Deck 15: Reading and Preschoolers

Question 1

Preschoolers' knowledge of alphabet letters is a good predictor of early reading achievement.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Literature that focuses on play with sounds helps children develop phonemic awareness.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Helping preschoolers who significantly lag behind their peers in language skills is unimportant before they reach kindergarten age.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Phonetic reading instruction is superior to other methods according to recent research.

Question 5

Some preschoolers on their own induce the sound of a particular alphabet letter after they know its name.

Question 6

Games with sound substitution elements need to be avoided at preschool level.

Question 7

Preschoolers' ability to discriminate phonemes when they hear them has little to do with early reading ability.

Question 8

Studying picture-book illustrations may help beginning readers.

Question 9

Knowing there is a systematic relationship between an alphabet letter and its sound is an important pre-reading skill.

Question 10

How best to teach reading has lately been accepted by most early childhood educators.

Question 11

Teachers urge children who begin reading words to guess at what a word says.

Question 12

If an educator wants to promote young children's becoming successful readers in the early grades of elementary school,she should stick to instruction in the language arts rather than talking about alphabet letter or number use in math,science,and social studies activities.

Question 13

Teachers' attitudes toward picture books can be catching.

Question 14

Young children may feel they "own" the first letter of their name and say things like "'A' is my letter."

Question 15

Predictable,logical picture books suit early readers.

Question 16

Finding picture books where print closely matches illustrations is a task for teachers who have beginning readers in preschool.

Question 17

Preschoolers have been known to memorize a picture book word for word.

Question 18

The greater the intellectual and positive emotional involvement in learning,the more effectively the brain learns and retains what is learned.

Question 19

Children use what they know about oral language to help them comprehend written language.

Question 20

A number of parents want reading skills taught during preschool years.

Question 21

It is estimated that approximately 10 percent of all children have difficulty learning to read while the rest learn easily.

Question 22

Reading methods come and go and are somewhat like clothing fads.

Question 23

Standards exist for institutions training people who teach children to read.

Question 24

As children grow they form ideas about reading and writing concurrently.

Question 25

Reading methods are methods schools use to teach reading and vary substantially.

Question 26

Oral vocabulary,sight vocabulary,and receptive vocabulary all refer to the same skill.

Question 27

Lots of play builds a foundation for learning to read with ease and understanding what is read.

Question 28

One would judge a center to be quality if it teaches 3 and 4 year olds to read.

Question 29

Teachers promote the idea that a child must finish looking at the first to last page of a book he has selected from the school book shelf.

Question 30

Some educators believe a child's ability to write his name is a predictive characteristic for easily learning to read.

Question 31

The National Reading Panel recommends that instruction in early literacy should be random and individualized.

Question 32

Shared reading takes place when one child reads a book on the computer.

Question 33

The best strategy for teaching early reading stresses instruction based on meaning and concepts that children already understand.

Question 34

Qualified teachers increase children's chances to become able readers.

Question 35

Possessing the disposition of wanting to know more helps early readers.

Question 36

Children have an academic advantage if they enter kindergarten reading,so preschools should teach them how to read.

Question 37

The earlier a child learns to read the better.

Question 38

Children develop most of their ideas and meanings concerning reading by investigating and finding out on their own.

Question 39

One of the earliest reading skills is reading pictures and illustrations.

Question 40

Reading ability and vocabulary are related.

Question 41

If a teacher stops during a book reading with children and says,"This illustration has a clue to what might happen on the next page," he is

A)​interrupting the story line.
B)​probably building critical thinking skill.
C)​probably building learning-to-read-with-ease skill.
D)​all of these answers.

Question 42

If you ask a young child to give you a red ball and he brings a blue one,the child does not possess the word red in his

A)​sight vocabulary.
B)​reading vocabulary.
C)​oral vocabulary.
D)​growing vocabulary.

Question 43

The earlier reading instruction begins,the better.

A)​This is a true statement.
B)​Research backs this conclusion.
C)​Research does not back this conclusion.
D)​This is true only for gifted children.

Question 44

Noted early childhood experts worry that preschool reading-skill instruction activities may

A)​reduce play time.
B)intimidate parents.​
C)accelerate mental growth.​
D)lead kindergartners to be bored in kindergarten.​

Question 45

Literary activities that promote children's recognition of incongruities

A)​deal with inappropriateness.
B)​help children recognize the ridiculous.
C)​deal with finding mistakes in literature.
D)​all of these answers.

