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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PRAXIS 5205 EXAM
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Question 1: Cooperative learning
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instructional strategy in which students are put into heterogeneous groups. It's perhaps one of the best researched innovations in recent times and can have dramatic student achievement effects when implemented properly.
Question 2: Examples of the concept of multiliteracies
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our personal, public & working lives are currently changing in some significant ways & these changes have the effect of transforming cultures & the ways we communicate. How literacy is taugt is changing.Modern literacy is reinforced by the media.
Question 3: Describe congruence between home and school socialization
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high achievers have a home enviro. congruent w/ a school enviro. High achievers learned how to independently & obediently complete tasks at home. This is important to school success as well.
Question 4: What are informal assessments?
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?Running Record ?Miscue Analysis ?Informal Reading Inventory ?Anecdotal notes ?observation ?portfolio ?conference ?rubric ?checklist ?writing sample
Question 5: Discuss the many places literacy may be learned
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reading bus stops & cereal boxes. Listening to family stories. Caregivers. Family. Engaging parents, participating in literacy activities together. Peers, community members.Question 6: 4 Strategies to increase students' awareness that print is speech written down.
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Language experience approach, shared writing, morning message, interactive writing
Question 7: Phonology
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system of phonemes or sounds in language.
Question 8: Discuss ways that schools can convey high expectations to students
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?Establish policies that emphasize how important it is to achieve academically.Question 9: Discuss social class & family background variables in emergent literacy
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Early readers tend to come from homews with more pencils, paper & books and that have mothers who read more often. Parental interest, positive attitudes, & modeling identified as major predictors of ac success despite social class or education level
Question 10: What are the 9 vowel digraphs?
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ea (sea), ee (feet), oa (boat), oo (moon) (book), aw (claw), ow (cow) (glow), ew (new), ou (cloud)
Question 11: Socratic Questioning
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at the heart of critical thinking skills. It is more than just a one-word answer or an agreement/disagreement from students. They force students to make assumptions, sort through relevant/irrelevant points & explain those points.
Question 12: Dialect
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language variation occurring in a certain region or social class. Differs from the standard language in pronunciation, grammar or vocabulary.Question 13: What is it important for students to differentiate between words and sentences?
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sentences are a bunch of words put together to form a thought or idea.
Question 14: What are some strategies for teaching letter recognition?
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? Matching upper case & lower case ? Use sand, etc for letter formation ? Letter bingo ? Letter Stamps ? Letter books ? flash cards
Question 15: Common prefixes
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a morpheme added at the beginning of a word.Question 16: Discuss the best ways to facilitate sensitivity in communicating with culturally diverse parents about the reading development of their child
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Use sensitivity by sending messages home in the parent's native language, using an appropriate reading level, and listening to the messages that are returned. Courtesy, sincerity & ample opportunity & time show concerns that can promote communications.
Question 17: Advantages of Rubrics
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? allow students to document the grade they earned not the grade they were given Question 18: Define the sociocultural theory approach to literacy and the genetic analysis aspect
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proper understanding of emergence of literacy has to take into account the broad cultural, social and historic factors that relate the the significance of reading & writing for human communication & cognition.
Question 19: Integration of technology to support literacy
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?Educational software ?word processing ?digital storytelling ?multimedia ?audio books ?educational blogs Question 20: How do common prefixes, suffixes and roots affect the meaning of English words?
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affixes affect the base's meaning.
Question 21: How is a reading specialist a resource in his or her school?
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?help staff develop knowledge of lit theory & instructions
Question 22: Vocabulary
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a set of words that a person or other entity knows that are part of language Question 23: Discuss some of the obstacles a reading specialist faces in positively modifying reading instruction
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deficiencies in finances or personnel, operating under system of mandates, theories, strategies & trends.