OAE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PRACTICE TEST NEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALL DONE SOLUTION UPDATE
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OAE EARLY CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION PRACTICE TEST NEW
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALL
DONE SOLUTION UPDATE
Which of the following behaviors reflects an infants development of an
understanding of object permanence?
a. sucking on part of a handheld toy
b. switching a toy from hand to hand
c. watching a toy roll across a floor
d. searching for a toy under a blanket - D.
Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory of development hypothesizes that, at the
beginning of the elementary school years, the primary conflict facing young
children is that of:
a. industry vs. inferiority
b. intimacy vs. isolation
c. trust vs. mistrust
d. identity vs. role confusion - A.
During which age span do young children typically first begin to
demonstrate goal-directed actions?
a. 0-2 years
b. 2-4 years
c. 4-6 years
d. 6-8 years - A. .
Which of the following is most characteristic of the language development
of a typical three-year-old child?
a. speaking in complete simple sentences (e.g. "I want a cookie."
b. pointing to objects and uttering a single word (e.g. "Cookie")
c. combining two words together (e.g. "Want cookie")
d. speaking in complex sentences (e.g. "Please give me a chocolate
cookies because I feel very very hungry" - A.
Which of the following is most important to address is a health and safety
unit for kindergarteners as they being the school year?
a. Reasons for respecting the safety rules established by teachers,
administrators, and other adults
b. Common causes of minor injuries that occur on the school playground
c. The different ways in which harmful household substances affect the
body is ingested and touched
d. Procedures for crossing streets, parking lots, and driveways and bus
safety - D.
A preschool teacher observes two three-year-olds playing silently side by
side in a sandbox, each building a castle. Which of the following would be
the most appropriate conclusion for the teacher to draw in regard to this
behavior?
a. The children's play is advanced for their age and suggests that they may
be gifted learners
b. The children's play falls within the developmentally appropriate range for
preschoolers.
c. The children's play seems overly static and in need of intervention to
stimulate greater creativity
d. The children's play is typical of much younger children and suggests
significant developmental delays - B.
Which of the following types of peer relationships is most characteristic of
second-grade students?
a. A single-exclusive friendship
b. Small, same-gender groups
c. Popularity-based cliques
d. Fluid, heterogeneous gangs - B.
The curriculum in an early childhood program encourages young children
to become engaged in challenging activities that involve both planning and
problem solving. This aspect of the curriculum is most likely to promote the
children's ability to:
a. Adjust easily to unexpected changes in the daily schedule
b. Perform in the highest percentile on mandated tests
c. Approach new learning experiences with confidence
d. Maintain focus and concentration during academic instruction - C.
Which of the following would be the most effective method to use for
monitoring the progress of second-grade students in mathematics?
a. Administering a norm-referenced assessment midway through the
school year
b. Conducting frequent curriculum-based assessments
c. Administering a dynamic skills assessment at the beginning of each
instructional unit
d. Conducting a portfolio assessment at the end of the school year - B.
Which of the following reflects the best use of a developmental screening
checklist with preschool children?
a. To create a profile of children's individual learning styles
b. To determine whether individual children are eligible for special
education services
c. To identify children who are in need of more in-depth assessment in
specific areas
d. To modify instructional strategies for children with developmental delays
- C.
Which of the following assessment adaptations would be the most
appropriate to use with a first-grade English language learner?
a. Using a standardize test with multiple subtests
b. Presenting material nonverbally
c. Beginning the test at a lower age level
d. Using culturally relevant materials - D.
Which of the following assessment strategies would provide a kindergarten
teacher with the most comprehensive information about a student's oral
language development?
a. Observing the student during conversations with peers
b. Asking the student several questions that require yes or no responses
c. Listening to the student recite the alphabet
d. Having the student read a list of sight words aloud - A.
Which of the following is the most appropriate rationale for a team
approach when assessing young children?
a. Coordination of assessment results from a variety of disciplines
increased the effectiveness of instruction
b. Collaboration is an effective time-management strategy to complete
evaluations quickly
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c. Coordination of evaluations helps eliminate the need to recommend
more in-depth assessment
d. Collaboration among professional helps parents feel confident about the
reliability of the assessment results - A.
A first-grade teacher is participating in an initial special education
evaluation of a student in the teacher's class. In addition to documenting
the student's current level of academic performance, the teacher would
typically provide which of the following information to the evaluation team?
a. Plans to involve the family in the student's instructional program at home
b. Documentation of the student's complete developmental and medical
history
c. Plans to implement a new instructional strategy with the student
d. Documentation of the strategies and modifications to instruction that
have been tried with the student - D.
Which of the following is an ethical responsibility of a preschool teacher
regarding the assessment of young children?
a. Conducting testing in the same environment consistently
b. Respecting the privacy of the data that are collected
c. Inviting the family to participate in each session
D. Making the results available in a central location to school personnel - B.
Toward the end of a unit on animals, a second-grade class goes on a field
trip to the zoo. Upon returning, the teacher engages the students in a
discussion of what they saw and experiences at the zoo. Then, as an
evaluation exercise, the teacher asks that each student draw a picture with
a written description. This activity is characteristic of which of the following
assessment methods?
a. Criterion-referenced
b. Portfolio review
c. Task analysis
D. Performance based - D.
In general, children of preschool age feel most secure in educational
settings that:
a. Combine a large number of activity choices with frequent changes of
activity
b. Stress whole-class activities in which students perform specific tasks
under close teacher direction
c. Emphasize student-directed learning and a minimum of external
structure
d. Offer a balance of calm and active learning experiences in a predictable
and orderly environment - D.
A child in a preschool class continually tests the rules and disobeys the
teacher. The teacher decides that she can best meet the child's needs by
establishing clear limits and being consistent in imposing consequences for
misbehavior. Whenever disciplinary measures are necessary, the teacher
should ensure that the child understands that:
a. The consequences are a sign of the teacher's disappointment in the
child.
b. The child's misbehavior sets him or her apart from the other children
c. The consequences are a direct result of the child's misbehavior
d. The misbehavior represents a breach of trust the teacher - C.
