Reading and Writing in the Early Years
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Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental principles and developmental stages of reading and writing in early childhood. It examines how young children acquire literacy skills, including phonemic awareness, vocabulary development, comprehension, and emergent writing techniques. Students will investigate various instructional strategies, assessment methods, and resources that support children's literacy in diverse early learning environments. Emphasis is placed on creating supportive, engaging, and inclusive classroom settings that foster a love of reading and writing from an early age, as well as the roles families and communities play in childrens literacy development.
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Early Childhood Experiences in Language Arts Early Literacy 11th Edition by Jeanne
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M. Machado
Chapter 1: Beginnings of Communication
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Q1) The termgaze couplingcan be defined as Answer: infant-mother extended eye contact
Q2) Providing infants with soft,safe writing tools
A)is necessary for early drawing experience and increases intelligence.
B)speeds motor development.
C)is thought not to be developmentally appropriate.
D)will require adult supervision.
Answer: D
Q3) Cognitive science,an evolving field of study,unites psychology,philosophy,linguistics,computer science,and neuroscience.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Building infant IQ isn't possible at 3 months of age.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Tasks of the Toddler
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Q1) The best time to read a picture book to a toddler is when she is out of control.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Large,chunky crayons may be hard for toddlers to hold,so provide standard-sized ones.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) It is a good idea to establish a special reading time during the toddler's day and rarely read at other times.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) If a toddler points to objects in picture books,the best professional response would be to nod or smile,indicating your approval.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Preschool Years
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Q1) A child just beginning to use forms of the verb to be is probably a A)two-year-old.
B)three-year-old.
C)four-year-old.
D)none of these answers
Answer: A
Q2) Besides learning new words during the preschool years,the child establishes links between words and concepts.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Preschoolers use self talk to
A)influence others
B)keep some of their ideas a secret
C)direct their actions.
D)communicate new ideas to others.
Answer: C
Q4) When brain synapses are "pruned," they
Answer: are deleted from memory because of weak,poorly reinforced connections.
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Chapter 4: Understanding Differences
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Q1) A learning disability in language arts refers to significant difficulties in A)listening.
B)speaking.
C)reading or writing.
D)all of these answers.
Q2) In the United States,Standard English is the common language of educated people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss your opinion concerning whether young second language learners should wait until their home language is well developed before learning English.
Q4) Over fifty percent of preschoolers that are true stutterers have family members who stutter.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Second-language learners may imitate the intonation of speech in the new language before trying to speak the words.
A)True B)False
Q6) Language delay may occur in what areas of language development?
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Chapter 5: Achieving Language and Literacy Goals
Through Program Planning
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Q1) Critics of standards for early childhood centers mention A)a curricula's only aim is to help children past tests.
B)standards tend to increase teacher flexibility.
C)they effect teacher pay and increase union membership.
D)none of the above
Q2) Theme instruction may
A)engage children in sensory activities.
B)focus on integrating language with speech,writing,listening,and reading.
C)equire teacher planning and preparation to gather materials and set up the classroom.
D)all of the above
Q3) Many philosophical positions are represented in the curricula of U.S.preschools.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some educators fear that the standardized testing of preschoolers may lead to a "one approach fits all" type of teaching.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Describe steps a teacher might take to design a planning web for a theme of study on monkeys.
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Chapter 6: Promoting Language and Literacy
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Q1) If preschoolers are arguing over the right way to say something grammatically
A)let them work it out or ask you about it.
B)step in and ask if they want your opinion.
C)make a note to emphasize the grammatically correct form during a later activity.
D)all the above
Q2) Some educators have attempted to train children in the art of appropriate and sustained pretend play.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To handle a child's interruption of adults or other children during group discussions,the text suggests
A)accepting the child's comment and discussing it then or later.
B)reminding the child about raising his hand.
C)some teachers accept this behavior as natural for preschoolers.
D)all of these answers.
Q4) Teachers should keep their thoughts to themselves because sharing them often confuses young children.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Developing Listening Skills
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Q1) Recordings for children can be useful tools in a classroom but require
A)an evaluation of content by a teacher or administrator.
B)multiple listeners using the same media at the same time.
C)preliminary teacher supervision.
D)an evaluation of content by a teacher or administrator and preliminary teacher supervision.
Q2) Many children experiencing difficulty in learning to read cannot hear sound sequences in words.
A)True
B)False
Q3) With practice listening can improve.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Others facial expressions provide clues to the sounds they make while speaking.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A sound that may sound frightening to one child may sound pleasant to another child.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Children and Books
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Q1) A child who makes a big clay dog after hearing the picture book Clifford the Big Red Dog
A)may be symbolizing the experience.
B)is trying to cope with the experience.
C)may be afraid of dogs and is working out his fear.
D)is looking for attention.
Q2) 2 and 3 year olds are more concerned with the characters they encounter in books than 4 year olds.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A little over 75 percent of families read to their 3-5 year olds daily.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe how a teacher might build child comprehension when reading a book.
Q5) Children's comments following a read-along with the teacher most likely will be about
Q6) Alphabet books may be interesting to preschoolers because most have learned the "Alphabet Song."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: StoryTelling
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Q1) A good storyteller can't hold its audience as well as a flashing,colorful,animated child's TV program.
