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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






2. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic






3. Region/area - length - set






4. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues






5. 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






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






7. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations






8. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.






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






10. 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.






11. Operant Conditioning






12. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






13. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






14. Eight stages of human development






15. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction






16. Positive initial experiences - moved from concrete to symbolic very slowly






17. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






18. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation






19. 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.






20. Complete a problem or project with an explanation for an answer






21. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher






22. Operant conditioning






23. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions






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






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






26. A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on observable behaviors and ignores psychological activities.






27. 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






28. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






29. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






30. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.






31. 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






32. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou






33. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






34. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons






35. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






36. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance






37. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.

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38. Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness - phonics instruction in context - learn when address reading and writing activities






39. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






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

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41. 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






42. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition






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






44. Three levels of culture






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






46. Body's ability to function efficiently and effectively






47. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin






48. 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






49. Multiple intelligences






50. Stages of cognitive development