A kindergarten teacher is arranging the classroom for the first day of
school. The teacher has planned a variety of whole-class and small-group
activities for the day. In the area of the room where whole-class meetings
will be held, the teacher lays out a carpet square for each child. The best
rationale for this practice is that it:
a. Provides an environmental cue that helps students understand what they
are expected to do
b. Encourages students to assemble quickly in order to obtain seats beside
their preferred classmates
c. Facilitates the teacher's performance of routine chores such as calling
roll
d. Communicates to each student that the teacher has confidence in his o
her ability to make good decisions - A.
Which of the following would be a third-grade teacher's best strategy for
ensuring that transitions in the classroom are accomplished with a
minimum of disruption and wasted time?
a. Offering rewards to the first few students to be seated at their desks and
prepared for a new activity
b. Teaching students a sequence of steps to follow when it is time to move
from one activity to the next
c. Imposing a consequence on the class if not everyone is ready for a new
activity after a given period of time
d. Choosing a few responsible students to circulate during transitions and
offer assistance as necessary - B.
A first-grade student with disabilities leaves his general education
classroom frequently to work with specialists in a resource room. The first-
grade teacher wants to ensure that the general education classroom
represents a positive and secure environment for this student. Which of the
following actions by the first-grade teacher would best foster the
achievement of this objective?
a. Asking the specialists in the resource room to emphasize to the student
that the general education classroom is his primary placement
b. Designing instruction that supports the student's development of
friendships and sense of belonging in the classroom community
c. Encouraging the student's parents to create ongoing opportunities for the
student to interact with the classmates outside of school
d. Providing an explanation to the class about the nature of the student's
disability and the services he receives in the resource room - B
A kindergarten teacher often uses blocks as learning tools in various areas
of the curriculum. The teacher is currently planning activities to promote the
children's problem-solving skills. Which of the following activities with
blocks would best support this objective?
a. Having children work in small groups to build a block structure that will
support a heavy book
b. Showing children assorted blocks on a tray, then removing one block
secretly and asking the children to identify which one was removed
c. Distributing a variety of blocks to pairs of children and asking the children
to sort the blocks by shape
d. Giving groups of children equivalent sets of rectangular blocks, then
challenging each group to build a structure that includes every block - A.
A first-grade teacher frequently takes advantage of the children's
enjoyment of creative movement to foster learning across the curriculum.
Which of the following would be the teacher's best strategy for using
creative movement to support vocabulary development?
a. Developing a new list each week of movement-related terms and having
the children memorize the terms and their definitions
b. Introducing various dance forms into the children's movement activities
and teaching relevant dance terminology in the process
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c. Asking each child at the beginning of movement activities to name one
type of movement he or she plans to use (jumping, skipping)
d. Commenting during movement activities on the movements made by the
children, using expressive language to describe the movements and the
mood they create - D.
Which of the following would be an early childhood teacher's best strategy
for promoting students' respect and appreciation for diversity?
a. Choosing one country or culture for students to study over the course of
the year
b. Planning periodic field trips to local institutions or agencies that del
regularly with issues of diversity
c. Ensuring that the perspectives and experiences of diverse peoples are a
consistent feature of the curriculum
d. Issuing an open invitation to the children's families to visit or volunteer in
the classroom - C.
Which of the following materials would most likely be appropriate for
promoting the fine motor development of four-year-old children?
a. Origami paper that the children can fold to make various objects
b. As assortment of wooden jigsaw puzzles containing from 8 to 25 pieces
c. Intricate paper shapes for the children to cut with scissors
d. A variety of colorful fabric squares, needles with blunt points, and heavy
thread - B.
A preschool teacher who works with four-year-old children should be most
concerned about the oral language development of a child who has
difficulty:
a. Using pronouns appropriately and consistently
b. Pronouncing words containing the /ch/ sound (chair, check)
c. Using relational terms consistently (then, when, while)
d. Describing recent events in which the child has participated - D.
During an upcoming open house, a preschool teacher plans to give a brief
presentation to parents/guardians about ways to promote their children's
language development. Which of the following recommendations would be
most appropriate for the teacher to include in this presentation?
A. "Be sure that you establish and maintain eye contact with your children
whenever you speak with them."
b. "If your child points to an object that he or she wants, say the name of
the object and require your child to say the word in order to be given the
object."
c. "Ask your children simple yes or no questions during conversations to
make sure they understand what you are saying."
d. "Talk to your child throughout the day and encourage him or her to
participate in conversations with family members as much as possible." - D.
A preschool teacher would like to improve students' listening skills during
morning circle time. Which of the following strategies would best promote
this goal?
a. Incorporating activities that require active listening (identifying the
sources of various sounds, listening for words that start with a specific
letter)
b. Reminding students to use their "good listening ears" whenever
important information is about to be presented
c. Presenting challenging concepts (yesterday, next week) that require
students to listen attentively in order to fully understand their meaning
d. Providing students with frequent verbal reminders to take turns and listen
to one another during circle time discussions - A.
A second-grade class includes two students who have language delays
and who tend to speak to peers and adults only when necessary. Which of
the following teacher strategies would be most effective for increasing the
students' use of oral language in the classroom?
a. Posting a chart for each of the two students that tallies the number of
times each of them communicates with others during the day
b. Scheduling a daily morning meeting that includes time for students to
voluntarily shape personal experiences with one another
c. Setting up small-group activities on a regular basis that require students
to talk to one another in order to complete assignments
d. Meeting with the two students individually at the end of the day to ask
them questions related to the day's lessons and activities - C.
Students in a kindergarten class are telling their teacher about a recent
class field trip. As the students share their experiences, the teacher writes
their thoughts on chart paper. The teacher then reads aloud what the
students have dictated. Which of the following describes the best rationale
for incorporating this type of activity into instruction?
a. To foster students' social skills by involving them in a cooperative
learning activity
b. To assess students' abilities to pay attention and recall events accurately
c. To foster students' literacy skills by building upon their oral language
skills
d. To assess students' abilities to comprehend material presented during
field trips - C.
Which of the following would be the most effective strategy for a
kindergarten teacher to use in promoting the communication skills of a
student who is an English language learner?
a. Proving opportunities for the student to read a favorite book aloud to the
class in the student's primary language
b. Facilitating the student's full participation in activities with peers
(exploring sand-table materials, role-playing in the class post office)
c. Spending time with the student during recess engaging in one-on-one
conversations
d. Helping the student label objects in the classroom in both English and
the student's primary language - B.
