ECE 206
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ECE 206
1. A first- grade teacher learns that his class for the up- b)
coming school year will include students from vari-
ous cultural backgrounds with a number of home lan-
guages. The teacher wants to create an inclusive &
respectful learning environment for the class. Which of
the following teacher steps is likely to be most effective
in promoting his goal?
a) asking the student's families to send in objects from
home that reflect their culture to include in classroom
activities
b)including books, music & photographs in the class-
room environment that originate from the students'
cultures.
c)incorporating words from the students' various
home languages into daily lessons throughout the
year.
d)planning a variety of activities for the first day of
school centered around helping the students get to
know each other
2. At the beginning of the school year, a preschool c) helping children gain a
teacher plans the daily routines of the class. The sense of security
teacher decides that every day when the children ar-
rive at school, they will first hang up their backups,
in their assigned cubbies and then choose a table top
activity. After table top activities, the children clean
up and join the teacher at the carpet for teacher-led
stories & songs. Which of the following rationales de-
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scribes the primary benefit of establishing daily rou-
tines for children?
a) promoting children's friendships
b) fostering children's early academic skills
c) helping children gain a sense of security
d)ensuring development children of children's inde-
pendent self-care skills
3. An early childhood teacher is planning the classroom d) social development
environment for three- and four-year-old children. She
creates centers in the room for art, dramatic play, sen-
sory activities and building with blocks. Within each
of these centers, she has shelves and containers of
materials labeled with pictures and words, such as
crayons, blocks & cars. This practice is likely to promote
the children's skills in literacy and:
a) independent thinking
b)time management
c)conflict resolution
d)social development
4. At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten c) limiting the capacity of
teacher sets up her classroom to include learning cen- children in each other
ters. She arranges her room with a reading area, an art
center, a block area, & an area for dramatic play.
Which of the following classroom management strate-
gies would be most effective to encourage positive
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social interactions among the children at each learning
center?
a) allowing different children to play in each center
each day
b) reducing the number of materials in each center
c) limiting the capacity of children in each center
d) grouping children at each center with similar per-
sonalities and interests
5. An 8-year-old student who is an English language d) Speech emergence
learner has recently joined a second-grade class.
she can communicate in English with simple phras-
es & sentences and has an English vocabulary of ap-
proximately 3,000 words. she often makes grammar
and pronunciation errors and misunderstands jokes.
Which of the following stages of second language ac-
quisition best describes this student's present level?
a) intermediate fluency
b) early production
c) preproduction
d) speech emergence
6. According to research, the factor that has been shown d) number & quality of in-
to have the greatest influence on an infant's language teractions the infant has
development is the: with primary caregivers
a) quantity and ages of an infant's siblings that live in
the same household
b) age at which the infant attends day care.
c) amount of time the infant spends with others out-
side the home
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d) number & quality of interactions the infant has with
primary caregivers
7. A first-grade teacher ensures students have ample a) reading skills by rein-
opportunities to write during the day. For example, forcing their understand-
students frequently write lists and stories & encourage ing of the relationship be-
in cooperative writing tasks with peers. Students are tween sounds & letters
also provided many occasions to share their writing
with the class. In addition to promoting student's writ-
ing development, the teacher's regular use of these
activities most likely directly builds students':
a) reading skills by reinforcing their understanding of
the relationship between sounds & letters
b) vocabulary development by helping them expand
their understand of printed words
c) listening skills be developing their ability to hear
peers retell stories of events from their day
d) word knowledge by promoting their understanding
of sophisticated and interesting words
8. An early childhood educator would like to promote d) engaging the child in
the speech development of a nine-month-old by mo- games that require her to
tivating her to produce words. Which of the following make a request using vo-
strategies is most developmental appropriate to ad- calization (blowing more
dress the teachers goals? bubbles from a wand)
9. A new student whose home language is not English b) enriching their oral lan-
recently joined a first-grade class. The teacher commu- guage development
nicates to the students' parents through a translator
and suggests they read to their child every night & con-
tinue to speak to each other in their home language
as much as possible. This practice benefits English
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ECE 206
1. A first- grade teacher learns that his class for the up- b)
coming school year will include students from vari-
ous cultural backgrounds with a number of home lan-
guages. The teacher wants to create an inclusive &
respectful learning environment for the class. Which of
the following teacher steps is likely to be most effective
in promoting his goal?
