OAE 055 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a) How do children develop phonological awareness?
b) What are some activities to develop it?
c) What is phonological awareness focused on for young children?
d) Why is it important? - Answers :a) Through exposure to language and through direct
training, both of which are provided by the adults around them and in their lives.
b) Direct activities include clapping sounds, reading poems, singing nursery rhymes,
grouping by beginning sounds.
c) Phonological awareness = speech sounds
d) Phonological awareness is the most predictive of a child's long-term literary
performance
Should you use analogies or metaphors with young children? - Answers :The ability to
understand the abstraction provided in metaphors isn't available until later in life
What is the earliest phonological feature to be independently recognizable in a typically
developing child? - Answers :rhyming
Are linear, one-way questions or more open-ended questions best for language
development? - Answers :Asking children more open-ended questions
Early production stage of language acquisition - Answers :learners produce single-word
and two- to three-word phrases and can respond to questions and statements
Articulation disorder - Answers :Difficulty producing speech sounds or speech sound
sequences
Which of these is an indication that a child has problems with reading comprehension:
A. The child wonders about why the characters in a story did some things
B. The child can tell how a story they read ended but can't explain why
C. The child makes predictions about what will happen next in a narrative
D. The child associates things in the reading with things in their own life - Answers :The
child can tell how a story they read ended but can't explain why
Dyslexic students and objective tests - Answers :Dyslexic students perform worse on
objectives tests than their IQ and knowledge
Concerning spelling, what statement is correct about how children learn:
A. Children must be taught spelling patterns as they will not learn them incidentally
B. Children who know basic spelling rules can deduce spellings for words they hear
C. Children may be able to spell words but this does not mean they can read them
,D. Children's reading and writing skills promote spelling but the reverse is not true -
Answers :Children who know basic spelling rules can deduce spellings for words they
hear
According to linguists what do invented spellings by young children best signify? -
Answers :Inventing spellings for words is evidence of one's comprehension
In which stage of writing development do children understand that written forms
symbolize meanings:
A. Scribbling and drawing
B. Letters
C. Letters and spaces
D. Letter like forms and shapes - Answers :D. Letter like forms and shapes
POWER instructional strategy - Answers :Planning -> Organizing -> Writing -> Editing -
> Rewriting
Used for teaching students the writing process
In selecting literature for children the most important fist step a teacher should perform
is to evaluate - Answers :class composition and preferences
Which of the following correctly describes a characteristic of students with effective
problem solving skills:
A. Students develop hypotheses via repeated trial and error tests
B. Students have developed demonstrated skills for self regulation
C. Students are cautious in solving problems and avoid taking a risk
D. Students quickly switch to another problem if their solution fails - Answers
:demonstrated skills for self-regulation (self-management)
Adults should always use ____ within oral story problems - Answers :concrete objects
Which of the following is true regarding children's development if the concept of
symbolic representation:
Is it normal for a four year old to not correctly produce /r/ and /s/ speech sounds? -
Answers :yes; likely normal
Print awareness - Answers :The ability to be aware of the forms and functions of printed
language.
Research finds that ___ year olds are likely to acquire print concepts before word
concepts - Answers :four
, word awareness - Answers :knowing that individual words make up a sentence
"A brown cat jumped over the car." has 7 words
Interactive book reading parts - Answers :1) 3S strategy: see, show, say
2) Asking the students "wh-" questions
e) Expanded book reading strategy (asking children to predict the possible subject
matter of a book ... can have children discuss setting, characters, and events ... relating
the story to their own lives)
3N Strategy - Answers :Notice (where they are at), nudge (nudge to do something
above their level), and narrate (describe what child did)
This teaching strategy involves providing scaffolding.
What reading comprehension strategy is most applicable to differentiating between
homonyms without knowing their exact spellings? - Answers :Context
Which of these is an example of attributes to seek in good children's literature:
A. Stable story characters who do not change
B. Books featuring overly moralistic themes
C. Concise summaries of race/genders types
D. Original yet believable plot constructions - Answers :original yet believable plot
constructions
Traditional genre of children's literature - Answers :Likely to begin with "once upon a
time" and "happily ever after"
Which of these is true regarding early signs of reading difficulties in young children:
A. A child's inability to form rhymes is not a concern as long as she can identify rhymes
B. A child's inability to separate words into individual phonemes can indicate a problem
C. A child's inability to blend individual phonemes to form words is not a sign of trouble
D. A child's inability to count word syllables or spell new words phonetically is immaterial
- Answers :A child's inability to separate words into individual phonemes can indicate a
problem
Word wall - Answers :An on-going bulletin board with common terms used frequently in
the classroom. Vocabulary words are added as they are introduced
A. When young children engage in make believe and pretend play this is symbolic
representation
B. Children do not develop this ability until they are old enough to engage in fully
abstract thinking
C. Children first show this concept by reading, writing, and connecting written with
spoken language
a) How do children develop phonological awareness?
