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Pass Solutions 2026-2027 Updated.
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? - Answer 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? - Answer 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? - Answer rhyming
Are linear, one-way questions or more open-ended questions best for language development? -
Answer Asking children more open-ended questions
Early production stage of language acquisition - Answer learners produce single-word and
two- to three-word phrases and can respond to questions and statements
Articulation disorder - Answer Difficulty producing speech sounds or speech sound sequences
Is it normal for a four year old to not correctly produce /r/ and /s/ speech sounds? - Answer
yes; likely normal
Print awareness - Answer 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 -
Answer four
word awareness - Answer knowing that individual words make up a sentence
,"A brown cat jumped over the car." has 7 words
Interactive book reading parts - Answer 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 - Answer 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? - Answer 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 - Answer original yet believable plot constructions
Traditional genre of children's literature - Answer 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 -
Answer A child's inability to separate words into individual phonemes can indicate a problem
Word wall - Answer An on-going bulletin board with common terms used frequently in the
classroom. Vocabulary words are added as they are introduced
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 - Answer The child can
tell how a story they read ended but can't explain why
Dyslexic students and objective tests - Answer 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 - Answer
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? - Answer
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 - Answer D. Letter like forms and shapes
POWER instructional strategy - Answer 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 - Answer class composition and preferences
Pass Solutions 2026-2027 Updated.
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? - Answer 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? - Answer 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? - Answer rhyming
Are linear, one-way questions or more open-ended questions best for language development? -
Answer Asking children more open-ended questions
Early production stage of language acquisition - Answer learners produce single-word and
two- to three-word phrases and can respond to questions and statements
Articulation disorder - Answer Difficulty producing speech sounds or speech sound sequences
Is it normal for a four year old to not correctly produce /r/ and /s/ speech sounds? - Answer
yes; likely normal
Print awareness - Answer 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 -
Answer four
word awareness - Answer knowing that individual words make up a sentence
,"A brown cat jumped over the car." has 7 words
Interactive book reading parts - Answer 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 - Answer 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? - Answer 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 - Answer original yet believable plot constructions
Traditional genre of children's literature - Answer 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 -
Answer A child's inability to separate words into individual phonemes can indicate a problem
Word wall - Answer An on-going bulletin board with common terms used frequently in the
classroom. Vocabulary words are added as they are introduced
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 - Answer The child can
tell how a story they read ended but can't explain why
Dyslexic students and objective tests - Answer 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 - Answer
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? - Answer
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 - Answer D. Letter like forms and shapes
POWER instructional strategy - Answer 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 - Answer class composition and preferences
