Deck 14: Print-Early Knowledge and Emerging Interest

Question 1

Singing the "Alphabet Song" is often a child's first experience with alphabet letters.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Uppercase letters may be easier to learn than lowercase letters.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Without any help from adults and because they are curious,many preschoolers explore alphabet letters on their own.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In kindergarten,teachers print children's names in all uppercase letters.

Question 5

At some point,children understand that print is different from random marks.

Question 6

A print awareness skill involves learning that words are read from the top to the bottom of a page.

Question 7

Children may learn alphabet letter names first and then their shapes.

Question 8

Each child has her own way of remembering the shapes of alphabet letters.

Question 9

Teachers may need to explain to families why a child's early printing attempts are not corrected.

Question 10

Scribbling on paper involves child decision making.

Question 11

It is commonplace for four-year-olds to read a few words.

Question 12

Alphabet books are not developmentally appropriate for preschoolers.

Question 13

It is estimated that half the children entering kindergarten may not have a basic familiarity with print.

Question 14

When first learning to write,children often press down so hard they tear the paper.

Question 15

C-D-y may be an example of invented spelling.

Question 16

Some young preschool children can read common symbols.

Question 17

Interactive and scaffolded writing is a teacher technique to use with three-year-old preschoolers.

Question 18

When painting,children choose the color and kind of lines or marks they make and they gain a sense of autonomy and control over tools.

Question 19

Young children realize that all words have meaning.

Question 20

Early aptitude for writing has been linked to success with reading.

Question 21

Young children may know there are spaces between words.

Question 22

It is not necessary to emphasize that the language arts are interrelated when children are learning to print words.

Question 23

Big letters and little letters are also referred to as alphabet letters in upper and lower case.

Question 24

Child dictation should be edited for correctness.

Question 25

Writing centers in a preschool classroom are places where writing tools and paper are only available to teachers.

Question 26

With computers all around us some children learn about letter shapes from using a computer.

Question 27

It is important to keep all printing that children view in the classroom the same size including print on equipment and furnishings.

Question 28

Alphabet letters appear in preschoolers' drawings because teachers suggest that children print them.

Question 29

Most preschoolers have developed a primitive hypothesis about print even if no one has talked to them about it.

Question 30

Frustrating elements in language games promote child problem solving and makes games enjoyable.

Question 31

If a classroom has a writing center area,the teacher should be in it periodically and devise motivational activities.

Question 32

Preschoolers should observe their teachers' printing letters.

Question 33

It does not matter how quickly and accurately children can name alphabet letters.

Question 34

For many children,an interest in their printed name promotes questions about other alphabet letters.

Question 35

All early childhood programs should explicitly instruct children in the correct way to grip writing tools.

Question 36

Children's names are printed on children's work in the upper right-hand corner.

Question 37

Preschoolers should be acquainted with using print for some useful purpose.

Question 38

Many of children's attempts to print are just exploratory play.

Question 39

There is thought to be a step-by-step understanding and developmental process as a child becomes able to read words by sight or learns to read by using other means.

Question 40

There is a stage in the child's print awareness development where strings of letter-like forms appear in linear fashion in their artwork.

Question 41

Latisha,age four,stops her grandma from entering an exit door next to an "enter" door.You suspect Latisha

A)​has a sight word vocabulary.
B)​is a bossy child.
C)​is afraid of doors.
D)​is way ahead in her oral language development.

Question 42

It is a big step forward when children learn the difference between random marks and alphabet letters.

Question 43

The sounds of speech are not coded in print.

Question 44

Most all of children's early writing is the result of deliberate attempts to write a word.

Question 45

Alphabet letters and numerals both are

A)​representative symbols.
B)​graphic representatives for words.
C)​unique and invented by leading scientists.
D)​none of these answers.

Question 46

There is a point in most young children's lives when they begin to study the fine features of alphabet letters and shapes.

Question 47

Early literacy classrooms are described as

A)​literacy-rich.
B)​print rich.
C)​print-prolific.
D)​all of these answers.

Question 48

Children naturally leap from illiteracy to an understanding of our alphabetic system.

Question 49

A child's early knowledge of print can involve writing a string of marks and making a drawing to tell a story or recreate a happening.

Question 50

Making a printed sign with a child is a print awareness activity.

