Foundations
Multicultural Perspective
Language Development
Rhyme, Rhythm, and Song
Speaking and Listening
100
This is when literacy begins: birth, when they first speak, preschool, or say ABCs?
What is birth?
100
One way a teacher can promote multiculturalism in his/her classroom is this.
What is reading books with multicultural characters, learning about other cultures through making food, etc.?
100
The window of opportunity for oral language development occurs during this time period in a child's life.
What is toddlerhood to the preschool years?
100
Singing, rhymes, and word games can all be used to develop which of the core skills children need to be able to learn how to read: phonological awareness, comprehension, or vocabulary?
What is phonological awareness?
100
This is the foundation for all literacy experiences in the preschool classroom.
What is oral language?
200
These are the most important years for literacy development
What is the early years---birth to age 8?
200
Promoting diversity within the classroom has this effect on children.
What is teaches acceptance, positive attitudes towards others that are different than themselves, etc.?
200
The key to unlocking language for babies is this.
What is hearing people speak to them?
200
Phonemic awareness focuses on this.
What is the knowledge that words are made up of individual sounds?
200
This is the best way to assess a child's language production.
What is observations with a checklist?
300
This is the best way for children to learn early literacy skills---choose one: word and letter drills, reciting the alphabet, constructing their own knowledge, memorizing words and letter sounds.
What is constructing their own knowledge?
300
After reading a multicultural picture book, preschool children can respond in a variety of ways. Name 2 activities.
What is pretend to be one of the characters, build a house for the character, write a letter, retell the story with puppets, etc.?
300
The language environment in a preschool classroom should include.......(Name 3)
What is fun-filled activities, cooperative learning situations, free play time, etc.?
300
This is defined as "any group of words that is recited with a lively beat."
What is a chant?
300
Child-child conversations are promoted in the classroom by doing these things.
What is giving children free choice time, setting up cooperative learning activities, having a dramatic play center, etc.?
400
The best way to assess preschool children's literacy achievements is by using these.
What are observations, checklists, and interviews (authentic assessments)?
400
Teachers should select multicultural picture books based on what criteria?
What are the "realness" of the characters, how the story fits into the curriculum, and what theme is being highlighted?
400
This is how you as a teacher should respond when a student uses incorrect grammar.
What is accept each child's language, not matter how poorly it is pronounced or how ungrammatical it is? Be a good role model in your response.
400
Action chants are important in the development of early literacy because they do this.
What is develop pathways in the brain?
400
These are 3 ways to help DLLs in your classroom develop language skills.
What is give attention to the home language, have parents or another adult who speaks the home language visit and/or read a book, be patient and encourage speaking, expand on the student's language production?
500
The circuits in the brain are set up for infants, toddlers, and preschool children to be able to do this naturally.
What is speaking?
500
The single most important activity for helping young children learn to read is this.
What is reading aloud to children?
500
Teachers nurture children's language development when they do this.....
What is get down on the child's level and verbally interact?
500
Five different ways to incorporate rhyme, rhythm, and/or song into the preschool classroom.
What is a variety of answers?
500
These are 3 of the strategies you can use to help children who are in the early production stage of language production.
What is expansion, extension, parallel talk, self-talk, vertical structuring, and fill-in?
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