Final Exam Review 2025 Questions and
Answers (Language and Literacy)
Oral language comprehension - ANS is defined as the speaking and listening skills used for
understanding oral language. (Skills represented in listening comprehension in semantics,
syntax, inference, and memory.)
listening comprehension - ANS understanding what one hears.
Definitional Vocabulary - ANS where children actually can explain word meanings.
syntax - ANS how sentences are constructed (grammar)
language experience approach - ANS teachers use a shared experience to write a text with
students.
substantive conversation - ANS a form of talk adults can use to engage children in extended
dialogues.
vocabulary - ANS body of words known by a person. Organized into two kinds of vocabulary.
What is the definition between receptive vocabulary and expressive vocabulary? -
ANS Receptive vocabulary is what you hear and read.
Expressive vocabulary is what you speak and write
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, Interactive talk - ANS small conversations and short discussions between adult and child.
Follow the child's lead and create joint attention-most useful with infants and toddlers.
Recast child talk to enhance vocabulary and language complexity
Dialogic reading - ANS interactive, sustained conversation between an adult and children
about a book's content.
Role play - ANS dramatic technique that promotes language skills. Can begin with real life
situations that provide opportunities to practice language in different situations, such as in
restaurants, grocery stores, and hospitals.
Sociodramatic play - ANS when students engage in play, they are building their oral language
skills. The oral language demands of social play are huge and linguistically challenging for most
children.
wordplay - ANS engaging students in the playing with sounds. The reason why early
childhood teachers should sing songs, say rhymes, use finger plays, and encourage a little
nonsense talk now and then with children.
Digital play - ANS the play that can come from educational apps and media. Mobile
technologies and educational apps create a new context for the development of oral language
comprehension abilities and skills.
What are the elements within the CROWD prompt, and how would you use the CROWD prompt
when sharing a children's picture book with a class? - ANS Complete prompts: Leave a blank
at the end of a sentence for children to fill in. (ex: Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of
_______ .)
Recall prompts: Encourage prompts to remember what happened.
(ex: The little red hen went to make some bread. Do you remember what happened when she
asked for some help?)
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Answers (Language and Literacy)
Oral language comprehension - ANS is defined as the speaking and listening skills used for
understanding oral language. (Skills represented in listening comprehension in semantics,
syntax, inference, and memory.)
listening comprehension - ANS understanding what one hears.
Definitional Vocabulary - ANS where children actually can explain word meanings.
syntax - ANS how sentences are constructed (grammar)
language experience approach - ANS teachers use a shared experience to write a text with
students.
substantive conversation - ANS a form of talk adults can use to engage children in extended
dialogues.
vocabulary - ANS body of words known by a person. Organized into two kinds of vocabulary.
What is the definition between receptive vocabulary and expressive vocabulary? -
ANS Receptive vocabulary is what you hear and read.
Expressive vocabulary is what you speak and write
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, Interactive talk - ANS small conversations and short discussions between adult and child.
Follow the child's lead and create joint attention-most useful with infants and toddlers.
Recast child talk to enhance vocabulary and language complexity
Dialogic reading - ANS interactive, sustained conversation between an adult and children
about a book's content.
Role play - ANS dramatic technique that promotes language skills. Can begin with real life
situations that provide opportunities to practice language in different situations, such as in
restaurants, grocery stores, and hospitals.
Sociodramatic play - ANS when students engage in play, they are building their oral language
skills. The oral language demands of social play are huge and linguistically challenging for most
children.
wordplay - ANS engaging students in the playing with sounds. The reason why early
childhood teachers should sing songs, say rhymes, use finger plays, and encourage a little
nonsense talk now and then with children.
Digital play - ANS the play that can come from educational apps and media. Mobile
technologies and educational apps create a new context for the development of oral language
comprehension abilities and skills.
What are the elements within the CROWD prompt, and how would you use the CROWD prompt
when sharing a children's picture book with a class? - ANS Complete prompts: Leave a blank
at the end of a sentence for children to fill in. (ex: Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of
_______ .)
Recall prompts: Encourage prompts to remember what happened.
(ex: The little red hen went to make some bread. Do you remember what happened when she
asked for some help?)
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