ILTS 206 Early Childhood Education
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1. In a kindergarten classroom, the teacher has set out several wordless books
for the children to look at. Periodically, she asks one of her children to
"read" the book to her. Asking the children to participate in this activity will
be most effective as a way to - ANSWER develop the children's oral
language skills.
2. A 2 year old boy is sitting in a high chair. As he says "swing" to his
caregiver, he turns and points toward the door. When the caregiver picks up
the boy and carries him to the door, he points to a swingset in the yard. The
caregiver opens the door and puts the boy down, and he walks eagerly
toward the swingset.
In this exchange with his caregiver, the boy has conveyed the meaning by
using what? - ANSWER holophrase
3. While preparing her preschool classroom for the 1st day of school, a teacher
creates a classroom grocery store in the dramatic play area. What is the
primary benefit of this classroom design? - ANSWER Experience with print
in their environment will help children develop an understanding of the
purpose and functions of print
4. What book topics would most likely be included in the genre of modern
fantasy for early elementary children? - ANSWER a boy who finds a
talking pencil
,5. A preschool teacher hands a 4 year old child an open book and says to the
child, "Please show me where to start reading" By making this request, the
teacher is most likely to gather information about the student's skills in what
areas? - ANSWER directionality of print
6. A 1st grade student is reading a new text aloud to his teacher. The text reads,
It is very cold and snowing hard. Can you tell what the season is? Oh yes, it
is winter. The child says window instead of the word winter. The teacher
repeats what the child read aloud, as he said it, then asks if this makes sense.
The teacher is encouraging the child to use what cueing system? -
ANSWER semantic
7. Graphophonic - ANSWER Does it look right? What letters and words look
like
8. Semantics - ANSWER Does it make sense? ( In reading)
9. Syntactic - ANSWER Structure. Does it sound right? (In reading)
10.A 2nd grade teacher reads aloud to the class often, from a wide variety of
genres and with great expression. This activity primarily helps students to -
ANSWER learn what fluent reading sounds like
11.What strategy could a teacher use most effectively to help emergent and
early readers better understand and use semantic clues? - ANSWER
covering up various words in a big book text and having students use
meaning to guess the hidden words
12.A 1st grade teacher stocks the classroom library with a variety of reading
materials (magazines, alphabet books, illustrated encyclopedias) and for
, many reading levels. This strategy will support students' reading
development primarily because it encourages - ANSWER independent
reading
13.A teacher reading a big book to her class covers up a word at the end of a
sentence and asks the students to predict what the word will be. What skills
does this strategy address? - ANSWER contextual word identification
14.a 1st grade teacher shares an activity with emergent readers in the class
called "Hink Pinks" In this activity, the children come up with rhyming pairs
of words such as goat-boat, pat-cat, and map-tap. The children use letter and
word-family cards to form the pairs and then read each pair aloud. This
activity will most likely promote the children's ability to - ANSWER
Substitute onsets with common rimes
15.holophrase - ANSWER use of a single word
16.recursion - ANSWER repeating items in a self-similar way
17.overextension - ANSWER "doggie" is referred to all 4 legged animals and
"daddy" is referred to all men
18.underextension - ANSWER happens very early in language development
around 18 months. The child knows the word "dog" but only applies it to his
dog rather than all the other dogs he encounters
19.A 2 year old boy is sitting in a high chair. As he says "swing" to his
caregiver, he turns and points toward the door. When the caregiver picks up
the boy and carries him to the door, he points to a swingset in the yard. The
, caregiver opens the door and puts the boy down, and he walks eagerly
toward the swingset.
20.In this situation, the caregiver could best promote the boy's communication
and language development by - ANSWER engaging him in conversation
about the swing
21.The families of young children who are learning English as a new language
are significantly more likely to collaborate with teachers when they -
ANSWER have on-going opportunities to provide input to their child's
education
22.When learning English, what language skills do young children from diverse
language backgrounds typically master first? - ANSWER speaking with
other children while playing
23.A 1st grade teacher has an English Language Learner in her class whose
home language is Russian. The teacher makes it a practice to have the class
count objects and say the names of the months and days of the week in
Russian. This practice is most likely to promote - ANSWER Respect for
and knowledge of the ELL's home language among all students
24.When ELLs reach the early production stage of the 2nd language
acquisition, they are typically most comfortable performing what language
tasks? - ANSWER Speaking in single words or 2 word phrases
25.A 3 year old speaks both English and Spanish. In casual conversation with
the teacher, her father expresses mild concern that his daughter sometimes
mixes up vocabulary between languages. What would be the teacher's best
response to the father? - ANSWER reassuring him that bilingual children
often shift between languages at this age
Actual Exam Practice Questions with
Verified Results | Latest Edition
1. In a kindergarten classroom, the teacher has set out several wordless books
for the children to look at. Periodically, she asks one of her children to
"read" the book to her. Asking the children to participate in this activity will
be most effective as a way to - ANSWER develop the children's oral
language skills.
