CECE Language & Literacy Development Flashcards
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Which instructional approach to teaching reading comprehension asks children to activate background knowledge, predict, visualize, question, and summarize?
Answer: Reciprocal teaching
Reciprocal teaching is a structured comprehension strategy that explicitly teaches predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing through guided collaborative reading.
In an inclusive early childhood classroom, a child who is an English Language Learner (ELL) is developing literacy. Which practice best supports their development?
Answer: Building on the child's home language literacy skills and providing bilingual support
Research consistently shows that strong home language literacy skills transfer to English literacy, and bilingual support accelerates overall literacy development for ELL students.
What is the primary purpose of a 'word wall' in an early childhood classroom?
Answer: To provide a visual reference of high-frequency words to support reading and writing
A word wall is an accessible, organized display of high-frequency and content words that serves as a reference tool during reading and writing activities.
Which of the following BEST describes 'invented spelling' in early childhood writing development?
Answer: Children's attempts to spell words using their developing phonemic and phonics knowledge
Invented spelling reflects children's active use of phonemic awareness and letter-sound knowledge and is considered a healthy developmental milestone that supports literacy growth.
According to Hart and Risley's landmark research, what is the most significant factor contributing to the '30-million word gap' between children from low-income and higher-income families?
Answer: The quantity and quality of adult-child verbal interactions from birth to age 3
Hart and Risley found that the cumulative number of words children heard in adult conversation from birth to age 3 was the primary driver of later vocabulary and academic achievement differences.
A teacher uses 'think-alouds' during a read-aloud. What comprehension skill is this strategy designed to model?
Answer: Making predictions, connections, and inferences by verbalizing internal thought processes
Think-alouds make the invisible comprehension process visible by having the teacher verbalize their thinking as they read, explicitly modeling metacognitive strategies for students.