Deck 7: Developing Listening Skills

Question 1

Teachers try to verbally tie a new school activity to a child's prior learning or experience.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Some educators differ on the appropriateness of exposing children to written alphabet letters during the preschool year.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Having to memorize the entire alphabet is an appropriate child activity for preschoolers.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Children who are good listeners usually do not question what was said.

Question 5

Teachers sound ridiculous when they enjoy playing with language tongue twisters.

Question 6

Teachers continually imparting information may promote passive and withdrawn child behavior.

Question 7

Good listeners hear everything without filtering out distractions.

Question 8

A sign of good listening is responding quickly.

Question 9

When two children who are close friends sit together during a teacher story,this may diminish their listening ability.

Question 10

When a teacher mentions a child by name,she usually captures that child's attention and listening focus.

Question 11

Alphabet letter activities are more appropriate for kindergartners than for preschoolers.

Question 12

A curious child may focus on what speakers are saying and/or what is new or novel in the classroom.

Question 13

Emotional problems at home may interfere with a child's ability to listen at school.

Question 14

A child who repeats to the teacher exactly what the teacher has said may be trying to concentrate on what was said.

Question 15

When bored,child listening drifts.

Question 16

Phonological awareness is a sub-skill of phonemic awareness.

Question 17

Listening for words that begin with a specific initial phoneme is appropriate for some preschoolers.

Question 18

Early childhood teachers may have experienced a number of teachers during their own schooling that had poor listening skills.

Question 19

Phonological awareness is believed to be predictive of a child's early reading success.

Question 20

When one is able to rhyme,this has little to do with phonemic awareness.

Question 21

Hearing and listening are the same.

Question 22

Computer programs can effectively teach phonetic awareness.

Question 23

Sound intensity is its degree of force,strength,or energy.

Question 24

Social interaction and successful learning is affected by both hearing ability and listening ability.

Question 25

Appreciative listening includes listening to music.

Question 26

Reading ability doesn't involve listening skill.

Question 27

There are different types of listening.

Question 28

Early phonetic instruction guarantees later literacy success.

Question 29

Listening centers can include a recording of a teacher reading a poem.

Question 30

Some words have certain letter sounds that make them easier to hear than other words.

Question 31

Creating a desire in a child to want to listen helps the child listen.

Question 32

A teacher would know a child is a good listener if he enjoys pleasant sounds.

Question 33

Listening is a mental process that involves discriminating.

Question 34

Although listening may seem passive,it involves cognitive skills.

Question 35

With practice listening can improve.

Question 36

Sounds have both volume and quality.

Question 37

Silence has meaning.

Question 38

Others facial expressions provide clues to the sounds they make while speaking.

Question 39

Listening well is a learned skill or habit.

Question 40

One comprehends about 80 percent of what one hears.

Question 41

Finding errors in another's speech can be a practice ofdiscriminate listening.

Question 42

Children at risk for early reading problems may not be good at hearing sounds.

Question 43

Most words contain a blend of phonemes.

Question 44

Teacher eye contact can

A)​encourage listening.
B)​discourage listening in most children.
C)​scare children.
D)​make children uncomfortable.

Question 45

Which of the following typifies good listening skill?

A)​being able to hear everything in a room
B)​watching a speaker's face
C)​mimicking
D)​explaining cause and effect

Question 46

Phonological awareness in children is either fully accomplished or not present at all.

Question 47

When working with a child with hearing loss,a teacher should

A)​gestures and visual clues to supplement his/her speech.
B)​keep a normal tone of voice and volume.
C)​have the child sit up front where it is easiest to see the instruction.
D)​all of the above.

Question 48

One way for a teacher to gauge whether a small group of children is listening to what is going on is to

A)​ring a bell.
B)​lower her voice.
C)​speak in a higher volume.
D)​pan the group with her eyes for signs.

Question 49

Phonemic awareness is a sub skill of phonological awareness.

Question 50

Phillipe needs to stop pushing.One technique a teacher can use is to

A)​physically ignore him.
B)​say his name and state what is expected.
C)​say,"Please don't do it again."
D)​say,"Enough already."

Question 51

A teacher verbalization recommended for use during small group time is

A)​"Raise your hand if you have something to tell."
B)​"Each of us will have a turn."
C)​"If you don't want a turn to talk,say 'pass'."
D)​all of these answers.

Question 52

Teacher animation can both promote and detract from a child listening ability.

Question 53

Providing phonetic instruction or phonemic awareness activities to preschoolers is developmentally appropriate.

Question 54

Many children experiencing difficulty in learning to read cannot hear sound sequences in words.

