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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance






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






3. Choice/control theory






4. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies






5. The process of adapting a new culture;the new langage is seen as tied to the way the learners community and the target language community view one another.






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






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






8. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities






9. The history or study of words.






10. Congnitively demanding






11. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher.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






12. Amount of force a muscle can produce






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






14. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






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






16. The division of words into syllables [the minimal units of sequential speech sounds comprised of a vowel sound or a vowel - consonant combination - as /a/ - /ba/ - /ab/ - /bab/ - etc.]






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






18. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






19. Modeling






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






21. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






22. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






23. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






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






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






26. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






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






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






29. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






30. 'with - it - ness'






31. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies






32. 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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33. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






34. Study of social - political - and cultural values and their impact on scientific research and techological innovation as well as society - politics and culture as a whole






35. Identify words that don't belong in a set






36. Determines student's ability to learn in a certain situation






37. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






38. Experiential Learning






39. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






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






41. Recogize separate sounds in words






42. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






43. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process






44. 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






45. Funds of knowledge






46. Sound games - syllable clapping - rhyming songs - poems - jokes and silly rhythms - pictures in books






47. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard






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






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






50. Development of spoken language system