a) asking the student's families to send in objects from
home that reflect their culture to include in classroom
activities
b)including books, music & photographs in the class-
room environment that originate from the students'
cultures.
c)incorporating words from the students' various
home languages into daily lessons throughout the
year.
d)planning a variety of activities for the first day of
school centered around helping the students get to
know each other
2. At the beginning of the school year, a preschool c) helping children gain a
teacher plans the daily routines of the class. The sense of security
teacher decides that every day when the children ar-
rive at school, they will first hang up their backups,
in their assigned cubbies and then choose a table top
activity. After table top activities, the children clean
up and join the teacher at the carpet for teacher-led
stories & songs. Which of the following rationales de-
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scribes the primary benefit of establishing daily rou-
tines for children?
a) promoting children's friendships
b) fostering children's early academic skills
c) helping children gain a sense of security
d)ensuring development children of children's inde-
pendent self-care skills
3. An early childhood teacher is planning the classroom d) social development
environment for three- and four-year-old children. She
creates centers in the room for art, dramatic play, sen-
sory activities and building with blocks. Within each
of these centers, she has shelves and containers of
materials labeled with pictures and words, such as
crayons, blocks & cars. This practice is likely to promote
the children's skills in literacy and:
a) independent thinking
b)time management
c)conflict resolution
d)social development
4. At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten c) limiting the capacity of
teacher sets up her classroom to include learning cen- children in each other
ters. She arranges her room with a reading area, an art
center, a block area, & an area for dramatic play.
Which of the following classroom management strate-
gies would be most effective to encourage positive
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social interactions among the children at each learning
center?
a) allowing different children to play in each center
each day
b) reducing the number of materials in each center
c) limiting the capacity of children in each center
d) grouping children at each center with similar per-
sonalities and interests
5. An 8-year-old student who is an English language d) Speech emergence
learner has recently joined a second-grade class.
she can communicate in English with simple phras-
es & sentences and has an English vocabulary of ap-
proximately 3,000 words. she often makes grammar
and pronunciation errors and misunderstands jokes.
Which of the following stages of second language ac-
quisition best describes this student's present level?
a) intermediate fluency
b) early production
c) preproduction
d) speech emergence
6. According to research, the factor that has been shown d) number & quality of in-
to have the greatest influence on an infant's language teractions the infant has
development is the: with primary caregivers
a) quantity and ages of an infant's siblings that live in
the same household
b) age at which the infant attends day care.
c) amount of time the infant spends with others out-
side the home
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d) number & quality of interactions the infant has with
primary caregivers
7. A first-grade teacher ensures students have ample a) reading skills by rein-
opportunities to write during the day. For example, forcing their understand-
students frequently write lists and stories & encourage ing of the relationship be-
in cooperative writing tasks with peers. Students are tween sounds & letters
also provided many occasions to share their writing
with the class. In addition to promoting student's writ-
ing development, the teacher's regular use of these
activities most likely directly builds students':
a) reading skills by reinforcing their understanding of
the relationship between sounds & letters
b) vocabulary development by helping them expand
their understand of printed words
c) listening skills be developing their ability to hear
peers retell stories of events from their day
d) word knowledge by promoting their understanding
of sophisticated and interesting words
8. An early childhood educator would like to promote d) engaging the child in
the speech development of a nine-month-old by mo- games that require her to
tivating her to produce words. Which of the following make a request using vo-
strategies is most developmental appropriate to ad- calization (blowing more
dress the teachers goals? bubbles from a wand)
9. A new student whose home language is not English b) enriching their oral lan-
recently joined a first-grade class. The teacher commu- guage development
nicates to the students' parents through a translator
and suggests they read to their child every night & con-
tinue to speak to each other in their home language
as much as possible. This practice benefits English
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