b) What are some activities to develop it?
c) What is phonological awareness focused on for young children?
d) Why is it important? - Answers :a) Through exposure to language and through direct
training, both of which are provided by the adults around them and in their lives.
b) Direct activities include clapping sounds, reading poems, singing nursery rhymes,
grouping by beginning sounds.
c) Phonological awareness = speech sounds
d) Phonological awareness is the most predictive of a child's long-term literary
performance
Should you use analogies or metaphors with young children? - Answers :The ability to
understand the abstraction provided in metaphors isn't available until later in life
What is the earliest phonological feature to be independently recognizable in a typically
developing child? - Answers :rhyming
Are linear, one-way questions or more open-ended questions best for language
development? - Answers :Asking children more open-ended questions
Early production stage of language acquisition - Answers :learners produce single-word
and two- to three-word phrases and can respond to questions and statements
Articulation disorder - Answers :Difficulty producing speech sounds or speech sound
sequences
Which of these is an indication that a child has problems with reading comprehension:
A. The child wonders about why the characters in a story did some things
B. The child can tell how a story they read ended but can't explain why
C. The child makes predictions about what will happen next in a narrative
D. The child associates things in the reading with things in their own life - Answers :The
child can tell how a story they read ended but can't explain why
Dyslexic students and objective tests - Answers :Dyslexic students perform worse on
objectives tests than their IQ and knowledge
Concerning spelling, what statement is correct about how children learn:
A. Children must be taught spelling patterns as they will not learn them incidentally
B. Children who know basic spelling rules can deduce spellings for words they hear
C. Children may be able to spell words but this does not mean they can read them
,D. Children's reading and writing skills promote spelling but the reverse is not true -
Answers :Children who know basic spelling rules can deduce spellings for words they
hear
According to linguists what do invented spellings by young children best signify? -
Answers :Inventing spellings for words is evidence of one's comprehension
In which stage of writing development do children understand that written forms
symbolize meanings:
A. Scribbling and drawing
B. Letters
C. Letters and spaces
D. Letter like forms and shapes - Answers :D. Letter like forms and shapes
POWER instructional strategy - Answers :Planning -> Organizing -> Writing -> Editing -
> Rewriting
Used for teaching students the writing process
In selecting literature for children the most important fist step a teacher should perform
is to evaluate - Answers :class composition and preferences
Which of the following correctly describes a characteristic of students with effective
problem solving skills:
A. Students develop hypotheses via repeated trial and error tests
B. Students have developed demonstrated skills for self regulation
C. Students are cautious in solving problems and avoid taking a risk
D. Students quickly switch to another problem if their solution fails - Answers
:demonstrated skills for self-regulation (self-management)
Adults should always use ____ within oral story problems - Answers :concrete objects
Which of the following is true regarding children's development if the concept of
symbolic representation:
Is it normal for a four year old to not correctly produce /r/ and /s/ speech sounds? -
Answers :yes; likely normal
Print awareness - Answers :The ability to be aware of the forms and functions of printed
language.
Research finds that ___ year olds are likely to acquire print concepts before word
concepts - Answers :four
, word awareness - Answers :knowing that individual words make up a sentence
"A brown cat jumped over the car." has 7 words
Interactive book reading parts - Answers :1) 3S strategy: see, show, say
2) Asking the students "wh-" questions
e) Expanded book reading strategy (asking children to predict the possible subject
matter of a book ... can have children discuss setting, characters, and events ... relating
the story to their own lives)
3N Strategy - Answers :Notice (where they are at), nudge (nudge to do something
above their level), and narrate (describe what child did)
This teaching strategy involves providing scaffolding.
What reading comprehension strategy is most applicable to differentiating between
homonyms without knowing their exact spellings? - Answers :Context
Which of these is an example of attributes to seek in good children's literature:
A. Stable story characters who do not change
B. Books featuring overly moralistic themes
C. Concise summaries of race/genders types
D. Original yet believable plot constructions - Answers :original yet believable plot
constructions
Traditional genre of children's literature - Answers :Likely to begin with "once upon a
time" and "happily ever after"
Which of these is true regarding early signs of reading difficulties in young children:
A. A child's inability to form rhymes is not a concern as long as she can identify rhymes
B. A child's inability to separate words into individual phonemes can indicate a problem
C. A child's inability to blend individual phonemes to form words is not a sign of trouble
D. A child's inability to count word syllables or spell new words phonetically is immaterial
- Answers :A child's inability to separate words into individual phonemes can indicate a
problem
Word wall - Answers :An on-going bulletin board with common terms used frequently in
the classroom. Vocabulary words are added as they are introduced
A. When young children engage in make believe and pretend play this is symbolic
representation
B. Children do not develop this ability until they are old enough to engage in fully
abstract thinking
C. Children first show this concept by reading, writing, and connecting written with
spoken language
