Curriculum and Methods for Early Childhood Mock Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the foundational principles, theories, and practices related to curriculum development and instructional methods for young children from birth through age eight. Emphasizing developmentally appropriate practices, students will examine how to plan, implement, and assess learning experiences that foster cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. The course addresses the integration of play-based learning, family and community engagement, and inclusion of diverse learners, while highlighting the importance of observation and assessment in guiding curriculum decisions. Through analysis of various curricular models and hands-on activities, participants will gain practical strategies for creating supportive, engaging, and effective early childhood educational environments.
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Early Childhood Experiences in Language Arts Early Literacy 11th Edition by
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Chapter 1: Beginnings of Communication
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Q1) At birth or shortly thereafter,an infant may be able to recognize subtle differences between his native language sounds and another world language sounds.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Most researchers suggest that thinking,cognition,and emotion take place in separate brain areas and have no relationship with one another.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) By age seven to twelve months,infants usually respond to their own name.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Briefly discuss "parentese" and how it affects most infants.
Answer: Because it is high-pitched and sing-song,it may hold the infant's attention and aid the infant's focus on speech or it may soothe.A few infants prefer lower speech sounds.The practice can be frowned upon in some cultures.
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Chapter 2: The Tasks of the Toddler
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Q1) The primary developmental need of toddlers other than food and shelter is toys and playmates.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Considering story books with electronic features,educators believe that
A)they may be more educative than human read-alouds.
B)they are not worth the money.
C)they attract but do not hold toddlers' attention for long.
D)reading with a responsive adult is best.
Answer: D
Q3) Large group story time for toddler care centers is recommended.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The word beautiful is a modifier.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Preschool Years
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Q1) At one or two years of age if a toddler has an average vocabulary size of 200 words,you would estimate that at five years of age he'd have 10 times that amount or more words in his vocabulary.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) If a child uses four or less than four word sentences,you'd suspect he is about 4 years old.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Self-talk may help children
A)sequence actions.
B)control behavior.
C)be flexible in their thinking.
D)all of these answers
Answer: D
Q4) Discuss preschoolers' increasing maturity in the questions he asks others using examples when necessary.
Answer: See Figure in text titled Question Development.
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Chapter 4: Understanding Differences
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Q1) Constant correction by teachers can impede a child's language acquisition,regardless of his or her native dialect or language.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Nonwhite,nonnative speakers and poor children are considered just as likely to learn to read quickly and as well as other children.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The use of words such as hey or okay by second-language learners is a useful device.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What problems might non-English-speaking preschoolers encounter in their attempts to play with others?
Q5) African-American English is also called Black English. A)True
B)False
Q6) Language delay may occur in what areas of language development?
Q7) Define accent.
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Chapter 5: Achieving Language and Literacy Goals
Through Program Planning
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Q1) Whole-group literacy instruction was recommended in the text.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Preschool educators are now urged to use organized and systematic instructional approaches in the teaching of language arts.
A)True
B)False
Q3) It is ____ that an activity plan is necessary for every planned language arts activity that a teacher undertakes.
A)true
B)false
C)true for all language arts activities
D)none of these answers
Q4) A child reading the illustrations in a picture book and then creating a story to go with them will probably learn to read easily even if her story has nothing to do with the book.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why is it prudent to create attention attracting room centers?
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Chapter 6: Promoting Language and Literacy
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Q1) As a teacher you have the responsibility to create a classroom as educative and interesting as possible even if you have limited funds.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss high-level and low-level distancing strategies in adult speech with young children.
Q3) In conversing with preschoolers,the teacher's behaviors should promote the
A)child's expression of his own conclusions.
B)child's ownership of ideas
C)collaboration among children.
D)all of these answers.
Q4) A lot of child learning of language occurs
A)in social activities with others.
B)in skill and drill classrooms.
C)when imitation and memorizing happens.
D)when teachers mean business.
Q5) Teachers should think: Why just say cookie when you could say peanut butter cookie?
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Developing Listening Skills
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Q1) Social interaction and successful learning is affected by both hearing ability and listening ability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With practice listening can improve.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One comprehends about 80 percent of what one hears.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Providing phonetic instruction or phonemic awareness activities to preschoolers is developmentally appropriate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Listening for words that begin with a specific initial phoneme is appropriate for some preschoolers.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is the difference between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness?
Q7) What is one likely to find in a preschool classroom's listening center?
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Chapter 8: Children and Books
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Q1) How many ways might a child participate during a read-aloud? Name at least eight.
Q2) Although teachers know the benefits of reading aloud to children in preschools,researchers have found that many enrolled children are read to for less than 1 hour per week at school.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe how a teacher might build child comprehension when reading a book.
Q4) What suggestions do you think are the most important to impart to parents who ask for guidance in reading picture books to their children?
Q5) Picture books once read to children can be turned into
A)dramatization opportunities.
B)flannel board sets.
C)the basis for a theme instruction topic if great interest exists.