A third-grade teacher observes a new student who is an English language
learner using sentences that include both English words and words in the
student's primary language. Which of the following would be the teacher's
most appropriate response to this observation?
a. Ignoring the student's switching between languages and encouraging the
student's efforts to communicate with others
b. Asking a classmate who has strong verbal skills to serve as a buddy for
the student and help facilitate the student's conversations with others
c. Talking with the student to ensure that she is aware that she often mixes
the two languages when communicating
d. Providing the student with a bilingual dictionary to use to look up English
words that she needs for conversations - A.
Young children's development of a large oral vocabulary is likely to support
their future reading development most directly by:
a. Helping them discriminate between different parts of speech
b. Fostering their ability to decode digraphs and consonant blends
c. Preparing them to comprehend words encountered in print
d. Facilitating their ability to segment words into phonemes - C.
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A toddler teacher regularly engages children in oral word games and
encouraged their spontaneous generation of nonsense words and
sentences that rhyme. These practices help lay the foundations for formal
reading and writing instruction primarily by:
a. Providing opportunities for teaching sound-symbol relationships
b. Fostering children's understanding of the alphabetic nature of English
c. Providing opportunities for point out simple English spelling patterns
d. Fostering children's enjoyment of language play - D.
A kindergarten teacher regularly takes her class on walks through the
school and around the school grounds. During these walks, the teacher has
the children identify letters and words on signs, building, and vehicles. This
activity is particularly effective for promoting the children's:
a. Understanding of the alphabetic principle
b. Familiarity with environmental print
c. Ability to recognize sight words
d. Knowledge of conventional spelling patterns - B.
Which of the following teacher strategies would be most effective for
supporting children's recognition that in English print is read from left to
right?
a. Asking children to point to the capital letter at the beginning of each
sentence written on chart paper
b. Reading aloud a predictable storybook to the class and asking children
to join in
c. Having children dictate stories to the teacher and then draw illustration to
go with their stories
d. Pointing to each word of text while reading Big Books aloud to the class
on a regular basis - D.
During a literacy activity, a kindergarten teacher asks students to answer a
series of oral questions such as the ones shown below.
What sound is the same in cake, coat, and couch?
Which word does not belong? Pie, puddle, tooth, party
Which word ends the same way as kite?
nine, rose, cone, boat
This activity would best promote children's development of:
a. Phonemic Awareness
b. Word-Analysis skills
c. Alphabetic awareness
d. Decoding skills - A.
A first-grade teacher writes the following words on the board: said, are,
they, come, and was. In reviewing the spelling of these words with
students, the teacher should emphasize the concept that these words:
a. Do not follow phonics rules, so the students need to learn to recognize
and spell them as whole words
b. Can be easily rhymed with other common words that can serve as
models for how to spell these words
c. Are difficult to learn and should be looked up in a dictionary to confirm
the correct spelling
d. Contain unusual letter-sound correspondences that must be understood
in order to spell them - A.
The student writing sample that appears below exemplifies which of the
following stages of development?
"I that he racked the leaves all reddy!"
I thought he raked the leave already!
a. semi phonetic
b. phonetic
c. transitional
d. conventional - C. In the transitional stage of spelling, children become
less dependent on phonology, or letter sounds, and begin incorporating
their emerging knowledge of visual representations and word structure
Which of the following students entering first grade should be considered at
the highest risk of experiencing difficulties in learning to read?
a. A student with incomplete mastery of letter-sound correspondences
b. A student with limited oral language development
c. A student with an incomplete grasp of phonics generalizations
d. A student with limited knowledge of syllable structure - B.
Which of the following assessment strategies would provide the best
measure of a student's mastery of the alphabetic principle?
a. Asking the student to identify by name a series of visually presented
uppercase and lowercase letters
b. Having the student read aloud a list of high-frequency irregular sight
words
c. Asking the student to segment a series of orally presented words into
their component sounds
d. Having a student read aloud a list of phonetically regular nonsense
words - D.
A kindergartener is reading a story to a doll. The children's cannot yet
actually read but is retelling a story that was read aloud earlier in the day.
During this activity, the child moves a finger along the liens of text and
points out pictures to the doll. This behavior most strongly suggests that the
child has developed:
a. Skill in recognizing individual letters and sight words
b. Knowledge of letter-sound relationships
c. Understanding that written symbols convey meaning
d. An extensive receptive and expressive vocabulary - C.
A kindergarten student has developed phonemic awareness and has
learned the most common sounds represented by the letters a, d, f, i, m, o,
r, s, and t. Which of the following lessons would be most effective to plan
next for a student at this stage of reading development?
a. Writing and outlining shapes of words such as mad and sad
b. Learning to read high-frequency words such as to and do
c. Sounding out and blending the letters in words such as mat and sat
d. Learning to rhyme words such as sit and fit - C.
For students in the partial alphabetic stage of word reading, which of the
following activities would be most appropriate for reinforcing explicit
phonics instruction?
a. Writing independently using invented spelling
b. Generating rhyming words with high-frequency spelling patterns
c. Acting out action words that start with known letter sounds
d. Selecting and reading picture books independently - A.
Beginning readers are likely to have the most difficultly decoding which of
the following word types?
a. CVCe words, such as ride
b.VCC words, such as ask
c. CVCC words, such as fast
d. CVC words, such as map - A.
To help determine instructional reading levels at the beginning of the
school year, a second-grade teacher would like to assess students' sight-
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word vocabulary. To gather this information, the teacher would most
appropriately engage each student in reading:
a. A list of nonsense words
b. Selected sections from the student's favorite book
c. Published lists of high-frequency words
d. A passage from the second-grade basal reader - C.
Showing young readers how to make a story map is an effective strategy
for helping them:
a. Communicate their individual responses to particular texts
c. Understand the relationships between main events, characters, and
ideas in a text
c. Activate their prior knowledge before reading unfamiliar texts
d. Recognizing the importance of illustrations, dialogue, and narrative in
conveying a text's meaning - B.
A third-grade teacher would like to help students find information about
butterflies in a book of insects. Which of the following instructional
strategies is likely to be most effective for this purpose?
a. Activating students' prior knowledge by asking them to find photographs
of butterflies in the book
b. Previewing relevant vocabulary words in the book's glossary
c. Asking students to scan the ebook for key words related to butterflies
d. Using an overhead transparency to demonstrate how to use the book's
table of contents - D.
