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,This exam assesses knowledge across seven core domains:
1. Child Development & Learning (Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Freud;
cognitive, social-emotional, language milestones).
2. Curriculum & Instruction (play-based learning, thematic units,
literacy/math/sciences integration, differentiated strategies).
3. Literacy & Language (phonological/phonemic awareness, stages of
writing/spelling, comprehension strategies, ELL support).
4. Assessment (developmental screenings, norm/criterion-referenced tests,
IEP/IFSP processes, portfolios).
5. Diversity & Inclusion (culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed
practices, family collaboration, disability supports under IDEA).
6. Professionalism (ethical guidelines, Child Find mandates, family
engagement, reflective practice).
7. Content Knowledge (emergent math/science concepts, art/music
development, social studies foundations).
A 2nd grade teacher plans an art activity in which students make paintings using
white tempera paint on black paper. This activity is most likely to help students
develop their understanding of what principle of design? - ANSWER ✔✔- contrast
A kindergarten teacher spends 10 min. each day reading fiction to her students. In
what way could the teacher best use this reading activity to help students develop
an appreciation for the dramatic arts? - ANSWER ✔✔- interpreting the dialogue
and narration of the books with expression and emotion.
Phonological Awareness - ANSWER ✔✔- ability of reader recognize the sound of
spoken language.
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,Phonological Awareness (2) - ANSWER ✔✔- Recognize: how sounds can be
blended, segmented, manipulated. Helps them sound out words.
Phonological Awareness Skills - ANSWER ✔✔-
1. Rhyming and syllabification,
2. blending sounds into words,
3. Identifying the beginning or starting sound of words,
4. Breaking words down into sounds,
5. recognizing small words in bigger words by removing sounds "hear" to ear
Phonemic Awareness - ANSWER ✔✔- The idea words are made up of sounds.
Reader and listener know and can make certain sounds in spoken words.
Phonemic Awareness Tasks - ANSWER ✔✔- Oral: 1. ability to hear rhymes and
alliteration, 2. ability to do oddity tasks (identify differences in set), 3. Ability to
split syllables and blend words, 4. ability to orally segment or count the sounds in a
word, 5 Ability to do phonics manipulation tasks like replace "r" in rose with an 'h"
for hose.
Teaching methods for teaching phonemic awareness - ANSWER ✔✔-
1. clapping syllables in words,
2. distinguishing b/w word and sound,
3. visual cues for students to recognize speaker goes from one sound to another,
4. oral segmentation activities which focus on syllables instead of sounds, singing
familiar songs and replacing key words in it different words, deck of cards with
pictures to sound out the words for the pictures
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, Morphology - ANSWER ✔✔- study of word structure. Students understanding
patterns in words.
Syntax - ANSWER ✔✔- Rules of patterned relationships. Understand the structure
of how sentences are built, beginning of grammar.
Semantics - ANSWER ✔✔- refers to the meaning expressed when words are
arranged in a specific way.
Requirements for teaching phonics - ANSWER ✔✔- students must make the
connection between sound and the letter, sound out each letter until they recognize
they have said the word.
Decoding - ANSWER ✔✔- process readers use to figure out unfamiliar written
words in a text.
Word recognition - ANSWER ✔✔- automatically pronounce and sometimes also
know the meaning of a word
To decode - ANSWER ✔✔- means to change communication signals into a
message.
Developmental Stages of Spelling - ANSWER ✔✔- Pre-phonemic spelling, early
phonemic spelling, letter-naming spelling, transitional spelling.
Pre-phonemic spelling - ANSWER ✔✔- children know that letters stand for a
message
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,This exam assesses knowledge across seven core domains:
1. Child Development & Learning (Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Freud;
cognitive, social-emotional, language milestones).
2. Curriculum & Instruction (play-based learning, thematic units,
literacy/math/sciences integration, differentiated strategies).
3. Literacy & Language (phonological/phonemic awareness, stages of
writing/spelling, comprehension strategies, ELL support).
4. Assessment (developmental screenings, norm/criterion-referenced tests,
IEP/IFSP processes, portfolios).
5. Diversity & Inclusion (culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed
practices, family collaboration, disability supports under IDEA).
6. Professionalism (ethical guidelines, Child Find mandates, family
engagement, reflective practice).
7. Content Knowledge (emergent math/science concepts, art/music
development, social studies foundations).
A 2nd grade teacher plans an art activity in which students make paintings using
white tempera paint on black paper. This activity is most likely to help students
develop their understanding of what principle of design? - ANSWER ✔✔- contrast
A kindergarten teacher spends 10 min. each day reading fiction to her students. In
what way could the teacher best use this reading activity to help students develop
an appreciation for the dramatic arts? - ANSWER ✔✔- interpreting the dialogue
and narration of the books with expression and emotion.
Phonological Awareness - ANSWER ✔✔- ability of reader recognize the sound of
spoken language.
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,Phonological Awareness (2) - ANSWER ✔✔- Recognize: how sounds can be
blended, segmented, manipulated. Helps them sound out words.
Phonological Awareness Skills - ANSWER ✔✔-
1. Rhyming and syllabification,
2. blending sounds into words,
3. Identifying the beginning or starting sound of words,
4. Breaking words down into sounds,
5. recognizing small words in bigger words by removing sounds "hear" to ear
Phonemic Awareness - ANSWER ✔✔- The idea words are made up of sounds.
Reader and listener know and can make certain sounds in spoken words.
Phonemic Awareness Tasks - ANSWER ✔✔- Oral: 1. ability to hear rhymes and
alliteration, 2. ability to do oddity tasks (identify differences in set), 3. Ability to
split syllables and blend words, 4. ability to orally segment or count the sounds in a
word, 5 Ability to do phonics manipulation tasks like replace "r" in rose with an 'h"
for hose.
Teaching methods for teaching phonemic awareness - ANSWER ✔✔-
1. clapping syllables in words,
2. distinguishing b/w word and sound,
3. visual cues for students to recognize speaker goes from one sound to another,
4. oral segmentation activities which focus on syllables instead of sounds, singing
familiar songs and replacing key words in it different words, deck of cards with
pictures to sound out the words for the pictures
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, Morphology - ANSWER ✔✔- study of word structure. Students understanding
patterns in words.
Syntax - ANSWER ✔✔- Rules of patterned relationships. Understand the structure
of how sentences are built, beginning of grammar.
Semantics - ANSWER ✔✔- refers to the meaning expressed when words are
arranged in a specific way.
Requirements for teaching phonics - ANSWER ✔✔- students must make the
connection between sound and the letter, sound out each letter until they recognize
they have said the word.
Decoding - ANSWER ✔✔- process readers use to figure out unfamiliar written
words in a text.
Word recognition - ANSWER ✔✔- automatically pronounce and sometimes also
know the meaning of a word
To decode - ANSWER ✔✔- means to change communication signals into a
message.
Developmental Stages of Spelling - ANSWER ✔✔- Pre-phonemic spelling, early
phonemic spelling, letter-naming spelling, transitional spelling.
Pre-phonemic spelling - ANSWER ✔✔- children know that letters stand for a
message
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