Question 55

A sound that may sound frightening to one child may sound pleasant to another child.

Question 56

A large number of words in the English language have only one phoneme.

Question 57

Among the recommended ways to provide a good setting for listening at group times is to

A)​have the other children go in the yard.
B)​choose an area away from distracting sounds.
C)​use screens,dividers,or bookcases between activity areas.
D)​both choose an area away from distracting sounds and use screens,dividers,or bookcases between activity areas.

Question 58

Experts suggest when speaking to a child with a hearing loss it is best to increase your voice volume to very loud.

Question 59

Educators try to gain attention in some way before an important instruction is given.

Question 60

Activities mentioned in the text to promote phonemic awareness include

A)​reading nursery rhymes.​
B)​discussing alliteration.
C)​making alphabet books.
D)​all of these answers.

Question 61

Television use in preschool classrooms is

A)​recommended.
B)​a good way to develop listening skills.
C)​a resource for practicing auditory discrimination.
D)​none of these answers.

Question 62

When it comes to the listening abilities of boys and girls,

A)​they have close to the same skill level.
B)​research has verified that girls are superior in creative listening.
C)​research has verified that boys are skilled in appreciative listening.
D)​none of these answers.

Question 63

Celeste,a four-year-old,monopolizes group times and rambles on and on until the other children get restless.The text suggests

A)​telling Celeste to keep it short.
B)​using an egg timer.
C)​saying,"When your friends are restless,you need to stop."
D)​both telling Celeste to keep it short and using an egg timer.

Question 64

Probably the best thing a teacher can do to give a child the idea that teacher is listening to what the child is saying is to

A)​get down to the child's eye level and look in his eyes.
B)​say "I'm listening."
C)​tell other children near to be quiet so you can hear Angelo.
D)​all the above

Question 65

In listening centers,one usually finds

A)​headsets.
B)​that they are partitioned off from other room areas.
C)​commercially developed products.
D)​all of these answers.

Question 66

A part of a word such as -ame or -ay is called

A)​an inset.
B)​an onset.
C)​a rime.
D)​a rhyme.

Question 67

Pick the item in Column A that best matches an item in Column B

Question 68

The highest grade level of information that a child understands when it is read to the child is the child's

A)​receptive listening level.
B)​listening comprehension level.
C)​reading comprehension level.
D)​purposeful listening level.

Question 69

Phonetic awareness

A)​boosts reading comprehension.
B)​helps children decode words.
C)​helps children attend to and manipulate speech sounds.
D)​all the above

Question 70

Some experts believe that phonological development progresses in stages;these are

A)​from simple,complex to complete.
B)​awareness of words,then word parts,then knowing syllables have sounds.
C)​hearing words,hearing sentences,and hearing meaning.
D)​recognizing words,recognizing syllables,and understanding phonemes.

Question 71

Phonemic awareness instruction helps

A)​at-risk children only.
B)​normally developing readers only.
C)​preschool children who can segment phonemes but not those who cannot.
D)​none of these answers.

Question 72

In a quality early childhood center listening

A)​is both passive and receptive.
B)​involves active thinking and interpretation.
C)​experiences for children are varied.
D)​all the above

Question 73

Phonemic awareness

A)​aids reading comprehension.
B)​helps children decode words.
C)​is an instructional goal that involves teaching sounds.
D)​all of these answers.

Question 74

The ability to blend phonemes

A)​is a skill necessary for kindergarten success.
B)​is not a skill that is necessary for reading success.
C)​helps children decode words.
D)​may confuse preschoolers who see no use for the skill.

Question 75

The text recommends that some type of ______________ be used when group attention is needed.

A)​music
B)​sound
C)​signal or distinctive sound
D)​natural and clean voice

Question 76

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.

Question 77

The use of preschool listening games is

A)​not recommended.
B)​a method of instruction.
C)​recommended as long as the game contains a competitive feature.
D)​all of these answers.

Question 78

The songs and music teachers offer in their classroom

A)​are full of appreciative listening features.
B)​develop an awareness of pitch.
C)​develop an awareness of intonation and rhythmic patterns.
D)​all the above

Question 79

When it comes to children's phonemic awareness skill,

A)​the majority of children develop it without direct instruction.
B)​teachers prefer to teach it by direct instruction.
C)​it typically begins developing in five-year-olds.
D)​it develops before phonetic awareness.

Question 80

Discriminating between sounds to determine their pitch,intensity and tempo in a teacher planned activity is planned to increase a child's

A)​ability to enjoy music.
B)​listening comprehension.
C)​pre-reading skill.
D)​auditory perception skill.