National Board Early Childhood
Generalist Component 1 Exam
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Reflection - ✔✔Minute-to- minute adjustments a teacher makes or in the more
thoughtful analysis and deliberate adjustments made at the end of a unit
Orthography - ✔✔A set of conventions for writing a language (spelling, capitalization,
punctuation)
Students need lots of opportunities to - ✔✔count and produce sets
composing/decomposing - ✔✔Mathematical processes of putting together and taking
apart (for example, addition and subtraction)
Unitizing - ✔✔Must be grasped before moving students to base 10 blocks
Stages of language development - ✔✔1- Preproduction minimal comprehension
2- Early productivity limited comprehension
3- Speech emergence good comprehension
4-Intermediate fluency excellent comprehension
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,5- Advanced fluency near native language
Carol Tomlinson - ✔✔Differentiated instruction - A more qualitative than quantitative
approach to teaching and learning for students of differing abilities to maximize each
students growth and individual success by meeting each student where they are and
assisting in the learning process
Differentiation - ✔✔Teachers response to the learners needs : respectful tasks, continual
assessment, flexible grouping
Teachers can differentiate - ✔✔Content, process, product
Differentiate according to students - ✔✔Readiness, interests, learning profile
Differentiated Instructional strategies - ✔✔Learning stations, task cards, target different
senses, think-pair-share, group students with similar learning styles
Stages of Phonological Awareness/Literacy Development - ✔✔1&2-Listening and
speaking
3-Rhyme awareness
4-Syllable awareness (Mon•day)
5-Onset & Rhyme (t•all)
6&7- Phonemic Awareness (pencil) 5 sounds
8- Phonics - sound /letter relationships
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, 9&10 Phonics - reading & spelling
Homonyms - ✔✔Spruce- to spruce up
Spruce - spruce tree
Homographs - ✔✔Bow- to bend down
Bow- ribbon
Homophones - ✔✔Rode/Road
Affixes - ✔✔prefixes and suffixes
Root words - ✔✔morphemes
Schwa - ✔✔Mysterious unstressed vowel (banana) /u/
Developmental Stages of Writing - ✔✔1. Pre-Literate - scribble, symbolic stage,
directional scribble, mock letters
2. Emergent - letter strings, letter groups, labels pictures, environmental print
3. Transitional - Letter/Word representation, first/last letter (ct=cat)
4. Fluent - Beginning phrase writing, sentence writing
Stages of Writing - ✔✔1. Planning
2. First Draft
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Generalist Component 1 Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Reflection - ✔✔Minute-to- minute adjustments a teacher makes or in the more
thoughtful analysis and deliberate adjustments made at the end of a unit
Orthography - ✔✔A set of conventions for writing a language (spelling, capitalization,
punctuation)
Students need lots of opportunities to - ✔✔count and produce sets
composing/decomposing - ✔✔Mathematical processes of putting together and taking
apart (for example, addition and subtraction)
Unitizing - ✔✔Must be grasped before moving students to base 10 blocks
Stages of language development - ✔✔1- Preproduction minimal comprehension
2- Early productivity limited comprehension
3- Speech emergence good comprehension
4-Intermediate fluency excellent comprehension
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,5- Advanced fluency near native language
Carol Tomlinson - ✔✔Differentiated instruction - A more qualitative than quantitative
approach to teaching and learning for students of differing abilities to maximize each
students growth and individual success by meeting each student where they are and
assisting in the learning process
Differentiation - ✔✔Teachers response to the learners needs : respectful tasks, continual
assessment, flexible grouping
Teachers can differentiate - ✔✔Content, process, product
Differentiate according to students - ✔✔Readiness, interests, learning profile
Differentiated Instructional strategies - ✔✔Learning stations, task cards, target different
senses, think-pair-share, group students with similar learning styles
Stages of Phonological Awareness/Literacy Development - ✔✔1&2-Listening and
speaking
3-Rhyme awareness
4-Syllable awareness (Mon•day)
5-Onset & Rhyme (t•all)
6&7- Phonemic Awareness (pencil) 5 sounds
8- Phonics - sound /letter relationships
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, 9&10 Phonics - reading & spelling
Homonyms - ✔✔Spruce- to spruce up
Spruce - spruce tree
Homographs - ✔✔Bow- to bend down
Bow- ribbon
Homophones - ✔✔Rode/Road
Affixes - ✔✔prefixes and suffixes
Root words - ✔✔morphemes
Schwa - ✔✔Mysterious unstressed vowel (banana) /u/
Developmental Stages of Writing - ✔✔1. Pre-Literate - scribble, symbolic stage,
directional scribble, mock letters
2. Emergent - letter strings, letter groups, labels pictures, environmental print
3. Transitional - Letter/Word representation, first/last letter (ct=cat)
4. Fluent - Beginning phrase writing, sentence writing
Stages of Writing - ✔✔1. Planning
2. First Draft
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