A small group of students in a second-grade class reads the first page of a
story silently as their teacher reads it aloud. After reading the first page, the
teacher leads a brief discussion on what has happened in the story so far.
At this point in the activity, which of the following would be the teacher's
best approach for motivating the students to read the rest of the story
independently while the teacher works with another group of students?
a. Telling the students some interesting biographical details about the
author's life
b. Asking the students to generate predictions about what might happen in
the story
c. Having the students complete a cloze exercise featuring words they will
encounter in the story
d. Assigning the students to create a dramatization of the story after they
have finished reading it - B.
Activities such as reading poems chorally and singing songs are likely to be
most effective for promoting students' ability to recognize and respond to
which of the following literary elements?
a. Theme
b. Simile and metaphor
c. Setting
d. Rhyme and meter - D.
To enhance reading comprehension, an early elementary teacher wants
students to develop the habit of asking questions about what they are
reading. The teacher begins by explaining that questioning can be an
effective tool for increasing comprehension. The best step for the teacher
to take next would be to:
a. Model the use of the strategy bye pausing to ask questions about a text
while reading it to the class
b. Ask students to read a photocopied text into which the teacher has
inserted questions at key points
c. Give the class a list of generic questions to ask as they do their assigned
reading for that evening
d. Have students work in small groups to generate questions about a
content area reading selection - A.
At the beginning of the school year, a third-grade teacher tells students that
they will be keeping literature logs in which they will write about the books
they read. Which of the following directions by the teacher would best help
ensure that the logs foster students' thoughtful response to literature?
a. "Include a brief summary of the plot to convey a sense of the tone and
genre of the work."
b. "After you have made an entry about a book, ask a classmate to read
what you have written."
c. "Try to vary the form or style of your writing so that your log entries don't
all start sounding alike."
d. "Focus on what you think or feel about a book and give reasons for your
reactions." - D.
A first-grade student wants to write about a trip he took to a park over the
weekend, but he is unsure what to write. Which of the following would be
an effective prewriting strategy for the teacher to use with this student?
a. Reading aloud to the student a story that takes place in a park
b. Asking the student a series of true or false questions about the park
c. Providing the student with a list of vocabulary words related to the park
d. Having the student audio-record his thoughts about the trip - D.
Which of the following is the most important factor in an English language
learner's ability to develop writing skills in English?
a. The student's understanding of the steps in the writing process
b. The student's level of literacy development in the primary language
c. The student's acquisition of a wide range of English vocabulary words
d. The student's level of familiarity with various written genres - B.
During a science unit on dinosaurs, second0grade students write down
three facts they have learned about one type of dinosaur and draw a
picture that illustrates those three facts. This student activity is likely to be
most helpful in preparing students for which of the following types of
writing?
a. Descriptive
b. Narrative
c. Persuasive
d. Comparative - A
During a science unit on ecology, students in a third-grade class decide to
start a class project of saving paper for recycling. The teacher plans to
integrate writing instruction with the project. Which of the following writing
tasks would likely be most effective for developing students' ability to write
to a specific audience?
a. A progress report on the project for a classroom bulletin board
b. Personal journal entries describing the students' participation in the
project
c. An announcement about the project for a calendar of upcoming class
events
d. A letter to the school principal describing benefits of the project - D.
Which of the following statements best describes how the use of invented
spellings of English words reflects a stage of writing development in
English language learners?
a. Invented Spellings indicate an awareness of letter-sound
correspondence
b. Invented spellings are evidence of learned phonetic errors that require
targeted intervention
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c. Invented spellings indicate a discrepancy between listening and
speaking comprehension
d. Invented spellings are evidence of appropriate language transfer of
phonetic rules from the primary language - A.
A preschooler shows the teacher a recently completed drawing. The child
says, "this is a house". Then, pointing to a series of jagged lines around the
picture, the child ass, "this says, my house, a big, white house". This child
is most clearly demonstrating awareness that:
a. Words consist of joined letters
b. Writing represents spoken language
c. Sentences consist of discrete words
d. Letters represent specific sounds - B.
In a writing program for emergent writers, a preschool teacher's primary
emphasis should be on encouraging the children to:
a. Write grammatically complete sentences
b. Form letters of the alphabet clearly and correctly
c. Write often and for a variety of real purposes
d. Achieve conventional spelling as early as possible - C.
Which of the following would be a teacher's best strategy for promoting
writing development in four-year-old children?
a. Scheduling daily practice writing letters using paper with widely spaced
heavy lines
b. Placing writing materials throughout the classroom's various learning
centers and play areas
c. Providing worksheets on which children trace large letters and numerals
d. Using a commercial handwriting series that starts by teaching correct
hand and arm motions - B.
The speed of the basic underlying beat of a musical composition is called
the:
a. Scale
b. Key
c. Tempo
d. Dynamics - C.
Which of the following would be the most appropriate type of printmaking
activity for kindergarten-age students?
a. Wood-block printing
b. Silk-screen printing
c. Stamp printing
d. Linoleum block printing - C.
To promote creative development in young children when they are creating
hand- or finger-paintings, the children should be encourage to:
a. Create representations of people, objects, and scenes from their
everyday lives
b. Identify the colors they are using in their paintings
c. Use different parts of their hands to explore how each part makes a
different kind of mark
d. Describe to an adult what they are depicting in their paintings - C.
As part of a science unit on plant growth, a third-grade teacher has each
student plant a seed in a container and care for it as it grows. Once a week,
the students are asked to draw a picture of their plant as it appears that
day, then compare the pictures and note the changes that occur over time.
This activity best illustrates how the visual arts can be used to help
students develop:
a. Flexible thinking
b. Observational skills
c. Eye-hand coordination
d. Problem-solving skills - B.
A preschool teacher is creating a music center for a classroom of three-
and four-year-olds. Which of the following musical instruments would be
most appropriate to include for children of this age?
a. Drums, rhythm sticks, and bells
b. Small keyboards and accordions
c. Recorders, kazoos, and flutes
d. Guitars and autoharps - A.
Which of the following arts-related activities is most likely to contribute to
young children's understanding of the mathematical concept of pattern?
a. Mixing paints to create different colors
b. Practicing rhythmic dance movements
c. Cutting squares of paper into snowflakes
d. Identifying musical instruments by their sounds - B.
