other. Bandura is considered a 'father' of
Onomatopoeia
precontrol
Bandura - Albert
Skinner - B.F.
39. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem
NCTM principles
Choral Reading
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
phonics instruction approach
40. Body's capacity to maintain vigorous physical activity for a period of time
cardiovascular efficiency
ten general standard strands
constructivism
curriculum for reading include
41. Funds of knowledge
skills critical to learning to read and write
things to include when completing tasks on probability and statistics
Quadarant d
Moll - Luis
42. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions
Montessori - Maria
Scaffolding
Dewey - John
people - places and regions curriculum goals
43. Discrepant event - question - inquiry
instructional cycle for science instruction
Classical Conditioning
purpose of teaching reading
second grade number sense
44. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.
assessment of locomotor skills
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
Semantics
45. Congnitively demanding
six traits approach
Pre - writing
Quadarant c and d
language skills are developed
46. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development
ten general standard strands
word recognition
assessment of locomotor skills
Bandura - Albert
47. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.
Intake
social structures activities
phonics instruction
Dewey - John
48. Provide lecture - deliver demonstrations - impart explanations of science topics
Accretion Learning
free discovery method
Ausubel - David
expository method
49. Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness - phonics instruction in context - learn when address reading and writing activities
phonics instruction approach
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
Input
Conventional Spelling
50. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.
enrichment strategies
Accretion Learning
Mnemonic Device
health curriculum