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1 | | Which of the following is NOT a criterion for selecting texts? |
| | A) | number of pages |
| | B) | relevance to students' interests |
| | C) | literary quality |
| | D) | complexity of text |
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2 | | The term "emergent literacy" was coined by |
| | A) | Maria Montessori. |
| | B) | Jean Piaget. |
| | C) | Marie Clay. |
| | D) | Lev Vygotsky. |
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3 | | Which two professional teaching organizations created Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children? |
| | A) | National Council of Teachers of English and International Reading Association |
| | B) | International Reading Association and National Association for the Education of Young Children |
| | C) | National Association for the Education of Young Children and National Council of Teachers of English |
| | D) | International Reading Association and National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education |
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4 | | Which term best describes Chomsky's views of oral language development? |
| | A) | biological |
| | B) | cognitive |
| | C) | social |
| | D) | constructivist |
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5 | | About how many words will a child have in his/her receptive vocabulary by his/her second birthday? |
| | A) | 150 words |
| | B) | 200 words |
| | C) | 250 words |
| | D) | 300 words |
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6 | | When children learn to speak in two-word utterances, this is known as |
| | A) | babbling. |
| | B) | holophrastic speech. |
| | C) | telegraphic speech. |
| | D) | syntactic speech. |
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7 | | Which of the following is NOT one of the four components of a child's oral language? |
| | A) | reception |
| | B) | language production |
| | C) | conversation |
| | D) | articulation |
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8 | | Which of the following lists four of Allington's "six T's" factors present in an exemplary elementary classroom? |
| | A) | time, talent, tenacity, and talk |
| | B) | talk, tasks, testing, and talent |
| | C) | time, texts, testing, and tenacity |
| | D) | time, texts, testing, and talk |
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9 | | Which of the following is NOT one of the five areas of instruction identified by the National Reading Panel as consistently relating to classroom success? |
| | A) | phonemic awareness |
| | B) | test-taking |
| | C) | fluency |
| | D) | vocabulary |
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10 | | What, according to the IRA and NAEYC, is the "single most important activity for building understandings and skills essential for reading success"? |
| | A) | having preschoolers view Sesame Street |
| | B) | encouraging children of all ages to read |
| | C) | reading aloud to children |
| | D) | teaching the alphabet to three-year-olds |
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11 | | Durkin (1975) found that the kindergartners who began school already reading all shared the fact that |
| | A) | they were six, not five, years old. |
| | B) | their parents were teachers. |
| | C) | they had older siblings. |
| | D) | they came from literacy-rich home environments. |
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12 | | The recommended number of books that first-graders should hear in school each day is at least |
| | A) | two to four books. |
| | B) | one to two books. |
| | C) | three to five books. |
| | D) | four to six books. |
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13 | | Small-group lessons that the teacher conducts while the rest of the class is otherwise engaged in literacy activities are known as |
| | A) | shared reading. |
| | B) | silent reading. |
| | C) | guided reading. |
| | D) | self-selected reading. |
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14 | | To support children engaging in invented spelling, Richgels (1989) suggests that teachers do all but WHICH of the following? |
| | A) | Observe and reinforce as students read and write. |
| | B) | Encourage students to look up their words in the dictionary. |
| | C) | Treat budding writers as you treat budding speakers. |
| | D) | Celebrate approximations. |
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15 | | A ______ is yellow. A ______ is yellow. A ______ is yellow. But a ________ is not yellow. What is the name for the above type of writing structure? |
| | A) | frame sentence |
| | B) | interactive writing |
| | C) | shared writing |
| | D) | patterned writing |
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