EDRD 390 FINAL EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
What are daily routines and procedures which can be used in literacy-rich
classrooms? Answer - -Arrival Time: Have children sign in every day to facilitate
attendance checking. The procedure evolves across the year, moving from
simply finding one's name card in a pocket chart to writing one's name on a
clipboard.
-Breakfast and Lunch Time: Post signs indicating where trash and recycling
should be placed.
Morning Group Time: Read at least one book.
Transitions: Draw name cards to indicate who can transition.
Clean Up Routines: Post a chart showing the steps children must follow as they
wash their hands and refer to it as needed (use pictures and labels.)
Rest Time: Post a chart that shows the items children need for rest time: mat or
blanket or book. Refer to the chart regularly.
Preparing to Go Home: Allow children in kindergarten to take home their
personal readers at least once a week.
What are some tips and tricks to create a strong emergent literacy classroom
community? Answer - Help students connect to each other: learn and use each
other's names, use collaborative learning strategies such as partner sharing,
share affirmations when chldren help each other, maintain an atmosphere that
is free of "put-downs."
-Build Student-to Teacher Bonds: Greet individuals as they enter each day.
-Include Student's Languages and Cultures in Class: Invite families and
community representatives to share their cultures.
, -Help Students Identify with the Whole School: Participate in school-wide
beneficiaries projects such as cleaning up trash or decorating the hallways of
the school.
What are literacy centers? Answer - Short whole group lessons, well-paced
small-group rotations, and opportunities for partner or independent
explorations and practice of skills and strategies. (Page 179)
What are the primary characteristics of learning centers? Answer - conducted
away from teacher's direct supervision (include task cards), focused on
skills/strategies of which children have already developed a basic level of
proficiency, exhibits characteristics of effective emergent literacy instruction.
(From S.16 Literacy Center PPT slides)
What are examples of emergent literacy centers? Answer - Alphabet or letter
center, phonics/word study center, reading/library center, writing center,
listening center, name center, technology center. (Page 180-182)
How does emergent writing develop? Answer - mergent writing begins with
the first marks on paper. These scribbles are writing. This continues until they
invent spellings based upon sound and letter correspondence (page 82).
Emergent writing develops better in a print-rich classroom. This is because they
see so many different forms of writing and are exposed to different words
everywhere they look (pages 172 and 173).
What is mock-linear writing? Why is it important? Answer - writing
characterized by a linear arrangement of laetrile shapes and squiggles
when children "mock" or imitate the writing forms that the adults in their life
use and they see. It is important because it helps them establish the idea that
we write from left to right (page 82). It is important to acknowledge the mock
linear writing of students by displaying the student's work around the
classroom. This validates what they are doing and encourages them to
continue (page 173).
100% CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
What are daily routines and procedures which can be used in literacy-rich
classrooms? Answer - -Arrival Time: Have children sign in every day to facilitate
attendance checking. The procedure evolves across the year, moving from
simply finding one's name card in a pocket chart to writing one's name on a
clipboard.
-Breakfast and Lunch Time: Post signs indicating where trash and recycling
should be placed.
Morning Group Time: Read at least one book.
Transitions: Draw name cards to indicate who can transition.
Clean Up Routines: Post a chart showing the steps children must follow as they
wash their hands and refer to it as needed (use pictures and labels.)
Rest Time: Post a chart that shows the items children need for rest time: mat or
blanket or book. Refer to the chart regularly.
Preparing to Go Home: Allow children in kindergarten to take home their
personal readers at least once a week.
What are some tips and tricks to create a strong emergent literacy classroom
community? Answer - Help students connect to each other: learn and use each
other's names, use collaborative learning strategies such as partner sharing,
share affirmations when chldren help each other, maintain an atmosphere that
is free of "put-downs."
-Build Student-to Teacher Bonds: Greet individuals as they enter each day.
-Include Student's Languages and Cultures in Class: Invite families and
community representatives to share their cultures.
, -Help Students Identify with the Whole School: Participate in school-wide
beneficiaries projects such as cleaning up trash or decorating the hallways of
the school.
What are literacy centers? Answer - Short whole group lessons, well-paced
small-group rotations, and opportunities for partner or independent
explorations and practice of skills and strategies. (Page 179)
What are the primary characteristics of learning centers? Answer - conducted
away from teacher's direct supervision (include task cards), focused on
skills/strategies of which children have already developed a basic level of
proficiency, exhibits characteristics of effective emergent literacy instruction.
(From S.16 Literacy Center PPT slides)
What are examples of emergent literacy centers? Answer - Alphabet or letter
center, phonics/word study center, reading/library center, writing center,
listening center, name center, technology center. (Page 180-182)
How does emergent writing develop? Answer - mergent writing begins with
the first marks on paper. These scribbles are writing. This continues until they
invent spellings based upon sound and letter correspondence (page 82).
Emergent writing develops better in a print-rich classroom. This is because they
see so many different forms of writing and are exposed to different words
everywhere they look (pages 172 and 173).
What is mock-linear writing? Why is it important? Answer - writing
characterized by a linear arrangement of laetrile shapes and squiggles
when children "mock" or imitate the writing forms that the adults in their life
use and they see. It is important because it helps them establish the idea that
we write from left to right (page 82). It is important to acknowledge the mock
linear writing of students by displaying the student's work around the
classroom. This validates what they are doing and encourages them to
continue (page 173).
