Practice Test Flashcards
Behavior that reflects an infant’s development of understanding of object permanence?
Searching for a toy under a blanket
Erik Erikson’s theory of development hypothesizes that, at the beginning of the elementary school years, the primary conflict facing young children is that of
Industry vs, inferiority
What age span do young children typically first begin to demonstrate goal-drirected actions?
0-2 years
What is the most important health and safety concept to address in kindergarten
Procedures for crossing streets, parking lots, and driveways and bus safety
Most appropriate rational for team approach when assessing young children
Coordination of assessment results from a variety of disciplines increasing the effectiveness of instruction
Ethical responsibility of a preschool teacher regarding the assessment of young children
Respecting the privacy of the data that are collected
Children of preschool age feel most secure in educational settings
Offer a balance of calm and active learning experiences in a predictable and orderly environmnet
Best strategy for using creative movement to support vocabulary development
Commenting during movement activities on the movements made by the children, using expressive language to describe the movments and mood they create
Preschool teacher would like to improve listening skills during morning circle
Incorportation activities that require active listening (e.g., identifying the sources of varies sounds, listening for words that start with a specific letter)
Two students have language delays and who tend to speak with peers and adults only necessary. What strategy would be most effective for increasings the student’s oral language
Setting up small-group activities on a regular basis that require students to talk to one another in order to complete assignments
Most effective strategy for a kindergarten teacher to use in promoting communication skills of a student who is an English Language Learner
Facilitating the student’s full participation in activities with peers (e.g., exploring sand-table materials, role-playing in the class post office)
English language Learners using sentences that include both English words and words in the student’s primary language. Which of the following would be the teacher’s most appropriate response on this observation?
Ignoring the student’s switching between languages and encouraging the student’s efforts to communicate with others
Young children’s development of a large oral vocabulary is likely to support their future reading development most directly by
Preparing them to comprehend words encountered in print
Toddler teacher regularly engages children in oral word games and encourages their spontaneous generation of nonsense words and sentences that rhyme. These practices lay the foundations of formal reading and writing instruction primarily by
Fostering children’s enjoyment of language play
Highest risk of experiencing difficulties in learning to read
A student with limited oral language development
Assessment strategies would provide the best measure of a student’s mastery of the alphabetic principle
Having the student read aloud a list of phonetically regular nonsense words
Reinforcing explicit phonics instruction
Writing independenty using invented spelling
Assess students sight word vocabulary. To gather this information the teacher would appropriately engage each student in reading
Published listed of high-frequency words
Poems chorally and singing songs are ikey to be most effective for promoting students’ ability to recorgnize and respond to which of following literary elements
Rhyme and meter
Most important factor in ELL ability to develop writing skills in English
The student’s level of literacy development in the primary language
How the use of invented spellings of English worlds reflects a stage of writing development in English Language Learners
Invented spellings indicate an awareness of letter-sound correspondence
In a writing program for emergent writigers, a preschool teacher’s primary emphasis should be on encouraging the children to
Write often and for a variety of real purpose
Best strategy for promoting writing development in four- year- old children
Placing writing materials throughout the classroom’s various learning centers and play areas
Contibrute to young children’s understanding of the mathematical concept of pattern
Practicing rhythmic dance moves
A child makes a scribble with crayon and tells the teacher “This is my kitty” What is the most developmentally approach of the teacher?
Expressing interest in and enjoyment of drawing
A kindergarten teacher is planning a unit on dental hygiene. What is the most appropriate student learning goal for the unit
Demonstrate proper techniques for brushing teeth
Which of the following behaviors by a child demonstrates an understanding of one-to-one correspondence
Counting a group of ten objects by touching each object while saying the number aloud
The Constitution of the United States delegates which of the following roles to the executive branch o the U.S. goverment
Negotiating Treaties
Pictorial Calendar benefits students’ learning primarily by
Providing meaningful reference points to help students visualize basic time concepts
Classroom jobs promote students’ understanding of
Community
A characteristic of living things that distinguishes them from nonliving things is that ony living things
Are made up of cells
Magnifying glasses would b most useful for helping kindergarteners observe
The parts of an insect’s mouth
Giving three-year-olds access to water or sand tables and a variety of containers would most effectively promote their early exploration of which of the following physical science concepts
Properties of materials
Early childhood teacher serving in the role of advocate for a preschool program
The teacher meets with the district superintendent to present data in support of increasing the preschool program’s budget
Role of childhood teachers to advocate for young children and their families
Collaborating with community-based services and instituations
The student writing sample exemplifies whiat stage of spelling development
I thot he racked the leves all ready!
(I thought he raked the leaves already!)
Transitional
A first grade student wants to write about a trip he took to a park over the weekend but he is unsure about what to write. What is an effective prewriting strategy for the teacher to use with this student?
Having the student audio-recored his thoughts about the trip
