Deck 13: The Language Domain

Question 1

What are "netizens"?

A) Daily messages placed on a white board by the teacher for children to decipher.
B) Short videos produced by children.
C) Citizenship awards given to children who have been models to others in terms of the number of books read during the year.
D) Children growing up in an era when becoming technoliterate is of primary importance.

Answer 1

Children growing up in an era when becoming technoliterate is of primary importance.

Question 2

What does it take for a child to automatically read a word in a sentence without sounding it out?

A) The task must become associative, rather than cognitive in nature.
B) The task must become cognitive, rather than associative in nature.
C) The task involves first an associative process and then becomes cognitive.
D) In reading, all words must always be sounded out.

Answer 2

The task must become associative, rather than cognitive in nature.

Question 3

Which of the following (note underlined parts) is indicative of a rime?

A) $\begin{array}{llcc} \text { F}\underline{ \text {at } }&\text {h}\underline{ \text {at } } \\\end{array}$

B) $\begin{array}{llcc} \text { T } \underline{\text {wo } } & \text { t }\underline{ \text {oo }}\\\end{array}$

C) $\begin{array}{llcc} \underline{\text {Fl } }\text {at }& \underline{ \text { fr }}\text {at } \\\end{array}$

D) $\begin{array}{llcc} \text {T } \underline{ \text { oo }} & \text { th } \underline{\text {rough }} \\\end{array}$

Answer 3

$\begin{array}{llcc} \text { F}\underline{ \text {at } }&\text {h}\underline{ \text {at } } \\\end{array}$

Question 4

Which of the following would be an example of an expository text for young children?

A) A book of poems
B) An information book about squirrels
C) The book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
D) A book of sing-along songs

Question 5

According to research, what is one of the single best predictors of an entering kindergarten child's eventual reading achievement?

A) Ability to sing the ABC song
B) Liking to be read to
C) Knowledge of the alphabet
D) Receptive vocabulary
E) Having an educated parent

Question 6

Which of the following would constitute an example of alliteration?

A) The beautiful moon rose over the sleepy town.
B) Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
C) Susy sells seashells down by the seashore.
D) Teensy, Weensy Spider went up the waterspout.

Question 7

Which of the following is the best definition of phonological awareness?

A) Awareness that the speech stream consists of a sequence of sounds or phonemes.
B) Understanding that oral language can be broken into smaller units and manipulated.
C) Awareness of the smallest unit of sound.
D) Ability to follow verbal instructions.

Question 8

Which of the following does the "Word Wall" strategy involve?

A) The selection and posting of 5-10 high frequency words per week.
B) The teaching of spelling patterns in unfamiliar words.
C) The alphabetic listing of difficult spelling words.
D) Having children go around the room to read environmental print.

Question 9

Which of the following would NOT be considered a red flag in speech and language development?

A) The child does not respond to "no" or changes in tone of voice between 0-3 months.
B) The child does not answer simple "who," "what," and "where" questions or be understood by people outside the family between 1 and 2 years of age.
C) The child cannot understand differences in meaning or string together two or three words between 2-3 years.
D) The child has not developed correct syntax and pronoun usage by 2 years of age.

Question 10

Which is the best definition of emergent literacy?

A) It is the entire process of becoming a fluent user of literacy.
B) It is the earliest phase in becoming literate.
C) It is the period in which a child begins to decode words.
D) It is the final and fluent stage of literacy.

Question 11

In learning to write, which stage appears first?

A) Alphabetic
B) Semantic
C) Consonant
D) Phonological

Question 12

When should we begin teaching children how to edit their written work?

A) When they are writing a number of power words and can construct a sentence.
B) In third grade, when they can use a dictionary.
C) As soon as they are writing words so they do not develop inappropriate spelling strategies.
D) When they are doing process writing.

Question 13

What is the first indication of emergent literacy in a young child?

A) Child uses a single letter for a word
B) Child is scribbling
C) Child uses letter-like forms
D) Child writes letter strings

Question 14

What is the relationship between sounds and letters in the written language known as?

A) Phonological awareness
B) Graphemes
C) Phonics
D) Phonemic awareness

Question 15

When a child yells out, "McDonald's!" at the sign of the golden arches but cannot yet decode, he is in what word knowledge stage?

A) Orthographic
B) Alphabetic
C) Analytic
D) Logographic

Question 16

Which of the following skills are covered in the CCSS English Language Arts?

A) Decoding, independent reading, balanced literacy, and writing workshop
B) Leaving spaces between words, capitalization, punctuation, and methods of instruction
C) Phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, alphabetic awareness, and expert tutoring
D) Reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and media and technology

Question 17

What is the last skill to be acquired on the continuum of phonological awareness?

A) Rhyming
B) Writing fluency
C) Phonemic awareness
D) Balanced literacy

Question 18

The time it takes for a child to become functional in a new language depends greatly on:

A) The teacher's skill
B) Amount of exposure to the new language
C) Parents' ability to speak the new language
D) The difficulty of the new language

Question 19

The most effective teachers:

A) Take their cues from the children they are teaching
B) Take their cues from the grade level skills children ought to have
C) Take their cues from the tests that children must take at each grade level
D) Take their cues from the parents of the children they are teaching

Question 20

Which of the following is true?

A) The American Academy of Pediatrics has indicated that some limited screen time is developmentally appropriate for children less than two years of age.
B) NAEYC does not recommend the use of interactive media in the classroom for young children.
C) Public communication is dominated by linguistic rather than visual modes of learning.
D) Public communication is dominated by visual rather than linguistic modes of learning.

Question 21

Language can be used for a variety of purposes. Name at least 4 of those purposes.

Question 22

How is the quality of language development affected by children's early experiences?

Question 23

It is important to emphasize learning goals rather than performance goals and drill with all children; however, this is particularly true when working with second-language learners. Why?

Question 24

Name 5 ways in which you could create a print-rich environment in your classroom.

Question 25

Describe the connection between oral language and later reading and writing.

Question 26

Children enrolled in educational programs who are ESL, NEP, or LEP are increasing and need active support. Discuss how you would approach the support of these children in your classroom.

Question 27

It has been said that literacy underscores everything that is done in the curriculum. Explain how a child who does not read or write well will be disadvantaged in every other subject area.