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

True or False


1	The emergent literacy perspective focuses on the sequential development of first reading, then writing, and then oral language.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


2	Third-graders generally are in the fifth, or independent and productive reading and writing, phase of literacy development.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


3	Vygotsky, like Chomsky, held a biological view of oral language development.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


4	When Kaylynn learned to make the sound "na-na-na," she was demonstrating the ability to generate holophrastic speech.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


5	When Grace's kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Clark, takes her class to the zoo and then asks Grace to dictate a story about what she did at the zoo, Grace is participating in a language experience activity.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


6	Children should not be allowed to listen to children's books on tape as they read along because this may limit their desire to learn to read on their own.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


7	Students reading at an independent level of ability should be able to read 90% of the text with ease.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


8	One example of shared writing activities is the morning message.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


9	Rather than specify what to look for, it is better for teachers to instruct writing workshop participants to simply look for "what looks wrong" while editing.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


10	When choosing texts for their classrooms, teachers need to consider their students' roles in society and in the workplace.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.

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