D)all of these answers.
Q6) Teachers should go to the classroom library area frequently.
A)True
B)False
Q7) What kind of multicultural/multi-ethnic books are sought by preschool teachers?
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Chapter 9: StoryTelling
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Q1) A fairy tale
A)can be a folktale.
B)can be about real-life problems.
C)sometimes includes giants,nonhumans,and magical events.
D)all of these answers.
Q2) As children are exposed to repeated experiences of storytelling of the same story,they may notice additional features about the plot and characters.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Storytellers can emphasize,define,or weave specific words into their presentations. A)True
B)False
Q4) Name 3 picture books that can be used for storytelling without the book,and explain why you choose each.
Q5) How might a teacher use photographs to tell a story?
Q6) Good storytellers maintain audience eye contact. A)True B)False
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Chapter 10: Poetry
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Q1) Mother Goose poetry is out of date for today's young children.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When teacher reads poetry she should A)emphasize rhyming line endings.
B)read it with familiarity.
C)ask children to remember it.
D)read it from a wall chart.
Q3) Sound-based word games that rhyme are good for developing early reading skills. A)True
B)False
Q4) Alliteration is the repetition of ending consonant sounds. A)True B)False
Q5) A poem that does not rhyme is called A)free verse.
B)narrative.
C)a lyric.
D)none of these answers.
Q6) Provide an example of a short two verse poem that uses a simile.
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Chapter 11: Language Growth Through Flannel Boards, puppetry, and Dramatization
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Q1) What attracts young children's attention quickly in flannel board presentations?
Q2) One could accompany a song with a flannel board presentation
A)but this would not work well.
B)and encourage the children to sing along.
C)and encourage the children to clap at the song's end.
D)and encourage the children to sing along and clap at the song's end.
Q3) Give examples of how puppet use may increase children's language skills.
Q4) Dramatizing and playacting engages language skills in children by
A)remembering sequencing of events,listening,and learning speech lines.
B)providing answers for standardized tests.
C)allowing children to act out their fears and aggressions.
D)giving teachers a way to evaluate their students' speaking abilities.
Q5) Puppets can be
A)used to relive and imitate experiences.
B)constructed by children.
C)challenging because of the need to coordinate speech and movement.
D)all of the above
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Q6) Educators find flannel board presentations are especially valuable for second language learners,why?
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Chapter 12: Realizing Speaker Goals
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Q1) A teacher will encourage "divergent thinking" in a child if he or she is asked "What do you think will happen to the water in the cup if the cup tips over?"
A)True
B)False
Q2) Non-verbal gestures mean different things to different children.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In a larger child group,rather than a small intimate group,more speech action is likely to occur.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There are a limited number of dramatic play center themes possible.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The child who thoughtfully pauses before answering may be displaying decreasing impulsivity.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Name five popular and common dramatic play centers or kits.
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Chapter 13: Group Times
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Q1) "It's my time to talk Ryan,and your time to listen" can be a rule at circle to curb one child's attention-getting disruption.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A signal can alert a classroom of children to a starting circle-time activity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If circle time goes badly,it may be because
A)the setting was responsible.
B)the teacher failed to observe certain child behaviors.
C)the children were obstinate.
D)the setting was responsible and the teacher failed to observe certain child behaviors.
Q4) Leaving one group activity and moving in an orderly fashion to the next is called A)passing.
B)shifting.
C)transitioning.
D)proceeding.
Q5) 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) In designing games to increase child familiarity with print,what developmentally appropriate criteria should guide teachers? Name five.
Q2) Scribbling on paper involves child decision making.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Scribbling and drawing experiences leads some children to discover marks have meaning.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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.
Q5) 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
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Chapter 15: Reading and Preschoolers
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Q1) As children grow they form ideas about reading and writing concurrently.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) Preschoolers have been known to memorize a picture book word for word.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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.
Q5) Reading methods come and go and are somewhat like clothing fads.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Developing a Literacy Environment
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Q1) Displays should be at adult's eye level if possible.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the obstacles to computer use in preschools is funding.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research has suggested that certain children may gain benefit from computer use during preschool years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some computer programs have improved children's speech skills successfully.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Many educators worry that digital and electronic media may harm young children's brains.
A)True
B)False
Q6) List audiovisual equipment that relates to language arts instruction possibly found in a preschool classroom.(Mention five. )
Q7) List possible benefits of computer use by young children.
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Chapter 17: The Family-Center Partnership
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Q1) National legislation has promoted more parental involvement in their children's education.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Early childhood centers use volunteers for a wide variety of in-class and out-of-class jobs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Families can usually have more educationally pertinent conversations with their children than teachers because
A)their children trust them.
B)their background experiences are more common.
C)they know how to talk to their children.
D)they understand closure,extending,and expanding.
Q4) Describe what advice you would give a parent concerning a home reading center.
Q5) Centers urge families to make books available in a child's life
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are some of the possible effects of excessive and unsupervised television viewing in young children?
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