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Boost your confidence and guarantee your passing score on the Illinois
Licensure Testing System (ILTS) Early Childhood Education (206) Exam. This
comprehensive set of 100 realistic practice questions and verified answers
helps you master developmental milestones, curriculum strategies, and state
standards for birth through grade two.
Why Choose This Practice Exam?
Targeted Content: Matches the four core domains tested on the exam: Child
Development, Language & Literacy (31% of the exam), Learning Across the
Curriculum (31%), and Professional Responsibilities.
Verified Explanations: Every question includes a correct answer
Realistic Format: Mimics the exact question types, distractors, and difficulty
level of the actual ILTS 206 test.
Proven Success: Trusted by prospective Illinois educators to reduce test anxiety
and improve pacing during the 195-minute, 100-question computer-based
exam.
Exam Breakdown
Subarea I: Child Development, Learning, & Assessment (approx. 25 questions)
Subarea II: Language & Literacy Development (approx. 31 questions)
Subarea III: Learning Across the Curriculum (approx. 31 questions)
Subarea IV: Professional Relationships & Responsibilities (approx. 13
questions)
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, Quiz_________________?
Equilibrium: -
Answer☑️
-Family's balance and consistency
Quiz_________________?
Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget): -
Answer☑️
-Birth-2 years old, Infants learn through environmental input they receive
through their senses; motor actions they engage in; and through feedback
they receive from their bodies and the environment about their actions
Quiz_________________?
Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget), First 3 substages: -
Answer☑️
-From birth to 1 month old, infant learns to comprehend their environment
through their inborn reflexes such as sucking or looking around.
-From 1-4 months old, babies begin to coordinate their physical sensations
with new schemas they form to represent elements of reality.
-From 4-8 months (Secondary Circular Reactions), children repeat
rewarding actions but now they are focused on things in the environment
that they can affect
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, Quiz_________________?
Last 3 substages of Sensorimotor stage: -
Answer☑️
-From 8-12 month (Coordination of Reactions): having begun repeating
actions purposefully to achieve environmental effects during the previous
substage and further explore their surroundings. Frequently imitate others
-(Tertiary Circular Reactions), 12-18 months, children begin to experiment
through rial and error.
-(Early Representational Thought) 18-24 months, children begin
representing objects and events with symbols
Quiz_________________?
Object Permanence: -
Answer☑️
the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
(typically 8-9 months)
Quiz_________________?
Schema and Schema development: -
Answer☑️
-A schema does not represent an individual object, but a category or class
of things.
3
, Quiz_________________?
Conservation: -
Answer☑️
-The cognitive ability to understand that objects or substances retain their
properties of numbers or amounts even when their appearance, shape or
configuration changes. ex: liquid volume experiment
Quiz_________________?
Preoperational Stage: -
Answer☑️
-(Piaget), 2-6 years children cannot yet perform mental operations nor
manipulate information mentally.
Quiz_________________?
Concrete Operational Stage: -
Answer☑️
-(Piaget) 6-7 years, children begin to think logically using cause and effect
to things they can see, feel or manipulate physically. However, they still
struggle to think abstractly.
Quiz_________________?
Preoperational Stage Continued: -
Answer☑️
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