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Teaching Reading: A Balanced Approach for Today's Classrooms
Pamela Farris, Northern Illinois University
Carol Fuhler, Iowa State University
Maria Walther

Emergent Literacy: Beginning Reading and Writing

Multiple Choice



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
2

The term "emergent literacy" was coined by
A)Maria Montessori.
B)Jean Piaget.
C)Marie Clay.
D)Lev Vygotsky.
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
4

Which term best describes Chomsky's views of oral language development?
A)biological
B)cognitive
C)social
D)constructivist
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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