ECE 206 EXAM QUESTIONS &
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A first- grade teacher learns that his class for the upcoming school year will include
students from various cultural backgrounds with a number of home languages. The
teacher wants to create an inclusive & respectful learning environment for the class.
Which of the following teacher steps is likely to be most effective in promoting his goal?
a) asking the student's families to send in objects from home that reflect their culture to
include in classroom activities
b)including books, music & photographs in the classroom environment that originate
from the students' cultures.
c)incorporating words from the students' various home languages into daily lessons
throughout the year.
d)planning a variety of activities for the first day of school centered around helping the
students get to know each other - Correct Answer ✔✔ b)
At the beginning of the school year, a preschool teacher plans the daily routines of the
class. The teacher decides that every day when the children arrive at school, they will
first hang up their backups, in their assigned cubbies and then choose a table top
activity. After table top activities, the children clean up and join the teacher at the carpet
for teacher-led stories & songs. Which of the following rationales describes the primary
benefit of establishing daily routines for children?
a) promoting children's friendships
b) fostering children's early academic skills
c) helping children gain a sense of security
d)ensuring development children of children's independent self-care skills - Correct
Answer ✔✔ c) helping children gain a sense of security
An early childhood teacher is planning the classroom environment for three- and four-
year-old children. She creates centers in the room for art, dramatic play, sensory
activities and building with blocks. Within each of these centers, she has shelves and
containers of materials labeled with pictures and words, such as crayons, blocks & cars.
This practice is likely to promote the children's skills in literacy and:
,a) independent thinking
b)time management
c)conflict resolution
d)social development - Correct Answer ✔✔ d) social development
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher sets up her classroom to
include learning centers. She arranges her room with a reading area, an art center, a
block area, & an area for dramatic play.
Which of the following classroom management strategies would be most effective to
encourage positive social interactions among the children at each learning center?
a) allowing different children to play in each center each day
b) reducing the number of materials in each center
c) limiting the capacity of children in each center
d) grouping children at each center with similar personalities and interests - Correct
Answer ✔✔ c) limiting the capacity of children in each other
An 8-year-old student who is an English language learner has recently joined a second-
grade class. she can communicate in English with simple phrases & sentences and has
an English vocabulary of approximately 3,000 words. she often makes grammar and
pronunciation errors and misunderstands jokes. Which of the following stages of second
language acquisition best describes this student's present level?
a) intermediate fluency
b) early production
c) preproduction
d) speech emergence - Correct Answer ✔✔ d) Speech emergence
According to research, the factor that has been shown to have the greatest influence on
an infant's language development is the:
a) quantity and ages of an infant's siblings that live in the same household
b) age at which the infant attends day care.
c) amount of time the infant spends with others outside the home
d) number & quality of interactions the infant has with primary caregivers - Correct
Answer ✔✔ d) number & quality of interactions the infant has with primary caregivers
A first-grade teacher ensures students have ample opportunities to write during the day.
For example, students frequently write lists and stories & encourage in cooperative
writing tasks with peers. Students are also provided many occasions to share their
writing with the class. In addition to promoting student's writing development, the
teacher's regular use of these activities most likely directly builds students':
, a) reading skills by reinforcing their understanding of the relationship between sounds &
letters
b) vocabulary development by helping them expand their understand of printed words
c) listening skills be developing their ability to hear peers retell stories of events from
their day
d) word knowledge by promoting their understanding of sophisticated and interesting
words - Correct Answer ✔✔ a) reading skills by reinforcing their understanding of the
relationship between sounds & letters
An early childhood educator would like to promote the speech development of a nine-
month-old by motivating her to produce words. Which of the following strategies is most
developmental appropriate to address the teachers goals? - Correct Answer ✔✔ d)
engaging the child in games that require her to make a request using vocalization
(blowing more bubbles from a wand)
A new student whose home language is not English recently joined a first-grade class.
The teacher communicates to the students' parents through a translator and suggests
they read to their child every night & continue to speak to each other in their home
language as much as possible. This practice benefits English language learners primary
in which of the following ways?
a) encouraging communication between home & school
b) enriching their oral language development
c) ensuring they remain fluent in their home language
d) involving the families in their child's language development - Correct Answer ✔✔ b)
enriching their oral language development
An early childhood teacher works in a day-care center. She sits on the floor to play with
a none-month-old infant who is interested in a bucket of plastic blocks that can be easily
stacked together. Which of the following teacher actions would best engage the infant &
encourage communication?
a) imitating the sounds the infant makes
b) telling the infant about the different colors of the blocks
c) talking about the blocks as the infant plays with them
d) asking the infant questions with nonverbal cues - Correct Answer ✔✔ talking about
the blocks as the infant plays with them
At the beginning of the school year, a preschool teacher sends home a letter requesting
that parents/guardians participate in various oral language enrichment activities with
their children. The teacher's requests include the following:
Play simple rhyming games with your children (cat/bat/hat, wig/big/pig)
Sing familiar songs with your child & add silly and fun & verses ("Baa, Baa, Black cow",
"Twinkle, twinkle, little mouse")
DETAILED COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE
A first- grade teacher learns that his class for the upcoming school year will include
students from various cultural backgrounds with a number of home languages. The
teacher wants to create an inclusive & respectful learning environment for the class.