Which of the following activities in a first-grade classroom would be
integrate social skills learning with arts learning?
a. Divided into small groups, children learn folk dances from different
cultures to perform to each other
b. Students take turns pantomiming an idea while others ask questions to
guess what they are representing
c. As a holiday project, students create and paint pottery shapes as gifts for
parents/guardians
d. The class plans and works together to design and create a thematic
mural with paint and collage - D.
A three-year-old child makes a scribble with a crayon and tells the teacher,
"this is my kitty". Which of the following responses by the teacher would be
most developmentally appropriate?
a. Asking the child to point out the head or tail
b. Expressing interest in and enjoyment of the drawing
c. Suggesting that the child add legs or ears
d. Showing the child a book that has pictures of cats - B.
The children in a kindergarten class become very excited about a new story
heard during story time and repeatedly ask the teacher to read it again.
When the teacher proposes that the class act out the story, the children
respond with enthusiasm. The teacher's most developmentally appropriate
goal for this activity would be for the children to:
a. Acquire the vocal and gestural skills to develop characterization and
advance a plot
b. Explore and express their own ideas and feelings about the story
c. Recognize the differences between a story written to be read and a play
written to be performed
d. Present a scripted dramatization of the story to an audience - B.
Which of the following is most significant risk to young children posed by
environmental exposure to lead through paint or other sources?
a. Neurological impairment
b. Respiratory disease
c. Skeletal abnormalities
d. High blood pressure - A.
An early childhood teacher strongly suspects that a child in her class has
conjunctivitis (pinkeye). Which of the following actions would be most
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appropriate for the teacher to take in an attempt to prevent the spread of
this infection to other children?
a. Have children who have been playing with the child use a hand sanitizer
frequently throughout the day
b. Send home a note advising students' parents/guardians of the symptoms
of pinkeye
c. Separate the child from the rest of the class for the remainder of the day
d. Contact the child's parents/guardians immediately to discuss her
concerns and request that they seek medical attention for their child - D.
A preschool teacher bring a group of four-year-old children outside to plan
on a playground with various types of equipment. Which of the following
gross motor activities would likely be most appropriate for children in this
age group?
a. Riding tricycles on a level surface
b. Playing an organized game of kickball
c. Running relay races
d. Jumping rope while chanting a rhyme - A.
A kindergarten teacher is planning a unit on dental hygiene. Which of the
following would be most appropriate student learning goal for the unit?
a. Recognizing the major parts of a tooth and their functions
b. Demonstrate proper techniques for brushing teeth
c. Understand what happens to teeth when decay occurs
d. Plan meals that would support the development of healthy teeth - B.
A toddler teacher schedules outdoor playtime every day. On days when the
weather is very warm, which of the following safety practices would be
most important for the teacher to follow?
a. Waiting until late afternoon before taking the children outdoors
b. Asking families to provide shorts and sandals for their children to wear
outdoors
c. Having the children take breaks and drink fluid while they are outdoors
d. Limiting children's outdoor play to quiet activities that do not involve
physical exertion - C.
Which of the following would be the most effective way for a preschool
teacher to build students' understanding of good nutritional practices?
a. Setting up a kitchen activity center furnished with toy food items and
child-size appliances and utensils
b. Having children assist int he preparation of nutrias snacks as a part of
the daily classroom routine
c. Displaying posters that use appealing illustrations to convey important
messages about healthy eating
d. Visiting the school cafeteria to watch a dietician plan and oversee the
preparation of lunch - B.
Students in a third-grade class have been engaged in a multidisciplinary
unit focused on learning about class members' cultural and ethnic
backgrounds. The teacher decides to include folk dances as a component
of the unit to integrate cultural learning with the promotion of physical
fitness. Folk dancing would likely be especially effective for promoting
physical fitness in the area of:
a. Muscular strength
b. Flexibility
c. Cardiovascular endurance
d. Bone density - C.
A child in an early childhood class has cerebral palsy. The child is able to
maintain stability while standing and walking and can grip with her left
hand, but she has difficulty using her hand to lift. Which of the following
would be the teacher's best modification of a movement activity in which
the whole class will wave a parachute up and down?
a. Positioning the child between classmates in a way that allows her to hold
on while they control the up-and-down motion
b. Introducing a related activity in which the child and a classmate duck
under the parachute as it is being lifted by the other children
c. Redesigning the activity to have the class hold the parachute in their left
hands and rotate it by walking around in a circle
d. Appointing the child to act as the activity director by counting the beat as
the class raises and lowers the parachute - A.
A pair of first-grade students uses a 2.5 inch block to measure the length of
a table. The students use a 5 inch block to measure a different table of the
same length. They announce to the teacher that the first table is longer
than the second table. The teacher then measures the two tables with a
ruler and shows the students that the two tables are the same length. This
situation could be most appropriately used for introducing the students to
which of the following mathematical concepts?
a. Geometric shapes
b. Standard units of measure
c. Conservation of number
d. Perimeter and area - B.
A kindergarten teacher keeps a large calendar on the classroom wall. Each
morning, the teacher and the children discuss the weather, and the children
decide whether they should place a sun or a cloud on the calendar. Which
of the following teacher-led activities would be most effective and
developmentally appropriate for integrating math into this science activity?
a. Creating weather picture graph and updating it daily
b. Asking the children to decide each morning whether it is sunnier or
cloudier than the day before
c. Adding a yellow marble to a jar for every day it is sunny
d. Recording the daily temperature and correlating it to cloudy and sunny
days - A.
In a bag of marbles, 2 are blue, 3 are free, and 3 are red. What is the
probability that a marble drawn at random from the bag will be blue?
a. 1/8
b. 1/4
c. 1/3
d. 1/2 - B.
1 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4
If the pattern show above where extended, which arrow would be in the
13th position?
a. 4
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3 - C.
Which of the following behaviors by a child demonstrates an understanding
of one-to-one correspondence?
a. Placing blue and red balls in separate containers
b. Identifying objects in a room that come in pairs
c. Counting a group of ten objects by touching each object while saying its
number aloud
d. Matching a puzzle piece with the number five to a puzzle piece with five
apples on it - C.
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Express the following words as number. F
Fifty-six --> 506
Twenty-five--> 205
The student who made the errors shown in the exercise above would
benefit most from which of the following activities?
a. Practicing basic math facts
b. Reviewing the concept of "0" as a placeholder when writing numerals
c. Using unit cubes to represent numbers in base 5
d. Arranging groups of base 10 blocks and writing the numerals
represented - D.
