A first- grade teacher learns that his class for the upcoming school year will include students from
various cultural backgrounds with a number of home languages. The teacher wants to create an
inclusive & respectful learning environment for the class. Which of the following teacher steps is likely to
be most effective in promoting his goal?
a) asking the student's families to send in objects from home that reflect their culture to include in
classroom activities
b)including books, music & photographs in the classroom environment that originate from the students'
cultures.
c)incorporating words from the students' various home languages into daily lessons throughout the
year.
d)planning a variety of activities for the first day of school centered around helping the students get to
know each other - ✔✔b)
At the beginning of the school year, a preschool teacher plans the daily routines of the class. The teacher
decides that every day when the children arrive at school, they will first hang up their backups, in their
assigned cubbies and then choose a table top activity. After table top activities, the children clean up
and join the teacher at the carpet for teacher-led stories & songs. Which of the following rationales
describes the primary benefit of establishing daily routines for children?
a) promoting children's friendships
b) fostering children's early academic skills
c) helping children gain a sense of security
d)ensuring development children of children's independent self-care skills - ✔✔c) helping children gain a
sense of security
,An early childhood teacher is planning the classroom environment for three- and four-year-old children.
She creates centers in the room for art, dramatic play, sensory activities and building with blocks. Within
each of these centers, she has shelves and containers of materials labeled with pictures and words, such
as crayons, blocks & cars. This practice is likely to promote the children's skills in literacy and:
a) independent thinking
b)time management
c)conflict resolution
d)social development - ✔✔d) social development
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher sets up her classroom to include learning
centers. She arranges her room with a reading area, an art center, a block area, & an area for dramatic
play.
Which of the following classroom management strategies would be most effective to encourage positive
social interactions among the children at each learning center?
a) allowing different children to play in each center each day
b) reducing the number of materials in each center
c) limiting the capacity of children in each center
d) grouping children at each center with similar personalities and interests - ✔✔c) limiting the capacity
of children in each other
An 8-year-old student who is an English language learner has recently joined a second-grade class. she
can communicate in English with simple phrases & sentences and has an English vocabulary of
approximately 3,000 words. she often makes grammar and pronunciation errors and misunderstands
jokes. Which of the following stages of second language acquisition best describes this student's present
level?
a) intermediate fluency
b) early production
c) preproduction
, d) speech emergence - ✔✔d) Speech emergence
According to research, the factor that has been shown to have the greatest influence on an infant's
language development is the:
a) quantity and ages of an infant's siblings that live in the same household
b) age at which the infant attends day care.
c) amount of time the infant spends with others outside the home
d) number & quality of interactions the infant has with primary caregivers - ✔✔d) number & quality of
interactions the infant has with primary caregivers
A first-grade teacher ensures students have ample opportunities to write during the day. For example,
students frequently write lists and stories & encourage in cooperative writing tasks with peers. Students
are also provided many occasions to share their writing with the class. In addition to promoting
student's writing development, the teacher's regular use of these activities most likely directly builds
students':
a) reading skills by reinforcing their understanding of the relationship between sounds & letters
b) vocabulary development by helping them expand their understand of printed words
c) listening skills be developing their ability to hear peers retell stories of events from their day
d) word knowledge by promoting their understanding of sophisticated and interesting words - ✔✔a)
reading skills by reinforcing their understanding of the relationship between sounds & letters
An early childhood educator would like to promote the speech development of a nine-month-old by
motivating her to produce words. Which of the following strategies is most developmental appropriate
to address the teachers goals? - ✔✔d) engaging the child in games that require her to make a request
using vocalization (blowing more bubbles from a wand)
A new student whose home language is not English recently joined a first-grade class. The teacher
communicates to the students' parents through a translator and suggests they read to their child every
night & continue to speak to each other in their home language as much as possible. This practice
benefits English language learners primary in which of the following ways?