2. A 2 year old boy is sitting in a high chair. As he says "swing" to his
caregiver, he turns and points toward the door. When the caregiver picks up
the boy and carries him to the door, he points to a swingset in the yard. The
caregiver opens the door and puts the boy down, and he walks eagerly
toward the swingset.
In this exchange with his caregiver, the boy has conveyed the meaning by
using what? - ANSWER holophrase
3. While preparing her preschool classroom for the 1st day of school, a teacher
creates a classroom grocery store in the dramatic play area. What is the
primary benefit of this classroom design? - ANSWER Experience with print
in their environment will help children develop an understanding of the
purpose and functions of print
4. What book topics would most likely be included in the genre of modern
fantasy for early elementary children? - ANSWER a boy who finds a
talking pencil
,5. A preschool teacher hands a 4 year old child an open book and says to the
child, "Please show me where to start reading" By making this request, the
teacher is most likely to gather information about the student's skills in what
areas? - ANSWER directionality of print
6. A 1st grade student is reading a new text aloud to his teacher. The text reads,
It is very cold and snowing hard. Can you tell what the season is? Oh yes, it
is winter. The child says window instead of the word winter. The teacher
repeats what the child read aloud, as he said it, then asks if this makes sense.
The teacher is encouraging the child to use what cueing system? -
ANSWER semantic
7. Graphophonic - ANSWER Does it look right? What letters and words look
like
8. Semantics - ANSWER Does it make sense? ( In reading)
9. Syntactic - ANSWER Structure. Does it sound right? (In reading)
10.A 2nd grade teacher reads aloud to the class often, from a wide variety of
genres and with great expression. This activity primarily helps students to -
ANSWER learn what fluent reading sounds like
11.What strategy could a teacher use most effectively to help emergent and
early readers better understand and use semantic clues? - ANSWER
covering up various words in a big book text and having students use
meaning to guess the hidden words
12.A 1st grade teacher stocks the classroom library with a variety of reading
materials (magazines, alphabet books, illustrated encyclopedias) and for
, many reading levels. This strategy will support students' reading
development primarily because it encourages - ANSWER independent
reading
13.A teacher reading a big book to her class covers up a word at the end of a
sentence and asks the students to predict what the word will be. What skills
does this strategy address? - ANSWER contextual word identification
14.a 1st grade teacher shares an activity with emergent readers in the class
called "Hink Pinks" In this activity, the children come up with rhyming pairs
of words such as goat-boat, pat-cat, and map-tap. The children use letter and
word-family cards to form the pairs and then read each pair aloud. This
activity will most likely promote the children's ability to - ANSWER
Substitute onsets with common rimes
15.holophrase - ANSWER use of a single word
16.recursion - ANSWER repeating items in a self-similar way
17.overextension - ANSWER "doggie" is referred to all 4 legged animals and
"daddy" is referred to all men
18.underextension - ANSWER happens very early in language development
around 18 months. The child knows the word "dog" but only applies it to his
dog rather than all the other dogs he encounters
19.A 2 year old boy is sitting in a high chair. As he says "swing" to his
caregiver, he turns and points toward the door. When the caregiver picks up
the boy and carries him to the door, he points to a swingset in the yard. The
, caregiver opens the door and puts the boy down, and he walks eagerly
toward the swingset.
20.In this situation, the caregiver could best promote the boy's communication
and language development by - ANSWER engaging him in conversation
about the swing
21.The families of young children who are learning English as a new language
are significantly more likely to collaborate with teachers when they -
ANSWER have on-going opportunities to provide input to their child's
education
22.When learning English, what language skills do young children from diverse
language backgrounds typically master first? - ANSWER speaking with
other children while playing
23.A 1st grade teacher has an English Language Learner in her class whose
home language is Russian. The teacher makes it a practice to have the class
count objects and say the names of the months and days of the week in
Russian. This practice is most likely to promote - ANSWER Respect for
and knowledge of the ELL's home language among all students
24.When ELLs reach the early production stage of the 2nd language
acquisition, they are typically most comfortable performing what language
tasks? - ANSWER Speaking in single words or 2 word phrases
25.A 3 year old speaks both English and Spanish. In casual conversation with
the teacher, her father expresses mild concern that his daughter sometimes
mixes up vocabulary between languages. What would be the teacher's best
response to the father? - ANSWER reassuring him that bilingual children
often shift between languages at this age
