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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.
Guided Writing
Phoneme
second level of physical education
constructivism
2. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines
multiplication strategies
phoneme deletion
decoding skills
Classical Conditioning
3. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading
demonstration
intrinsic phonics
Rime
skills needed to decode
4. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.
three categories of arts standards
anthropology activities
Reflective Teaching
story problem steps
5. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an
sociology activities
Output
Initial Blends
Experiential Learning
6. Word forms and another component of syntax. Morphemes are also the smallest meaningful units in language and word parts that could also change the meaning of a word.
Morphemes
Initial Blends
citizenship curriculum
six traits approach
7. The smallest unit of language that has meaning and may be a part of a word
phonics and spelling
reading aloud promotes
first and second grade place value
morpheme
8. Credited with coining the Multiple Intelligences Theory which is a pluralized way of understanding the intellect. Researchers believe that each person's level of intelligence is made up of autonomous faculties that can work individually or in concert
Gardner - Howard
political science curriculum goals
Lau vs. Nichols
models
9. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts
transitional
phonetic
types of number relationships for 1-10
addition strategies
10. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension
Cognitive Coaching
reading instruction should include
skills needed to read
flexibility
11. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development
unifying processes of science
Montessori - Maria
word recognition
instructional approaches for reading
12. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises
third level of physical education
control
Skinner - B.F.
assessment of locomotor skills
13. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions
proficiency
phonics
inquiry
six traits approach
14. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
comprehension
transformation
phoneme addition
15. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping
locomotor skill progression
language skills are developed
blend
phonemic awareness fostered with
16. The thought processes students are able to rely on relative to problem solving. Here - students use creativity - analysis - and logic regarding their ability to analyze facts - make comparisons - generate ideas - defend view points - draw inferences
multiplication strategies
Critical Thinking
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
concepts and skills for social studies
17. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.
fraction instruction
people - places and regions curriculum goals
activities to gain language knowledge
Dewey - John (1859-1952)-
18. Context reduced
geography areas of knowledge
number sense
Quadarant b and d
political science curriculum goals
19. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines
Diphthongs
three types of essential lessons for social studies
Skinner - B.F.
focus of physical education
20. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives
core beliefs of mathematics education
Information Processing
fraction teaching strategies
kindergarten place value
21. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data
phonics instruction approach
things to include when completing tasks on probability and statistics
Quadarant c
people - places and regions curriculum goals
22. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect
synthetic phonics
comprehension skills lead to
Choral Reading
five levels of phonological awareness
23. 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
Affixes
ecological theory
Bruner - Jerome
physical and human systems curriculum goals
24. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.
five spelling stages
Moll - Luis
purpose of physical education
Whole Language
25. Motivation is the primary determinant of L2 proficiency;The more motivated you are the better you will perform
Gardner - Howard
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
Reflective Teaching
fraction manipulatives
26. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships
body management
Behaviorism
primary components of learning geography
phonics instruction
27. 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
objectives of arts education
flexibility
anthropology activities
core beliefs of mathematics education
28. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.
Formative Evaluation
fraction instruction
Onomatopoeia
Quadarant d
29. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery
laboratory - experimentation
forecasting
linguistic awareness
ten general standard strands
30. Choice/control theory
CALLA
Glasser - William
explicit comprehension instructoin
norm - referenced test
31. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid
Emergent Reader
four aspects of maps
objectives of arts education
analogy - based phonics
32. Construct understanding from the words
Initial Blends
Hunter - Madeline
phonics and spelling
comprehension
33. Influences from home - school - and community affect how well the student will learn
phoneme deletion
ecological theory
Intake
fourth level of physical education
34. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols
phonemic awareness fostered with
question
Accommmodation Theory (Giles)
orthographic knowledge
35. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.
indicators of attitude about science
Schemata - a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are three types of schemata's - content - language - and textual. 1.) Content Schemata
journal writing
Assimilation
36. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction
Morphemes
diagnostic assessment
alternative assessment
Access
37. Need to know o be functionsl
Functional - notional Approach
fifth grade place value
basic concepts in physical education
Guided Reading
38. Connectionism
models
Thorndike - Edward
problem solving teaching strategies
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
39. Blending sounds in a word to say the word
phonological awareness
phonemic awareness
factors that predict reading achievement
Etymology
40. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning
economics skills
Aids for ELL learners
comprehension skills lead to
problem solving teaching strategies
41. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.
Deductive Reasoning
alphabetic principle
Direct Approach (teaching method)
portfolios
42. Understanding that sounds are related to written words
phonological awareness
Skinner - B.F.
focus of elementary math curriculum
Quadarant c
43. 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.
third and fourth grade place value
Quadarant d
Classical Conditioning
Vygotsky - Lev
44. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities
phoneme deletion
first level of physical education
Quadarant c
locomotor skill progression
45. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals
standards - based assessment
expository method
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
five levels of phonological awareness
46. 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.
five spelling stages
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
Emergent Reader
focus of elementary math curriculum
47. Follow the child
Accretion Learning
Montessori - Maria
economics skills
political science curriculum goals
48. Development of spoken language system
Scaffolding
oral language
curriculum for reading include
economics skills
49. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions
Orthography
comprehension strategy
curriculum for reading include
people - places and regions curriculum goals
50. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map
utilization
purpose of teaching reading
strategies to help map reading
analogy - based phonics