A third-grade student has solved a word problem correctly but has not
shown any of the work. The teacher can best assess the student's
conceptual understanding of the problem by asking the student to:
a. Solve additional similar problems
b. Determine if the answer is reasonable
c. Explain the steps to arrive at the answer
d. Create a similar type of word problem - C.
The box has a depth of 4 ft, a height or 3 ft, and a width of 2 ft. What is the
surface area of the box that will be covered with paint?
a. 24 sq. ft.
b. 30 sq. ft.
c. 52 sq. ft
d. 60 sq. ft - C.
The Constitution of the United States delegates which of the following roles
to the executive branch of the U.S. government?
a. Interpreting federal laws
b. Negotiating treaties
c. Regulating interstate commerce
d. Levying taxes - B.
A kindergarten teacher uses the space above eye level on all four walls of
the classroom to create an "in the round" pictorial calendar. On it the
teacher shows months and days and marks significant events such as
holidays and students' birthdays with a symbol or picture. This approach
can be expected to benefit students' learning primarily by:
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a. Promoting students' ability to use precise and accurate time
classifications
b. Proving meaningful reference points to help students visualize basic time
concepts
c. Fostering in students an understanding of their own history and location
in time
d. Helping students recognize relationships between events and people
through time - B.
Students in a kindergarten class have rotating responsibilities for classroom
tasks such as watering the plants, setting the table for snacks, and
organizing learning center materials. This approach is likely to be most
effective in promoting students' understanding of which of the following
concepts?
a. Equality
b. Government
c. Community
d. Independence - C.
A teacher wishes to integrate social studies content across the curriculum
in a class of four-year-olds. The teacher can best achieve this goal by
adopting which of the following approaches?
a. Engaging children in large-group projects that are based on social
studies content
b. Creating one classroom learning center that presents children with a
broad range of social studies content
c. Choosing an overall theme for learning activities that focuses on social
studies content
d. Using primarily social studies content to develop children's problem-
solving skills - C.
First grade students have just completed a social studies unit on money in
which they learned that goods are tangible items that people buy with
money. The teacher is planning a new unit about community helpers and
their roles. In the context of this new unit, the teacher can best extend
students' understanding of basic economics by introducing which of the
following concepts?
a. Services
b. Profit and loss
c. Scarcity
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d. Supply and demand - A.
The spread of cultural ideas and activities throughout different regions of
the world is most often a consequence of which of the following geographic
activities?
a. Alterations in patterns of land use
b. The interaction between humans and the environment
c. Innovation in products and practices
d. The movement of people, goods, and services - D.
Involvement in which of the following classroom experiences can best
contribute to young children's development of the idea of democracy?
a. Role-playing using dress-up clothes from various cultures
b. Choosing whether to work with a partner or alone on a project
c. Generating a list of rules for classroom behavior
d. Cleaning up play areas after activities in them are finished - C.
Which of the following practices would best promote preschool children's
understanding of and respect for human diversity?
a. Displaying posters and photographs showing rural, village, and urban
scenes from many different countries
b. During circle time, inviting students to talk about items or practices seen
on family trips that were different from what they are familiar with
c. Sponsoring a dress-up day on which children are encouraged to wear
clothing and costumes representing their own cultural heritage
d. During reading time, choosing stories and picture books that feature
individuals from a wide range of traditions - D.
Students in a third--grade class are researching and writing reports on
types of animals in various regions. Their teacher could best help the
students organize their ideas and information for writing by discussing:
a. The different between facts and opinions
b. How to create and use an outline
c. The difference between an active voice and a passive voice
d. How to record data in a flowchart - B.
A characteristic of living things that distinguishes them from nonliving things
is that only living things:
a. Absorb energy from sunlight
b. Are made up of cells
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c. Change physically over time
d. Contain carbon atoms - B.
Magnifying glasses would be most useful for helping kindergartners
observe:
a. The protozoa in pond water
b. The cells in plant leaves
c. The parts of an insect's mouth
d. The bacteria in yogurt - C.
A second-grade teacher places a freshly cut white carnation into a glass
that is filled with water that has been dyed dark blue with food coloring.
During the day, the children observe the carnation as the blue water rises
in the stem and eventually causes the petals of the flower to turn blue. This
activity would be most appropriate for modeling which of the following
scientific concepts?
a. Photosynthesis
b. The water cycle
c. Nutrient absorption
d. Conservation of matter - C.
Which of the following would be the most appropriate way for a teacher to
integrate science and language arts in a lesson for a first-grade class?
a. Asking children to think of words that can be used to describe butterflies
b. Helping the class write a story in which butterflies act like humans
c. Having children label the body parts on a diagram of a butterfly
d. Helping children use a guidebook to identify the butterflies they see while
on a walk - A.
A second-grade teacher helps the children in her class record the
temperature outside the building each morning for two weeks. The children
also note if it is sunny, cloudy, or raining when the temperature is recorded.
At the end of the two weeks, the children chart their temperature values on
graph paper and see if there is any relationship between temperature and
weather conditions. This activity will be most effective for helping children
practice which of the following science skills?
a. Describing and classifying phenomena
b. Designing and using scientific models
c. Formulating and testing hypotheses
d. Collecting data and drawing conclusions - D.
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Over a two-month period, a kindergarten teacher has taken pictures of the
phases of the moon. During that time, the teacher and students have
pasted each new picture on the corresponding date on a large calendar.
The class has had several lively discussions about the students' own
observations of the moon and its changing appearance. In the context of
developing students' science skills, which of the following questions would
be most appropriate for the teacher to pose at this time?
a. Do you think the moon is larger or smaller than Earth?
b. What do you think the moon will look like tomorrow night?
c. Where do you think the moon came from?
d. What other things would you like to know about the moon? - B.
Giving three-year-olds access to water or sand tables and a variety of
containers would most effectively promote their early exploration of which
of the following physical science concepts?
a. Conservation of mass
b. Forces and motions
c. Properties of materials
d. Energy transfer - C.
As part of a science unit, a second-grade teacher has students work in
groups to build mounds of sand and dirt in a corner of the school yard. The
teacher then supplies the students with small watering pails and asks them
to pour water on their mounds and take notes on what they observe. This
activity would best build students' understanding of which of the following
natural processes?
a. Abrasion
d. Deformation
c. Erosion
d. Subduction - C.