Question 51

Considering physical growth,preschoolers' printing attempts can be described as

A)​controlled and uniform.
B)​accurate and time-consuming.
C)​facilitated by large-muscle development.
D)​writers of tiny print.

Question 52

The speed and accuracy that individual children display in naming alphabet letters is called

A)​consistency.
B)​fluency.
C)​articulation.
D)​velocity.

Question 53

Early readers probably come from families that

A)​read to children frequently.
B)​purposefully taught reading if the child was interested.
C)​provided pencil and paper to children.
D)​all of these answers.

Question 54

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.

Question 55

Seeing and hearing patterns or repeated sequences can be a prewriting exercise.

Question 56

Skill-and-drill instruction in alphabet letter formation

A)​helps turn off some previously interested children.
B)​is enjoyable and appropriate.
C)​in preschool creates early reading ability.
D)​is recommended in the text.

Question 57

Advocates of brain-based instructional methods believe young children should have wooden,plastic or other three dimensional letter shapes to explore.

Question 58

Scribbling and drawing experiences leads some children to discover marks have meaning.

Question 59

The ability to notice and use critical features of graphic symbols in a written language is called

A)​phonemic awareness.
B)​phonetic awareness.
C)​orthographic awareness.
D)​lexicon awareness.

Question 60

Print awareness in now believed to begin at an early age.

Question 61

When teachers print words on a chart that children in a group are saying and want written down,children

A)​are learning about dictation.
B)​are learning about recording.
C)​are learning that words have meaning.
D)​all the above.

Question 62

Working with preschoolers in a developmentally appropriate fashion to promote language arts involves a lot of

A)​spontaneous and incidental teaching.
B)​commercially developed materials.
C)​sincere and physically sound teaching.
D)​group experiences with children learning letter shapes.

Question 63

Young children approach the act of writing

A)​as explorers.
B)​as future artists.
C)​as experts and masters.
D)​as seasoned visitors who know what they are doing.

Question 64

When children do print alphabet letters,among the easiest to print are

A)​A and X
B)​O and L
C)​C and U
D)​S and M

Question 65

The small arrows on most printing guides show adults and children

A)​how bold to make letters.
B)​the directions of formation strokes.
C)​how circles and lines intersect.
D)​none of these answers.

Question 66

In designing games to increase child familiarity with print,what developmentally appropriate criteria should guide teachers? Name five.

Question 67

What physical development is necessary and enables preschoolers to print if they choose to do so?

Question 68

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.

Question 69

When a teacher writes an alphabet letter for a child,the letter should be

A)​about 1 inch high or larger.
B)​described as each individual stroke is made.
C)​sounded out.
D)​printed in ink.

Question 70

The text does

A)​recommend that teachers ask children to be able to form and practice alphabet letter shapes.
B)​not recommended alphabet letter shape practice sessions.
C)​recommend group instruction of print script writing.
D)​none of the above

Question 71

A rebus chart has

A)numbers and letters.
B)​pictures and print.
C)​color and texture.
D)​prose and poetry.

Question 72

A proper writing grip

A)​should be taught in a quality preschool.
B)​is awkward for most preschoolers.
C)​is any grip a child chooses to use,some educators believe.
D)​will determine a child's printing ability.

Question 73

What might preschoolers learn about the uses and functions of print?

Question 74

The early childhood educator who is remembered for designing many teaching aids to promote printing in preschoolers through the child's sense of touch was

A)​Watson.
B)​Spinoli.
C)​Ferreira.
D)​Montessori.

Question 75

When children have lots of scribbling,painting,and drawing experience they

A)​become good readers.
B)​may make decisions that lead to discovery at times.
C)​may gain control of writing tools.
D)​b & c

Question 76

The most common occurrence of sight reading in preschoolers is

A)​reading charts.
B)​reading labels in the room.
C)​reading other's nametags.
D)​reading teacher's desk nameplate.

Question 77

List 10 classroom materials appropriate for preschoolers that involve the use of print.

Question 78

1.Match an item in Column A with its most logical match in Column B

Question 79

When children arrive at kindergarten thinking they can write

A)​their messages are more important than their print script form.
B)​they are eager to do it correctly.
C)​they probably think they know more that they really do.
D)​both a and c

Question 80

Understanding the functional uses of print is

A)​attaining some degree of print awareness.
B)​knowing about print's usefulness.
C)​an appropriate goal for preschoolers.
D)​all the above