Which of the following teacher steps is likely to be most effective in promoting his goal?
a) asking the student's families to send in objects from home that reflect their culture to
include in classroom activities
b)including books, music & photographs in the classroom environment that originate
from the students' cultures.
c)incorporating words from the students' various home languages into daily lessons
throughout the year.
d)planning a variety of activities for the first day of school centered around helping the
students get to know each other - Correct Answer ✔✔ b)
At the beginning of the school year, a preschool teacher plans the daily routines of the
class. The teacher decides that every day when the children arrive at school, they will
first hang up their backups, in their assigned cubbies and then choose a table top
activity. After table top activities, the children clean up and join the teacher at the carpet
for teacher-led stories & songs. Which of the following rationales describes the primary
benefit of establishing daily routines for children?
a) promoting children's friendships
b) fostering children's early academic skills
c) helping children gain a sense of security
d)ensuring development children of children's independent self-care skills - Correct
Answer ✔✔ c) helping children gain a sense of security
An early childhood teacher is planning the classroom environment for three- and four-
year-old children. She creates centers in the room for art, dramatic play, sensory
activities and building with blocks. Within each of these centers, she has shelves and
containers of materials labeled with pictures and words, such as crayons, blocks & cars.
This practice is likely to promote the children's skills in literacy and:
,a) independent thinking
b)time management
c)conflict resolution
d)social development - Correct Answer ✔✔ d) social development
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher sets up her classroom to
include learning centers. She arranges her room with a reading area, an art center, a
block area, & an area for dramatic play.
Which of the following classroom management strategies would be most effective to
encourage positive social interactions among the children at each learning center?
a) allowing different children to play in each center each day
b) reducing the number of materials in each center
c) limiting the capacity of children in each center
d) grouping children at each center with similar personalities and interests - Correct
Answer ✔✔ c) limiting the capacity of children in each other
An 8-year-old student who is an English language learner has recently joined a second-
grade class. she can communicate in English with simple phrases & sentences and has
an English vocabulary of approximately 3,000 words. she often makes grammar and
pronunciation errors and misunderstands jokes. Which of the following stages of second
language acquisition best describes this student's present level?
a) intermediate fluency
b) early production
c) preproduction
d) speech emergence - Correct Answer ✔✔ d) Speech emergence
According to research, the factor that has been shown to have the greatest influence on
an infant's language development is the:
a) quantity and ages of an infant's siblings that live in the same household
b) age at which the infant attends day care.
c) amount of time the infant spends with others outside the home
d) number & quality of interactions the infant has with primary caregivers - Correct
Answer ✔✔ d) number & quality of interactions the infant has with primary caregivers
A first-grade teacher ensures students have ample opportunities to write during the day.
For example, students frequently write lists and stories & encourage in cooperative
writing tasks with peers. Students are also provided many occasions to share their
writing with the class. In addition to promoting student's writing development, the
teacher's regular use of these activities most likely directly builds students':
, a) reading skills by reinforcing their understanding of the relationship between sounds &
letters
b) vocabulary development by helping them expand their understand of printed words
c) listening skills be developing their ability to hear peers retell stories of events from
their day
d) word knowledge by promoting their understanding of sophisticated and interesting
words - Correct Answer ✔✔ a) reading skills by reinforcing their understanding of the
relationship between sounds & letters
An early childhood educator would like to promote the speech development of a nine-
month-old by motivating her to produce words. Which of the following strategies is most
developmental appropriate to address the teachers goals? - Correct Answer ✔✔ d)
engaging the child in games that require her to make a request using vocalization
(blowing more bubbles from a wand)
A new student whose home language is not English recently joined a first-grade class.
The teacher communicates to the students' parents through a translator and suggests
they read to their child every night & continue to speak to each other in their home
language as much as possible. This practice benefits English language learners primary
in which of the following ways?
a) encouraging communication between home & school
b) enriching their oral language development
c) ensuring they remain fluent in their home language
d) involving the families in their child's language development - Correct Answer ✔✔ b)
enriching their oral language development
An early childhood teacher works in a day-care center. She sits on the floor to play with
a none-month-old infant who is interested in a bucket of plastic blocks that can be easily
stacked together. Which of the following teacher actions would best engage the infant &
encourage communication?
a) imitating the sounds the infant makes
b) telling the infant about the different colors of the blocks
c) talking about the blocks as the infant plays with them
d) asking the infant questions with nonverbal cues - Correct Answer ✔✔ talking about
the blocks as the infant plays with them
At the beginning of the school year, a preschool teacher sends home a letter requesting
that parents/guardians participate in various oral language enrichment activities with
their children. The teacher's requests include the following:
Play simple rhyming games with your children (cat/bat/hat, wig/big/pig)
Sing familiar songs with your child & add silly and fun & verses ("Baa, Baa, Black cow",
"Twinkle, twinkle, little mouse")
