National Board Early Childhood Generalist
Component 1 100% Verified
Reflection - ANSWER Minute-to- minute adjustments a teacher makes or in the more
thoughtful analysis and deliberate adjustments made at the end of a unit
Orthography - ANSWER A set of conventions for writing a language (spelling,
capitalization, punctuation)
Students need lots of opportunities to - ANSWER count and produce sets
composing/decomposing - ANSWER Mathematical processes of putting together and
taking apart (for example, addition and subtraction)
Unitizing - ANSWER Must be mastered prior to moving students to base 10 blocks
Stages of language development - ANSWER 1- Preproduction minimal comprehension
2- Early productivity limited comprehension
3- Speech emergence good comprehension
4-Intermediate fluency excellent comprehension
5- Advanced fluency near native language
Carol Tomlinson-ANSWER Differentiated instruction- A more qualitative than
quantitative approach to teaching and learning for students of differing abilities to
maximize each students growth and individual success by meeting each student where
they are and assisting in the learning process
Differentiation-ANSWER Teachers response to the learners needs : respectful tasks,
,continual assessment, flexible grouping
Teachers can differentiate-ANSWER Content, process, product
Differentiate according to students - ANSWER Readiness, interests, learning profile
Differentiated Instructional strategies - ANSWER Learning stations, task cards, target
different senses, think-pair-share, group students with similar learning styles
Stages of Phonological Awareness/Literacy Development - ANSWER 1&2-Listening and
speaking
3-Rhyme awareness
4-Syllable awareness (Mon•day)
5-Onset & Rhyme (t•all)
6&7- Phonemic Awareness (pencil) 5 sounds
8- Phonics - sound /letter relationships
9&10 Phonics - reading & spelling
Homonyms - ANSWER Spruce- to spruce up
Spruce - spruce tree
Homographs - ANSWER Bow- to bend down
Bow- ribbon
Homophones - ANSWER Rode/Road
Affixes - ANSWER prefixes and suffixes
, Root words - ANSWER morphemes
Schwa - ANSWER Mysterious unstressed vowel (banana) /u/
Developmental Stages of Writing - ANSWER 1. Pre-Literate - scribble, symbolic stage,
directional scribble, mock letters
2. Emergent - letter strings, letter groups, labels pictures, environmental print
3. Transitional - Letter/Word representation, first/last letter (ct=cat)
4. Fluent - Beginning phrase writing, sentence writing
Stages of Writing - ANSWER 1. Planning
2. First Draft
3. Revising
4. Editing
5. Publishing
Steps in the research paper - ANSWER 1. Identify topic
2. Develop ideas
3. Gather content
4. Evaluate resources
5. Create citations
Commutative Property - ANSWER A+B=C
B+A=C
Associative Property - ANSWER (a+b)+c=a+(b+c)
(ab)c=a(bc)
Component 1 100% Verified
Reflection - ANSWER Minute-to- minute adjustments a teacher makes or in the more
thoughtful analysis and deliberate adjustments made at the end of a unit
Orthography - ANSWER A set of conventions for writing a language (spelling,
capitalization, punctuation)
Students need lots of opportunities to - ANSWER count and produce sets
composing/decomposing - ANSWER Mathematical processes of putting together and
taking apart (for example, addition and subtraction)
Unitizing - ANSWER Must be mastered prior to moving students to base 10 blocks
Stages of language development - ANSWER 1- Preproduction minimal comprehension
2- Early productivity limited comprehension
3- Speech emergence good comprehension
4-Intermediate fluency excellent comprehension
5- Advanced fluency near native language
Carol Tomlinson-ANSWER Differentiated instruction- A more qualitative than
quantitative approach to teaching and learning for students of differing abilities to
maximize each students growth and individual success by meeting each student where
they are and assisting in the learning process
Differentiation-ANSWER Teachers response to the learners needs : respectful tasks,
,continual assessment, flexible grouping
Teachers can differentiate-ANSWER Content, process, product
Differentiate according to students - ANSWER Readiness, interests, learning profile
Differentiated Instructional strategies - ANSWER Learning stations, task cards, target
different senses, think-pair-share, group students with similar learning styles
Stages of Phonological Awareness/Literacy Development - ANSWER 1&2-Listening and
speaking
3-Rhyme awareness
4-Syllable awareness (Mon•day)
5-Onset & Rhyme (t•all)
6&7- Phonemic Awareness (pencil) 5 sounds
8- Phonics - sound /letter relationships
9&10 Phonics - reading & spelling
Homonyms - ANSWER Spruce- to spruce up
Spruce - spruce tree
Homographs - ANSWER Bow- to bend down
Bow- ribbon
Homophones - ANSWER Rode/Road
Affixes - ANSWER prefixes and suffixes
, Root words - ANSWER morphemes
Schwa - ANSWER Mysterious unstressed vowel (banana) /u/
Developmental Stages of Writing - ANSWER 1. Pre-Literate - scribble, symbolic stage,
directional scribble, mock letters
2. Emergent - letter strings, letter groups, labels pictures, environmental print
3. Transitional - Letter/Word representation, first/last letter (ct=cat)
4. Fluent - Beginning phrase writing, sentence writing
Stages of Writing - ANSWER 1. Planning
2. First Draft
3. Revising
4. Editing
5. Publishing
Steps in the research paper - ANSWER 1. Identify topic
2. Develop ideas
3. Gather content
4. Evaluate resources
5. Create citations
Commutative Property - ANSWER A+B=C
B+A=C
Associative Property - ANSWER (a+b)+c=a+(b+c)
(ab)c=a(bc)
