ERAILSAFE ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS VERIFIED A+
●● Competency 1
Answer: demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language
development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and
phonological and phonemic awareness.
●● Informal conversations
Answer: Time to talk about things that interest and excite children.
●● Language play
Answer: Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young children
delight in as they work and play.
●● Rhymes and song
Answer: Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme encourage children to
play with words.
●● Stories
Answer: Children discover new words and meanings as they listen to
good stories — either told or read aloud.
,●● Group talk
Answer: Times during the day when conventions of shared
conversations are learned and practiced.
●● Because this entire period between birth and the early elementary
school years helps prepare children with the skills important for
conventional literacy, we refer to this critical stage of language
development as _____ _____.
Answer: Emergent Literacy
●● The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the everyday life of
the classroom and to make literacy activities _____ to each child.
Answer: fundamental, relevant
●● _____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn
to do the same.
Answer: listen, respond
●● LEA
Answer: Language Experience Approach
●● Dictated Stories
Answer: LEA
,●● alliteration
Answer: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed
syllable in a line of verse
●● language delay
Answer: There are many factors that cause language delay, both
environmental and physical. Common conditions include inadequate
language stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child);
delayed general development; parents/guardians or siblings who often
talk for the child; medical and physical problems; family history of
language delay; learning disabilities; and autism spectrum disorders
(ASD).
●● ASD
Answer: Autism Spectrum Disorders
●● Listening can be described as part of an active communication
process that involves _____, _____, and _____ to verbal input.
Answer: receiving, interpreting, responding
●● The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____
meaning.
Answer: receiving, attending, assigning meaning
, ●● Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening
skills during three phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and
_____ .
Answer: pre-listening, during listening, after listening
●● discriminative listening
Answer: distinguishing beginning consonant sounds, for example
●● aesthetic listening
Answer: for enjoyment
●● critical listening
Answer: is listening in order to evaluate and judge, forming opinion
about what is being said.
●● efferent listening
Answer: to understand a message
●● phonological
Answer: the study of the sound system of a given language and the
analysis and classification of its phonemes
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS VERIFIED A+
●● Competency 1
Answer: demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language
development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and
phonological and phonemic awareness.
●● Informal conversations
Answer: Time to talk about things that interest and excite children.
●● Language play
Answer: Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young children
delight in as they work and play.
●● Rhymes and song
Answer: Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme encourage children to
play with words.
●● Stories
Answer: Children discover new words and meanings as they listen to
good stories — either told or read aloud.
,●● Group talk
Answer: Times during the day when conventions of shared
conversations are learned and practiced.
●● Because this entire period between birth and the early elementary
school years helps prepare children with the skills important for
conventional literacy, we refer to this critical stage of language
development as _____ _____.
Answer: Emergent Literacy
●● The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the everyday life of
the classroom and to make literacy activities _____ to each child.
Answer: fundamental, relevant
●● _____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn
to do the same.
Answer: listen, respond
●● LEA
Answer: Language Experience Approach
●● Dictated Stories
Answer: LEA
,●● alliteration
Answer: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed
syllable in a line of verse
●● language delay
Answer: There are many factors that cause language delay, both
environmental and physical. Common conditions include inadequate
language stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child);
delayed general development; parents/guardians or siblings who often
talk for the child; medical and physical problems; family history of
language delay; learning disabilities; and autism spectrum disorders
(ASD).
●● ASD
Answer: Autism Spectrum Disorders
●● Listening can be described as part of an active communication
process that involves _____, _____, and _____ to verbal input.
Answer: receiving, interpreting, responding
●● The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____
meaning.
Answer: receiving, attending, assigning meaning
, ●● Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening
skills during three phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and
_____ .
Answer: pre-listening, during listening, after listening
●● discriminative listening
Answer: distinguishing beginning consonant sounds, for example
●● aesthetic listening
Answer: for enjoyment
●● critical listening
Answer: is listening in order to evaluate and judge, forming opinion
about what is being said.
●● efferent listening
Answer: to understand a message
●● phonological
Answer: the study of the sound system of a given language and the
analysis and classification of its phonemes