Question 46

One common goal that centers should choose if they include reading readiness among their goals is children should

A)​acquire the ability to listen.
B)​recognize context clues in picture books.
C)​be able to spot rhyme.
D)​all the above

Question 47

The best predictor of a child's first year reading achievement is

A)​coming from a family that reads.
B)​knowing all the letter sounds in preschool.
C)​how much drawing he has done in preschool.
D)​a preschooler's alphabet letter knowledge.

Question 48

Some preschoolers read simple books at age

A)​20-30 months.
B)​30-40 months.
C)​40-60 months.
D)​all of the above.

Question 49

A child's oral vocabulary is closely related to

A)​his printing ability and scholarship.
B)​reading comprehension and ease in learning to read.
C)​creativity and motivation.
D)​attention span and distractibility.

Question 50

Children who need additional help and support to aid their language development should

A)​receive it as early as possible.
B)​be identified as early as possible.
C)​have preschool teachers able to discern their needs.
D)​all of these answers.

Question 51

Today the field of reading instruction seems to lack consensus concerning

A)​best practices for teaching reading.
B)​whether phonics should be taught at all.
C)​the training of reading teachers.
D)​none of these answers.

Question 52

When identifying children at-risk for reading delays,early childhood educators should be on the lookout for lags in

A)​expressive language.
B)​letter identification.
C)​verbal memories for stories.
D)​all of these answers

Question 53

Children with many experiences with stories

A)​can accurately sound out words.
B)tend to know stories have predictable segments and features.​
C)can read simple words such as was or am by late preschool years.​
D)realize words are separated in sentences and that sentences end in periods.​

Question 54

The size of a child's reading vocabulary refers to

A)​words he can speak.
B)​words he recognizes when he hears them.
C)​words he recognizes in print.
D)​none of these answers.

Question 55

The language arts are

A)​​thought to include six arts areas.
B)​interrelated and interdependent.
C)​separate,distinct areas of study.
D)all of these answers.

Question 56

Most early childhood educators are

A)​trained to teach reading to small groups of preschoolers.
B)​aware of the superiority of phonics instruction.
C)​equipped to teach reading to limited-English children.
D)​none of these answers.

Question 57

Sending or receiving written messages

A)​is not an appropriate activity for preschoolers.
B)is confusing to young children.​
C)may aid preschoolers' knowledge of print use.​
D)is appropriate for preschoolers if all letters in words are capitalized.​

Question 58

If stories and hands-on projects build child vocabulary,then

A)​both should be part of a ready-to-read-with-ease curriculum.
B)they can be thought of as literacy activities.​
C)the child needs to come in contact with other children and adults.​
D)all of these answers.​

Question 59

Formal reading instruction for preschoolers

A)​takes place in most preschools.
B)puts preschoolers ahead of children schooled at home.​
C)now has U.S.government endorsement.​
D)​none of these answers.

Question 60

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.​

Question 61

What life or environmental factors put a child at-risk for learning to read with ease?

Question 62

What suggestions do teachers have for parents that could increase children's ease at learning to read?

Question 63

What arguments or statements would you use to convince preschoolers' parents who want formal reading instruction that this is not the best course of action?

Question 64

List seven characteristics of children who are at risk for potential problems when learning to read.

Question 65

Children's progress in elementary school is tied to

A)​their motivation.
B)​their inherited ability.
C)​their ability to read.
D)​their ability to get along with others.

Question 66

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.

Question 67

Explain which method of teaching reading is best and why you feel this is so.

Question 68

Name three well-known reading programs and/or methods.

Question 69

How do some adults promote children's development of an extensive vocabulary? List techniques and strategies.

Question 70

At the present time,what factors are the most important influences determining what preschool activities in language arts will be offered?

Question 71

Provide an example of 3 teacher sentences that might help children to recognize incongruity.

Question 72

Transitional kindergartens have developed to

A)​increase language skills over the summer.
B)​take the place of regular kindergarten
C)​work with unruly children before kindergarten.
D)​let parents know their child lags behind.

Question 73

Reading methods vary

A)​but one method is best.
B)​but rarely are politics involved in their selection.
C)​but each is concerned with adopting the one best method to teach children to read.
D)​but phonics instruction is emphasized in all of them.

Question 74

How would you describe a child's disposition to read?

Question 75

Those who study research usually recommend that early literacy instruction in a preschool should concentrate on

A)​rhyming,alliteration and fluency,and phonics and printing.
B)​letter naming,vocabulary,the alphabet principle,print awareness,and phonics.
C)​phonics,rhyming,phonemic awareness,printing,and the alphabet.
D)​phonemic awareness,comprehension,vocabulary,and fluency.