Final Exam Review for Chapters 1-5
Question & Answers ( update)
Chapter 1 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔
What is the obvious connection between oral and written language?
A. Text
B. Symbol
C. Context cue
D. Vocabulary - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔D. Vocabulary
Children become skilled at contextualized language by all of the
following activities except which activity?
A. Listening to stories
B. Engaging in conversations
C. Creating fantasy worlds
D. Providing explanations - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔D. Providing
explanations.
What are the school-based definitions of "language" and "literacy"?
A. Language refers to speaking and literacy refers to writing.
B. Language refers to symbols for transmitting meaning and literacy
refers to the abilities to create meaning.
C. Language refers to oral language and literacy refers to reading and
writing.
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D. Language refers to contextualized language and literacy refers to
decontextualized language. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔B. Language
refers to symbols for transmitting meaning and literacy refers to the
abilities to create meaning.
4. Standards are important to teachers and children for all of the
following reasons except which reason?
A. They set expectations for children's achievement.
B. They tell teachers which specific curriculum to use.
C. They guide teachers' decision-making about what to teach.
D. They provide teachers with information on how to assess children -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔B. They tell teachers which specific
curriculum to use.
5. Which statement is correct about the teacher's role in the emergent
literacy approach to learning?
A. The teacher's role is to provide the materials, experiences, and
interactions that enable children to learn to read and write.
B. The teacher's role is to provide direct instruction on skills such as
alphabet recognition and letter-sound relationships.
C. The teacher's role is to couple instruction on vocabulary with
storybook reading.
D. The teacher's role is to provide instruction in small groups so that all
children have a chance to respond. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A.
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Question & Answers ( update)
The teacher's role is to provide the materials, experiences, and
interactions that enable
6. Which activity would you not expect to observe in a classroom where
the teacher's approach to literacy learning is the Scientifically Based
Reading Research (SBRR)?
A. After reading a big book, the teacher inviting children to put
highlighting tape over all the letter 'a' in the title.
B. Alphabet charts with a poem for each letter that contains many
examples of a "target letter".
C. A print-rich classroom with a large number of print models (e.g.,
children's books, charts, play-related print).
D. The teacher engaged with a small group of children playing a game
of matching high-frequency words. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔C. A
print-rich classroom with a large number of print models (e.g.,
children's books, charts, play-related print).
7. Read the following description of an activity in a preschool
classroom.
At Circle Time, the teacher and children briefly engage in a sound play
activity. They touch their head and say /k/, their knees and say /a/, and
their toes and say /t/. The teacher says, "What word do those three
sounds make?" No child responds. "Let's say those sounds a little
faster." /k/ (head) . . . /a/ (knees) . . . /t/ (toes). "What word do those
three sounds make?" Again there is no response. "Let's say those
Question & Answers ( update)
Chapter 1 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔
What is the obvious connection between oral and written language?
A. Text
B. Symbol
C. Context cue
D. Vocabulary - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔D. Vocabulary
Children become skilled at contextualized language by all of the
following activities except which activity?
A. Listening to stories
B. Engaging in conversations
C. Creating fantasy worlds
D. Providing explanations - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔D. Providing
explanations.
What are the school-based definitions of "language" and "literacy"?
A. Language refers to speaking and literacy refers to writing.
B. Language refers to symbols for transmitting meaning and literacy
refers to the abilities to create meaning.
C. Language refers to oral language and literacy refers to reading and
writing.
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Question & Answers ( update)
D. Language refers to contextualized language and literacy refers to
decontextualized language. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔B. Language
refers to symbols for transmitting meaning and literacy refers to the
abilities to create meaning.
4. Standards are important to teachers and children for all of the
following reasons except which reason?
A. They set expectations for children's achievement.
B. They tell teachers which specific curriculum to use.
C. They guide teachers' decision-making about what to teach.
D. They provide teachers with information on how to assess children -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔B. They tell teachers which specific
curriculum to use.
5. Which statement is correct about the teacher's role in the emergent
literacy approach to learning?
A. The teacher's role is to provide the materials, experiences, and
interactions that enable children to learn to read and write.
B. The teacher's role is to provide direct instruction on skills such as
alphabet recognition and letter-sound relationships.
C. The teacher's role is to couple instruction on vocabulary with
storybook reading.
D. The teacher's role is to provide instruction in small groups so that all
children have a chance to respond. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A.
, Final Exam Review for Chapters 1-5
Question & Answers ( update)
The teacher's role is to provide the materials, experiences, and
interactions that enable
6. Which activity would you not expect to observe in a classroom where
the teacher's approach to literacy learning is the Scientifically Based
Reading Research (SBRR)?
A. After reading a big book, the teacher inviting children to put
highlighting tape over all the letter 'a' in the title.
B. Alphabet charts with a poem for each letter that contains many
examples of a "target letter".
C. A print-rich classroom with a large number of print models (e.g.,
children's books, charts, play-related print).
D. The teacher engaged with a small group of children playing a game
of matching high-frequency words. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔C. A
print-rich classroom with a large number of print models (e.g.,
children's books, charts, play-related print).
7. Read the following description of an activity in a preschool
classroom.
At Circle Time, the teacher and children briefly engage in a sound play
activity. They touch their head and say /k/, their knees and say /a/, and
their toes and say /t/. The teacher says, "What word do those three
sounds make?" No child responds. "Let's say those sounds a little
faster." /k/ (head) . . . /a/ (knees) . . . /t/ (toes). "What word do those
three sounds make?" Again there is no response. "Let's say those