Which of the following activities in a preschool classroom would provide the
best opportunity to foster children's understanding of concepts related to
chemistry?
a. Blowing on balloons to keep them airborne
b. Scooping sand and pouring it through a sieve
c. Creating design with a sand pendulum
d. Mixing ingredients and baking cookies - D.
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When planning the agenda for a conference with the family of a young child
who is enrolled in an early childhood program, it is most important to
include time for:
a. The teacher to explain the rationale for using particular assessment
strategies with young children
b. The family to describe their own observations of and goals for their child
c. The teacher to provide information about various resources for children
and families in the community
d. The family to learn more about volunteer opportunities at the school - B.
An early childhood teacher makes arrangements for a home visit with the
family of a child who will be entering the educator's preschool class. Which
of the following would be the most important message for the teacher to
convey during such a visit?
a. The school respects and values the family's central role in the child's
development and learning
b. The child's world will significantly change and expand with his or her
entry into preschool
c. The school district has a large number of resources available for
promoting the welfare of families
D. The child's success at school will depend largely on the level of support
he or she receives at home - A.
An early childhood teacher would like to set up a page on the school's
Internet Web site as a way of sharing information with families (e.g.,
upcoming classroom events, displays of children's artwork, activities that
families can do together at home). Before implementing this plan, it would
be most important for the teacher to address which of the following
questions?
a. How will families be informed about the existence of the Web site and
encouraged to use it?
b. How often should the information be updated and who will be
responsible for doing so?
c. How will the information be communicated to families who do not have
Internet access?
d. How long should exhibits such as children's artwork remain on the Web
site before being removed? - C.
At the beginning of the school year, a first-grade teacher learns that one of
the students in his class comes from a culture with which he is unfamiliar.
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The teacher wishes to promote the child's development and learning in a
culturally sensitive manner. Which of the following would likely be the best
resource for the teacher to consult under these circumstances?
a. A community group that includes members from the student's culture
b. The Internet
c. Colleagues who are familiar with the student's culture
d. The student's family - D.
A preschool teacher has arranged for a nutritionist from a local public
health agency to make a presentation on young children's nutrition at the
next meeting for families. The teacher's best preparation for ensuring a
meaningful presentation would be to provide the speaker with:
a. An outline that indicates the teacher's preferred content and format for
the presentation
b. Multiple copies of the current federal guidelines on nutrition for young
children
c. Survey results showing the nutrition topics the children's families are
most interested in hearing about
d. Examples of poor nutritional choices the teacher has seen families make
for their children over the years - C.
Under which of the following circumstances would an early childhood
teacher most likely engage in ongoing information sharing with a social
worker in regard to a child in the teacher's class?
a. The child and his or her family have recently immigrated to the United
States
b. The child is transitioning from foster care back to his or her family
c. The child's parents'/guardians' work schedules require that the child be
picked up by babysitters
d. The child's parents/guardians have begun divorce proceedings - B.
a third-grade student with a disability attends a general education
classroom and works with the special education teacher in the resource
room once a week. The general education teacher's best strategy for
working with the special education teacher to meet the student's
educational needs would be to:
a. Confer regularly with the special education teacher to ensure that
resource room and classroom activities support each other
b. Arrange for the special education teacher to submit a monthly report on
the student's progress in specific areas
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c. Provide the special education teacher with lesson plans in order to align
resource room instruction with classroom instruction
d. Meet with the student and the special education teacher at the end of
each week to discuss that week's resource room activities - A>
Several children who have Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) will
attend a kindergarten class in the upcoming year. To help implement the
IEPs, several specialists will provide services in the classroom
environment. The most effective first step for the kindergarten teacher to
take in building a collaborative relationship with the specialists would be to:
a. Suggest using a single method of problem solving
b.Propose that intervention ideas be reached by consensus
c. Arrange a regular time for sharing information
d. Assume primary responsibility for decision making - C.
An early childhood teacher is beginning to create a professional
development plan. Which of the following steps should be taken earliest in
the planning process?
a. Determining the documentation methods
b.Setting short and long term goals
c. Defining how progress will be measured
d. Identifying supporting resources - B.
An early childhood teacher keeps a daily journal that includes such topics
as activities that went well in the classroom, lessons that did not go as
expected, and thoughts about how to make adjustments in the future. This
teacher's behavior best reflects an awareness of the importance of:
a. Engaging in ongoing reflection about professional practice
b. Documenting classroom events to protect oneself from liability
c. Developing detailed plans for instruction ad learning activities
d. Making careful observations of children for assessment purposes - A.
In which of the following situations is an early childhood teacher serving in
the role of advocate for a preschool program?
a. The teacher meets with the district superintendent to present data in
support of increasing the preschool program's budget
b. The teacher volunteers to organize a series of workshops for teachers
and aides involved in the preschool program
c. The teacher serves on a committee to review and update the student
handbook for the elementary school in which the preschool is located
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d. The teacher provides information and answers questions about the
preschool program at a family orientation meeting - A
The Individualized Education Program (IEP) for a kindergartner with a
disability specifies that a particular type of assistive technology device be
provided as an instructional accommodation. In this situation, the
kindergarten teacher's primary responsibility is to:
a. Research the expense of various devices that would achieve similar
outcomes for the child
b. Ensure that the child has access to the device as needed throughout the
school day
c. Assist the child's family in locating sources of funding for purchasing the
device
d. Train other staff who interact with the child in the proper operation of the
device - B.
Which of the following is a primary role of the National Association for the
Education of Young Children (NAEYC) in early childhood education?
a. Mediating contract negotiations between teachers and employers
b. Coordinating regulatory oversight of early childhood programs
c. Providing professional development opportunities and resources
d. Overseeing the disbursement of grant money to programs - C.
When picking up his child at preschool, a father asks the teacher about
another child in the class. The father says that several other parents have
expressed concern about a hardship the child's family is facing. The
teacher has, in fact, been in ongoing communication with the child's family
about the situation. From an ethical standpoint, the teacher's most
appropriate response would be to:
a. Make a general statement to the effect that the school staff members are
aware of the situation and are addressing it
b.Suggest that those who feel concerned would be better advised to speak
with the family directly than to speculate among themselves
c.Disavow knowledge of any such situation and assure the father that if a
problem comes to light, the school will respond appropriately
d. Tell the father that for reasons of confidentiality she is unable to speak
with him about children other than his own - D.
