CDA EXAM MANUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔A new child has just enrolled in your program. She is from China. Several of the
children to say, "Mei Lee talks funny". You will... - ✔✔explain to them that she is from
another culture, speaks a different language and is learning yours.
Encourage to help her learn our words and to be a kind friend to her.
✔✔Gross motor skills refer to skills that... - ✔✔require children to make large
movements with their bodies
✔✔Children learn best when they.. - ✔✔actively participate
✔✔Marcy came to school today with an angry, negative mood. You can see that this
may soon erupt into physical aggression. The best way to deal with this would be to... -
✔✔provide her with an activity that will help diffuse her angry feelings, such as working
with play dough or throwing sponge balls at a target.
✔✔Coloring books, ABC worksheets, and offering simple artwork are.. - ✔✔not
developmentally appropriate
✔✔Experience charts, labeling items in the room, and making lots of books available
are all examples of.. - ✔✔practice that support emergent literacy
✔✔A writing center for preschools should include... - ✔✔pencils, paper, markers,
envelopes, an old typewriter and a piece of old mail.
✔✔Scribbling is.. - ✔✔an early stage in the development of the children's art and writing
skills
✔✔You see a co-worker leaving a group of napping children alone while she goes into
the hallway. You decide to first... - ✔✔approach her personally about your concerns
✔✔To extend a teachable moment... - ✔✔1. observe what is happening
2. Describe what is happening and ask open-ended questions
3. Let children come up with ideas about what they would like to do
4. (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
✔✔Children's artwork should.. - ✔✔emphasize the progress rather the product
✔✔You find that is becoming difficult to keep the children engaged during circle time.
You should... - ✔✔re- evaluate the time you are expecting the children to stay in circle
time and whether the kind of activities you are providing are interesting to them.
, ✔✔The following materials and activities are appropriate ways to help preschoolers
prepare for reading... - ✔✔magnetic letters, a well stocked book corners, and reading to
them every day.
✔✔A child needs help blowing his nose. You help him use a tissue and then.. - ✔✔You
wash your hands and ask the child to wash his hands too.
✔✔Positive ways too include parents in the program include... - ✔✔reading stories
✔✔You are out on the playground with 12 preschool age children. One of them say "he
needs to use the restroom", so you... - ✔✔take the child and half of the other children in
the building
✔✔An important part of a quality early childhood program is for child caregivers to
communicate with parents. Some examples would be... - ✔✔1. Parent conferences
2. Parent meetings
3. Conversations at arrival and departure time
4. (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
✔✔Parent and teacher conflicts happen. A positive way to resolve them is... - ✔✔1.
Practice active listening
2. Suggest the parents look over their copy of your programs parents handbook,
referring to sections that may clear up misunderstandings and address the problem
✔✔You plan to take a walk through the neighborhood to the fire station tomorrow. To
prepare for this trip, you will... - ✔✔Sit down and explain the trip to the children,
reviewing the procedures for safely crossing the street, saying close to the teachers,
and other safety rules
✔✔Professional relationships with other staff include... - ✔✔1. Attending professional
development events together, such as conferences and workshops
2. Spending time planning cooperatively to meet the needs of the children
3. Treating each other with respect
4. (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
✔✔A milestone of development is... - ✔✔a functional skill or task that most children can
do at a certain age range
✔✔Preschoolers will use shocking language. An appropriate response would be... -
✔✔Telling the child that such language is not appropriate
✔✔A new child has enrolled who has a physical disability. So that she will feel welcome,
you will.. - ✔✔make any adaptions to the indoor/outdoor environment necessary so she
can fully participate in activities to the greatest extent possible
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔A new child has just enrolled in your program. She is from China. Several of the
children to say, "Mei Lee talks funny". You will... - ✔✔explain to them that she is from
another culture, speaks a different language and is learning yours.
Encourage to help her learn our words and to be a kind friend to her.
✔✔Gross motor skills refer to skills that... - ✔✔require children to make large
movements with their bodies
✔✔Children learn best when they.. - ✔✔actively participate
✔✔Marcy came to school today with an angry, negative mood. You can see that this
may soon erupt into physical aggression. The best way to deal with this would be to... -
✔✔provide her with an activity that will help diffuse her angry feelings, such as working
with play dough or throwing sponge balls at a target.
✔✔Coloring books, ABC worksheets, and offering simple artwork are.. - ✔✔not
developmentally appropriate
✔✔Experience charts, labeling items in the room, and making lots of books available
are all examples of.. - ✔✔practice that support emergent literacy
✔✔A writing center for preschools should include... - ✔✔pencils, paper, markers,
envelopes, an old typewriter and a piece of old mail.
✔✔Scribbling is.. - ✔✔an early stage in the development of the children's art and writing
skills
✔✔You see a co-worker leaving a group of napping children alone while she goes into
the hallway. You decide to first... - ✔✔approach her personally about your concerns
✔✔To extend a teachable moment... - ✔✔1. observe what is happening
2. Describe what is happening and ask open-ended questions
3. Let children come up with ideas about what they would like to do
4. (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
✔✔Children's artwork should.. - ✔✔emphasize the progress rather the product
✔✔You find that is becoming difficult to keep the children engaged during circle time.
You should... - ✔✔re- evaluate the time you are expecting the children to stay in circle
time and whether the kind of activities you are providing are interesting to them.
, ✔✔The following materials and activities are appropriate ways to help preschoolers
prepare for reading... - ✔✔magnetic letters, a well stocked book corners, and reading to
them every day.
✔✔A child needs help blowing his nose. You help him use a tissue and then.. - ✔✔You
wash your hands and ask the child to wash his hands too.
✔✔Positive ways too include parents in the program include... - ✔✔reading stories
✔✔You are out on the playground with 12 preschool age children. One of them say "he
needs to use the restroom", so you... - ✔✔take the child and half of the other children in
the building
✔✔An important part of a quality early childhood program is for child caregivers to
communicate with parents. Some examples would be... - ✔✔1. Parent conferences
2. Parent meetings
3. Conversations at arrival and departure time
4. (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
✔✔Parent and teacher conflicts happen. A positive way to resolve them is... - ✔✔1.
Practice active listening
2. Suggest the parents look over their copy of your programs parents handbook,
referring to sections that may clear up misunderstandings and address the problem
✔✔You plan to take a walk through the neighborhood to the fire station tomorrow. To
prepare for this trip, you will... - ✔✔Sit down and explain the trip to the children,
reviewing the procedures for safely crossing the street, saying close to the teachers,
and other safety rules
✔✔Professional relationships with other staff include... - ✔✔1. Attending professional
development events together, such as conferences and workshops
2. Spending time planning cooperatively to meet the needs of the children
3. Treating each other with respect
4. (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
✔✔A milestone of development is... - ✔✔a functional skill or task that most children can
do at a certain age range
✔✔Preschoolers will use shocking language. An appropriate response would be... -
✔✔Telling the child that such language is not appropriate
✔✔A new child has enrolled who has a physical disability. So that she will feel welcome,
you will.. - ✔✔make any adaptions to the indoor/outdoor environment necessary so she
can fully participate in activities to the greatest extent possible
