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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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






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






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






4. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






5. 'with - it - ness'






6. Challenged in math instruction - qualified teachers - primary standards - utilize and apply number - algebra - geometry - measurement and statistics concepts - activities related to math content - meaningful to students and integrated with other subj






7. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer






8. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






9. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum






10. 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.






11. Read aloud to class - student oral reading periods - shared reading - sustained silent reading






12. Discovery learning and constructivism






13. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph






14. An attachment to the end or beginningof base or root words. A generic term that describes prefixes and suffixes word parts 'fixed to' either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the ending of words (suffixes). For example - the word disrespectfulhas






15. Stages of cognitive development






16. How long can a muscle produce force






17. Language Acquisition hypothesis






18. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






19. Funds of knowledge






20. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines






21. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.






22. Language student's will emerge naturally whey they are given the opprotunity and need (motivation) to speak in a non - coercive/low anxiety situations.


23. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






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






25. Connectionism






26. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






27. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.






28. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria






29. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






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






31. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






32. 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






33. Theory of moral development






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






35. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






36. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






37. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency






38. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






39. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






40. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






41. Learners must be exposed to messages a little bit beyond proficiency


42. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations






43. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






44. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






45. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






46. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






47. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






48. 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






49. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t


50. Operant conditioning