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The increasing diversity in family structures, roles, and responsibilities is a
social trend that early childhood educators need to be aware of primarily in
order to:
a. Establish effective classroom management strategies
b. Identify students in need of special education services
c. Work effectively with members of the school community
d.Apply for federal and state grants for supplemental curriculum materials -
C.
Which of the following activities is generally considered to fall within the
early childhood teacher's role as an advocate for young children and their
families?
a. Applying research-based instructional strategies
b. Collaborating with community-based services and institutions
c. Administrating state-mandated alternative assessments
d. Participating in ongoing professional development - B.
A second-grade teacher is participating in a team meeting to develop an
Individualized Education Program (IEP) for a student. In this role, the
teacher is responsible for providing information about the student's:
a. Developmental history
b. Present level of performance
c. Family's need for community services
d. Medical history - B.
In his developmental theories, Jean Piaget sought to explain which of the
following?
a. how maturation, activity, and interpersonal experiences interact to
influence cognitive development
b. how caregiver responsiveness influences social and emotional
development
c. how internal needs, desires, and conflicts interact to influence personality
development
d. how guidance from knowledgeable others influences intellectual
development - A.
Which of the following informal assessment tools would be most useful for
documenting a preschool child's ability to perform specific skills?
A. an interview
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B. a rating scale
C. a worksheet
D. a running record - B.
Which of the following would be a second-grade teacher's best strategy for
promoting all students' sense of competence and motivation to learn?
A. emphasizing homogeneous grouping to minimize comparisons between
students who perform at different levels
B. differentiating instruction to present each student with tasks that can be
achieved with persistence
C. creating frequent opportunities for friendly competitions such as spelling
bees and math bees
D. offering praise for the completion of work regardless of a student's level
of effort or the quality of the final product - B.
As part of the regular daily schedule, a second-grade teacher reads a story
aloud and discusses it with the class. Several students are English
Language Learners, and the teacher wants to use the discussions to
promote and extend these students' oral language skills. Which of the
following would be the teacher's best strategy for achieving this goal?
A. meeting with the English Language Learners beforehand to preteach
key vocabulary and make connections to their prior knowledge
B. asking the English Language Learners to repeat the teacher's questions
in statement form as a preface to their responses
C. holding the discussions in two sessions, one for the English Language
Learners and the other for native English speakers
D. using the discussions as a regular opportunity to give feedback on the
English language learners' progress in English language production - A.
Four-year-old Kima draws a picture of a girl. She then writes the letter K all
around the edges of the paper, remarking, "This is my name. It says Kima."
This behavior suggests that Kima has attained some understanding of:
A. the function of print.
B. how to decode words.
C. the alphabetic principle.
D. how to track print. - A.
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Which of the following would be the most effective way for a third-grade
teacher to promote students' comprehension of a new chapter they are
about to begin reading in their science textbook?
A. having students skim the chapter, write down any unfamiliar words, and
look up the words in a dictionary
B. assigning students to small groups in which the members take turns
reading sections of the text out loud
C. holding a brief discussion of the word identification strategies the class
has learned and listing the strategies on the board
D. helping the class generate a chart of what they know about the subject
and what they would like to learn - D.
In a class of three year olds, which of the following would be the teacher's
best strategy for fostering the development of the fine-motor skills
prerequisite for writing?
A. providing children with thick pencils to use to trace the outlines of letters
and shapes
B. engaging children in activities such as doing fingerplays and playing with
interlocking blocks and beads
C. involving children in singing activities in which they clap the rhythms of
the songs
D. engaging children in art activities such as fingerpainting and making
prints of their hands in plaster - B.
A first-grade teacher is planning an art activity in which students will
explore texture. Which of the following activities would best foster students'
understanding of this visual art concept?
A. easel painting
B. sketching
C. crayon rubbing
D. cutting and pasting - C.
In terms of student safety, which of the following features of a school
playground should a kindergarten teacher be most concerned about?
A. The swings do not provide back support or seat belts.
B. The surface below the climbing structure consists of packed earth.
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C. The platform at the top of the slide is five feet high.
D. The playing area includes a blacktop made of asphalt. - B.
In a third-grade class, each student stands on a large sheet of 1-inch graph
paper while a partner creates an outline of the student's foot by tracing
around it. Students then count the number of squares inside each outline.
This activity would best help students understand the mathematical
concept of:
A. perimeter.
B. volume.
C. proportion.
D. area. - D.
hich of the following represents a third-grade teacher's best strategy for
integrating art with the study of local history?
A. contacting local organizations, such as the town offices and the historical
society, to obtain brochures and other materials to use in a collage
B. posting pictures of notable historical figures when teaching a lesson on
important events and issues in local history
C. distributing cardboard templates of historical images, such as log
houses or horses and buggies, for students to use to create scenes from
the past
D. looking at local historical paintings and comparing features of daily life in
earlier times, such as clothing and transportation, with those of today - D.
Which of the following animals is classified as a vertebrate?
A. butterfly
B. hummingbird
C. earthworm
D. jellyfish - B.
A first-grade student with a disability is frequently pulled out from her
general education classroom to receive services in the resource room. The
first-grade teacher feels that the student is missing not only important
instruction, but also opportunities to develop ties with her classmates.
Which of the following would be the first-grade teacher's best initial
response?
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A. scheduling a meeting with the school principal to emphasize the need to
take immediate action
B. rearranging the instructional schedule in the classroom to accommodate
the student's resource-room schedule
arranging to meet with the special education teacher to C. present his or
her concerns and discuss how best to proceed
D. limiting the time the student spends in the resource room to one half-
hour session per day - C.
A young child with developmental delays has an Individualized Family
Service Plan (IFSP). The child will soon turn three, at which point he will
enter a general education preschool program. Which of the following is a
key responsibility of the general education preschool teacher in this
situation?
A. working closely with the child's family and service providers to promote a
smooth transition
B. obtaining permission to review the child's complete medical history in
preparation for the child's entry
C. informing the families of other children in the program of the child's
upcoming enrollment
D. submitting a formal request for a paraprofessional to provide support in
the child's preschool classroom - A.
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