NBPTS generalist: early childhood
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Manipulatives (chips, Cuisenaire rods, dice, play money, etc) - ✔✔young children learn
primarily through visually inspecting, touching, holding, and manipulating concrete
objects.
math manipulative's are useful for - ✔✔students who learn with tactile or visual
learning styles
Inquiry-based learning - ✔✔Students develop hypotheses, collect information/data to
test the hypotheses and analyze information/data and formulate conclusions based on
the analyses. This is sometimes referred to as the scientific method.
inquiry learning - ✔✔young students should explore new materials to understand
purpose, use, and care before using them for structured activities
aesthetic experience - ✔✔perception through one's senses
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,process skills developed by preschool science programs - ✔✔observation, classification,
communication
activities for developing physical coordination - ✔✔hopping, balance on one foot,
kicking, throwing, catching balls, freeze dancing
Line (visual art) - ✔✔expand young children's symbol recognition, develop
comparison-making ability, facilitate shape recognition
affective learning experience - ✔✔support young children's emotional development,
including understanding and expressing their emotions
affective learning experience example - ✔✔Feelings and faces activities
phonological awareness - ✔✔the ability to reflect on and manipulate the sound
structure of spoken language
Phonemic Awareness - ✔✔The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual
sounds, phonemes, in oral language.
Alphabetic Principle - ✔✔ABILITY TO CONNECT LETTERS WITH SOUNDS, AND TO
CREATE WORDS BASED ON THESE ASSOCIATIONS.
phonological awareness is developed through - ✔✔direct training
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness - ✔✔Two aspects of oral language development
that are important for developing word analysis skills and reading
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, Examples of phonological awareness skills - ✔✔-rhyming words
-segmenting words, syllables and phonemes
-word, syllable, and phoneme counting
-matching similar sounds
-substitute sounds in words to create other words
-understand what happens when you lose a sound or gain one in a word
benefits of phonological and phonemic awareness instruction - ✔✔improves
understanding of sound to letter relationships and their ability to recognize common
spelling units found in words
Oral Language Development - ✔✔Use these activities to help facilitate: whole group,
small group, 1:1, discussions, read alouds, echo readings, songs, nursery rhymes, role
play, drama, finger plays
Phonology - ✔✔combinations of speech sounds within a given language
Morphology - ✔✔smallest structure/grammatical units that convey meaning
Semantics - ✔✔the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words,
and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning
Syntax - ✔✔Sentence structure
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Manipulatives (chips, Cuisenaire rods, dice, play money, etc) - ✔✔young children learn
primarily through visually inspecting, touching, holding, and manipulating concrete
objects.
math manipulative's are useful for - ✔✔students who learn with tactile or visual
learning styles
Inquiry-based learning - ✔✔Students develop hypotheses, collect information/data to
test the hypotheses and analyze information/data and formulate conclusions based on
the analyses. This is sometimes referred to as the scientific method.
inquiry learning - ✔✔young students should explore new materials to understand
purpose, use, and care before using them for structured activities
aesthetic experience - ✔✔perception through one's senses
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,process skills developed by preschool science programs - ✔✔observation, classification,
communication
activities for developing physical coordination - ✔✔hopping, balance on one foot,
kicking, throwing, catching balls, freeze dancing
Line (visual art) - ✔✔expand young children's symbol recognition, develop
comparison-making ability, facilitate shape recognition
affective learning experience - ✔✔support young children's emotional development,
including understanding and expressing their emotions
affective learning experience example - ✔✔Feelings and faces activities
phonological awareness - ✔✔the ability to reflect on and manipulate the sound
structure of spoken language
Phonemic Awareness - ✔✔The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual
sounds, phonemes, in oral language.
Alphabetic Principle - ✔✔ABILITY TO CONNECT LETTERS WITH SOUNDS, AND TO
CREATE WORDS BASED ON THESE ASSOCIATIONS.
phonological awareness is developed through - ✔✔direct training
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness - ✔✔Two aspects of oral language development
that are important for developing word analysis skills and reading
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, Examples of phonological awareness skills - ✔✔-rhyming words
-segmenting words, syllables and phonemes
-word, syllable, and phoneme counting
-matching similar sounds
-substitute sounds in words to create other words
-understand what happens when you lose a sound or gain one in a word
benefits of phonological and phonemic awareness instruction - ✔✔improves
understanding of sound to letter relationships and their ability to recognize common
spelling units found in words
Oral Language Development - ✔✔Use these activities to help facilitate: whole group,
small group, 1:1, discussions, read alouds, echo readings, songs, nursery rhymes, role
play, drama, finger plays
Phonology - ✔✔combinations of speech sounds within a given language
Morphology - ✔✔smallest structure/grammatical units that convey meaning
Semantics - ✔✔the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words,
and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning
Syntax - ✔✔Sentence structure
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