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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






2. The initial creative stage of writing - prior to drafting - in which the writer formulates ideas - gathers information - organizes or plans.






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






4. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map






5. Body's ability to function efficiently and effectively






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






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






8. 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






9. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






10. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






11. Operant Conditioning






12. Mapping






13. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






14. Individual's basic understanding of numbers and operations and how to apply this knowledge to solve dilemmas and make decisions about mathematical problems and concepts






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






16. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication






17. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






22. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.






23. 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






24. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






25. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






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






27. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






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






29. The joining of two or more consonant sounds - represented by letters that begins a word without losing the identity of the sounds - such as /bl/ in black - the joining of the first consonant and vowel sounds in a word - such as /b/ and /a/ in baby. T






30. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole






31. 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.






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






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






34. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






35. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






36. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data






37. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






38. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






39. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games






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






41. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






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






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






44. Students need to be given time to correct themselves. Teachers can be optimal (users monitor when to focus on form) - overusers (refer to conscious grammer all the time) - underusers(do not refer to grammer at all)

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45. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






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






47. Congnitively demanding






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






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

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