A)True
B)False
Q2) It helps to be close to your audience during storytelling.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The plot of the story is the structure of story action.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most stories have a problem to be solved.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Early childhood teachers should share stories from their own ethnic and cultural background.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Pacing a story at the right speed for listeners is a storytelling skill.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Poetry
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Q1) Rhyme does not have to be emphasized when presenting a poem to young children.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Poetry types include
A)free verse.
B)nonfiction.
C)limerick.
D)both free verse and limerick.
Q3) "Diddle,diddle,dumpling" demonstrates both repetition of consonant sounds and alliteration.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Children's experiences with rhyme and rhyming have no relationship to their ease in learning to read.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Some poetry is used to promote a child's feeling of his own competency.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Name three classic children's nursery songs containing rhyming words.
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Chapter 11: Language Growth Through Flannel Boards, puppetry, and Dramatization
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Q1) There is one preparatory step that could embarrass a teacher when telling a flannel board story besides perhaps forgetting parts of the story.This is?
Q2) What attracts young children's attention quickly in flannel board presentations?
Q3) Telling a flannel board story and placing and moving story pieces involves visual imagery.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Flannel board set pieces made for child use are
A)a lot of work and destroyed quickly.
B)vehicles children use to relive their experiences.
C)best if at least 12 inches tall.
D)none of these answers.
Q5) In telling a flannel board story,the teacher might
A)use a funny voice.
B)memorize lines.
C)use sounds or noises when they are part of the story.
D)all of these answers.
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Q6) Educators find flannel board presentations are especially valuable for second language learners,why?
Chapter 12: Realizing Speaker Goals
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Q1) Teachers who make inappropriate and irrelevant comments to children's comments and questions are unprofessional.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The key to promoting children's oral language skill is a teacher's listening skill.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Dance and drama can't be considered a symbolic or sign system.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A preschool child able to express himself well and who listens well will probably find these skills aid his progress in kindergarten.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A child is exhibiting communicative competence if he says he regrets an action he has taken.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 13: Group Times
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Q1) Name the child self-regulation skills that are especially important to kindergarten teachers at group time.
Q2) Recognizing each child by name at circle time is unnecessary.
A)True B)False
Q3) Sitting for an extended period at circle time causes wiggling.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe what an ideal language or literacy building group time would be like for both the teacher and children.
Q5) Leaving one group activity and moving in an orderly fashion to the next is called A)passing.
B)shifting.
C)transitioning.
D)proceeding.
Q6) What might a teacher do when she senses children are starting to wiggle and act restless at circle time?
Q7) What are five characteristics of successful circle times?
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Chapter 14: Print-Early Knowledge and Emerging Interest
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Q1) Advocates of brain-based instructional methods believe young children should have wooden,plastic or other three dimensional letter shapes to explore.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The alphabet principle involves an awareness that spoken language can be analyzed into
A)sequences of syllables.
B)phonemes.
C)strings of separate words.
D)all of these answers.
Q3) When left-handed children are using writing tools,teachers
A)hand them things on the right side of their body.
B)show them how to use their right hand.
C)accept the child's hand preference.
D)point out that it is easy to print right-handed.
Q4) There is a stage in the child's print awareness development where strings of letter-like forms appear in linear fashion in their artwork.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Reading and Preschoolers
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Q1) Explain which method of teaching reading is best and why you feel this is so.
Q2) A preschool child can be designated a reader when he A)writes a word.
B)sounds out a word and is almost correct.
C)has both phonemic and phonological awareness.
D)understands and/or acts appropriately when looking at a written word.
Q3) How would you describe a child's disposition to read?
Q4) Lots of play builds a foundation for learning to read with ease and understanding what is read.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Preschoolers' knowledge of alphabet letters is a good predictor of early reading achievement.
A)True
B)False
Q6) When a child dislikes a certain picture book
A)it diminishes his positive attitude toward books.
B)he may not handle the book with care.
C)his school shouldn't purchase it for their collection.
D)it is okay.
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Chapter 16: Developing a Literacy Environment
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Q1) Some computer programs have improved children's speech skills successfully.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Asking preschoolers for permission to display their work is a good idea.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Children and adolescents that play games excessively on the computer are usually well adjusted socially are students that excel academically.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Of great concern to most educators is the idea that electronic and digital media use A)may affect children's brains.
B)is that time spent in front of screens may have negative consequences.
C)might introduce unsuitable material to children if programs are not screened by teachers.
D)all the above.
Q5) There are only a few uses for a teacher's collected picture file.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: The Family-Center Partnership
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Q1) A family's relationship and interaction with their local community library is not considered to be important for their children's literacy development.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Children younger than age two may be at risk if they watch television extensively.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Federal funds for early childhood care and education help
A)educate parents about children's learning.
B)strengthen early learning for young children.
C)create new centers for family supportive assistance.
D)all of these answers
Q4) Video games may be better at promoting violent child behavior than the movies or television.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe what advice you would give a parent concerning a home reading center.
Q6) Family literacy programs can be more successful when?
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