EDRD 3301 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS)
/ALREADY GRADED
How can wordless picture books stimulate oral and written language
development? Ans✓✓✓They encourage children to tell the story in
their own words.
Encouraging a child to read a book because of the possible therapeutic
effects that may be gained from the reading experience is called
Ans✓✓✓Bibliotherapy.
Name three ways that literature supports children's development.
Ans✓✓✓Cognitive, personality, and social development.
A teacher who is leading children's discussions about a series of books
on the same subject written by different authors is encouraging cognitive
development through Ans✓✓✓Comparing.
Children of this age group want to do jobs well, have a sense of justice,
develop racial attitudes, and develop strong associations with gender-
typed expectations. Ans✓✓✓Upper elementary
Children of this age enjoy sitting still and listening to stories, may defy
parents when they are under pressure, have definite, inflexible ideas of
right and wrong, and have difficulty getting along with younger siblings.
Ans✓✓✓Early elementary
, Walter Loban's research suggests that discussion should be a vital part of
elementary literature programs because it helps children
Ans✓✓✓Selected Answer:
Organize ideas and illustrate complex generalizations.
When Purves and Monson analyze children's responses to literature, the
analytic response Ans✓✓✓Points to the uses of language, structure, and
point of view.
Using words, stories in rhyme, and acting out sounds and movement are
important aspects of Ans✓✓✓Language development.
The processes involved in perception, memory, reasoning, reflection,
and insight constitute Ans✓✓✓Cognitive development.
Cynthia Rylant's Missing May and Avi's Nothing But the Truth: A
Documentory Novel are especially good for motivation because the
books encourage responding to Ans✓✓✓Understanding of self.
Socialization is said to occur Ans✓✓✓When children learn the ways of
their groups so that they can function acceptable within them.
VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS)
/ALREADY GRADED
How can wordless picture books stimulate oral and written language
development? Ans✓✓✓They encourage children to tell the story in
their own words.
Encouraging a child to read a book because of the possible therapeutic
effects that may be gained from the reading experience is called
Ans✓✓✓Bibliotherapy.
Name three ways that literature supports children's development.
Ans✓✓✓Cognitive, personality, and social development.
A teacher who is leading children's discussions about a series of books
on the same subject written by different authors is encouraging cognitive
development through Ans✓✓✓Comparing.
Children of this age group want to do jobs well, have a sense of justice,
develop racial attitudes, and develop strong associations with gender-
typed expectations. Ans✓✓✓Upper elementary
Children of this age enjoy sitting still and listening to stories, may defy
parents when they are under pressure, have definite, inflexible ideas of
right and wrong, and have difficulty getting along with younger siblings.
Ans✓✓✓Early elementary
, Walter Loban's research suggests that discussion should be a vital part of
elementary literature programs because it helps children
Ans✓✓✓Selected Answer:
Organize ideas and illustrate complex generalizations.
When Purves and Monson analyze children's responses to literature, the
analytic response Ans✓✓✓Points to the uses of language, structure, and
point of view.
Using words, stories in rhyme, and acting out sounds and movement are
important aspects of Ans✓✓✓Language development.
The processes involved in perception, memory, reasoning, reflection,
and insight constitute Ans✓✓✓Cognitive development.
Cynthia Rylant's Missing May and Avi's Nothing But the Truth: A
Documentory Novel are especially good for motivation because the
books encourage responding to Ans✓✓✓Understanding of self.
Socialization is said to occur Ans✓✓✓When children learn the ways of
their groups so that they can function acceptable within them.
