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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence
economics activities
precommunicative spelling
phonetic
story problem steps
2. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling
Phonogram
developmental theory
anthropology activities
Quadarant c
3. Language Acquisition hypothesis
Krashen
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
third and fourth grade place value
phonemic awareness fostered with
4. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness
Phonics
factors that predict reading achievement
alternative assessment
three stages of map reading
5. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher
fifth grade place value
portfolios
intrinsic phonics
phonics instruction
6. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.
purpose of physical education
precommunicative spelling
Digraphs
phoneme categorization
7. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills
citizenship curriculum
reading aloud promotes
CALLA
three types of essential lessons for social studies
8. A theory advanced by George A. Miller who stressed the idea that short - term memory could only hold 5-9 chunks of information (seven plus or minus two). The term chunk represents any meaningful unit (i.e. - digits - words - pictures - etc.). The con
COPEC guidelines for physical education
Information Processing
fraction instruction
embedded phonics
9. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts
phoneme addition
story problem steps
addition strategies
phoneme isolation
10. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities
domains of learning
Emergence Learning
second level of physical education
portfolios
11. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions
Reflective Teaching
Krashen
criterion - referenced test
transformation
12. Discrepant event - question - inquiry
assessments for reading
instructional cycle for science instruction
unifying processes of science
Reading Approach (teaching method)
13. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.
Guided Reading
reading instruction should include
phonemic awareness fostered with
focus of physical education
14. Identify words that don't belong in a set
ten general standard strands
phoneme categorization
COPEC guidelines for physical education
comprehension strategy
15. Reading
Quadarant d
orthographic knowledge
fluency
third grade number sense
16. Gradually - experiment with numbers - visualize numbers - use numbers - understand number relationships
Access
Direct Approach (teaching method)
how to develop number sense
skills critical to learning to read and write
17. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach
Acquisition
Guided Reading
CALLA
Initial Blends
18. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .
sociological theory
fifth grade place value
reading aloud promotes
Homographs
19. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.
decoding
onset - rime phonics
sociological theory
Summative evaluation
20. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition
muscular strength
Gardner - Howard
kindergarten place value
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
21. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students
utilization
Pavlov - Ivan
Maslow - Abraham
discrepant event
22. Hierarchy of needs
precommunicative spelling
Maslow - Abraham
Accretion Learning
first level of physical education
23. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct
Krashen
first level of physical education
five spelling stages
Quadarant d
24. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions
phonics instruction
six traits approach
Echo Reading
Quadarant d
25. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies
Quadarant b and d
performance tasks
curriculum for reading include
addition strategies
26. Multiplication and beginning division
embedded phonics
third grade number sense
curriculum for reading include
reading aloud promotes
27. Writing
phonics instruction approach
Pieget - Jean
Quadarant d
comprehension strategy
28. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.
three stages of map reading
Intake
Acquisition
Mnemonic Device
29. Refined mastery of multiplication and division
Krashen
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model
Affixes
fourth and fifth grade number sense
30. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction
skills needed to decode
alphabetic principle
COPEC guidelines for physical education
diagnostic assessment
31. 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.
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
economics activities
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
alternative assessment
32. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen
Orthography
citizenship curriculum
skills needed to decode
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
33. Need to know o be functionsl
Functional - notional Approach
parallel process
phonics instruction
Quadrant a
34. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
Hidalgo - Nitza
approach spelling with
35. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations
blend
inquiry - based
focus of elementary math curriculum
inquiry promotes
36. 30-60 minutes of physical activities on all days - 60 minutes of free play per day - daily activities with 10-15 minutes of moderate action
skills critical to learning to read and write
cardiovascular efficiency
six traits approach
COPEC guidelines for physical education
37. 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
number sense
third level of physical education
Hidalgo - Nitza
skills needed to read
38. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols
key points in study of people
Dewey - John
orthographic knowledge
third and fourth grade place value
39. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group
Behaviorism
norm - referenced test
inquiry
first level of physical education
40. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language
analogy - based phonics
focus of elementary math curriculum
poetry instruction helps
portfolios
41. Role playing
third level of physical education
portfolios
Quadarant c
inquiry promotes
42. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them
direct daily measurement
geography areas of knowledge
phoneme segmentation
criterion - referenced test
43. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process
Input
five levels of phonological awareness
CALLA
focus of physical education
44. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication
three concepts for physical education curriculum
reactive
sociology activities
reading aloud promotes
45. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue
Constructivism
Quadarant d
reactive
Reflective Teaching
46. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing
literature based reading approach
demonstration
assessment of locomotor skills
Conventional Spelling
47. Development of spoken language system
Quadarant d
Dewey - John
oral language
The Grammar - translation Approach (teaching method)
48. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.
five results of print awareness
poetry instruction helps
Assimilation
Dewey - John (1859-1952)-
49. Understanding that sounds are related to written words
alternative assessment
phoneme deletion
reading instruction should include
phonological awareness
50. Theory of moral development
comprehension skills lead to
transitional
Lau vs. Nichols
Kohlberg - Lawrence