ILTS Early Childhood Education (206) Exam Questions and Answers Graded A 2024
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In a kindergarten classroom, the teacher has set out several wordless books for the children to look at. Periodically, she asks one of her children to "read" the book to her. Asking the children to participate in this activity will be most effective as a way to -Correct Answer develop the children'...
ILTS Early Childhood Education (206) Exam
Questions and Answers Graded A 2024
In a kindergarten classroom, the teacher has set out several wordless books for the
children to look at. Periodically, she asks one of her children to "read" the book to her.
Asking the children to participate in this activity will be most effective as a way to -
Correct Answer ✔develop the children's oral language skills.
A 2 year old boy is sitting in a high chair. As he says "swing" to his caregiver, he turns
and points toward the door. When the caregiver picks up the boy and carries him to the
door, he points to a swingset in the yard. The caregiver opens the door and puts the boy
down, and he walks eagerly toward the swingset.
In this exchange with his caregiver, the boy has conveyed the meaning by using what? -
Correct Answer ✔holophrase
holophrase -Correct Answer ✔use of a single word
recursion -Correct Answer ✔repeating items in a self-similar way
overextension -Correct Answer ✔"doggie" is referred to all 4 legged animals and
"daddy" is referred to all men
underextension -Correct Answer ✔happens very early in language development around
18 months. The child knows the word "dog" but only applies it to his dog rather than all
the other dogs he encounters
A 2 year old boy is sitting in a high chair. As he says "swing" to his caregiver, he turns
and points toward the door. When the caregiver picks up the boy and carries him to the
door, he points to a swingset in the yard. The caregiver opens the door and puts the boy
down, and he walks eagerly toward the swingset.
In this situation, the caregiver could best promote the boy's communication and
language development by -Correct Answer ✔engaging him in conversation about the
swing
The families of young children who are learning English as a new language are
significantly more likely to collaborate with teachers when they -Correct Answer ✔have
on-going opportunities to provide input to their child's education
When learning English, what language skills do young children from diverse language
backgrounds typically master first? -Correct Answer ✔speaking with other children while
playing
A 1st grade teacher has an English Language Learner in her class whose home
language is Russian. The teacher makes it a practice to have the class count objects
ILTS Early Childhood Education (206) Exam
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and say the names of the months and days of the week in Russian. This practice is
most likely to promote -Correct Answer ✔Respect for and knowledge of the ELL's home
language among all students
When ELLs reach the early production stage of the 2nd language acquisition, they are
typically most comfortable performing what language tasks? -Correct Answer
✔Speaking in single words or 2 word phrases
A 3 year old speaks both English and Spanish. In casual conversation with the teacher,
her father expresses mild concern that his daughter sometimes mixes up vocabulary
between languages. What would be the teacher's best response to the father? -Correct
Answer ✔reassuring him that bilingual children often shift between languages at this
age
A 4 year old whose home language is not English, is entering preschool. To plan
effective English language instruction, it is most important for his teachers to understand
that -Correct Answer ✔The child will learn English most readily if they are given more
meaningful activities that require him to us English
A 3 year old recognizes a word on a sign for a fast food restaurant and understands that
people go inside that building to eat. This is an example of a child making meaning from
what? -Correct Answer ✔environmental print
What would contribute most to encouraging 3rd grade students' enjoyment of and
positive attitude toward reading? -Correct Answer ✔allowing students to choose their
own books from the library
While preparing her preschool classroom for the 1st day of school, a teacher creates a
classroom grocery store in the dramatic play area. What is the primary benefit of this
classroom design? -Correct Answer ✔Experience with print in their environment will
help children develop an understanding of the purpose and functions of print
What book topics would most likely be included in the genre of modern fantasy for early
elementary children? -Correct Answer ✔a boy who finds a talking pencil
The big dog has a nose.
The big dog has a tail.
The big dog has a bone.
What color is t he big dog?
This text would be most effective to use with emergent or early readers for what
reason? -Correct Answer ✔Text with repetitive phrases supports fluent reading by
providing multiple opportunities to practice reading and recognizing words.
A preschool teacher hands a 4 year old child an open book and says to the child,
"Please show me where to start reading" By making this request, the teacher is most
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likely to gather information about the student's skills in what areas? -Correct Answer
✔directionality of print
A 1st grade student is reading a new text aloud to his teacher. The text reads, It is very
cold and snowing hard. Can you tell what the season is? Oh yes, it is winter. The child
says window instead of the word winter. The teacher repeats what the child read aloud,
as he said it, then asks if this makes sense. The teacher is encouraging the child to use
what cueing system? -Correct Answer ✔semantic
Graphophonic -Correct Answer ✔Does it look right? What letters and words look like
Semantics -Correct Answer ✔Does it make sense? ( In reading)
Syntactic -Correct Answer ✔Structure. Does it sound right? (In reading)
A 2nd grade teacher reads aloud to the class often, from a wide variety of genres and
with great expression. This activity primarily helps students to -Correct Answer ✔learn
what fluent reading sounds like
What strategy could a teacher use most effectively to help emergent and early readers
better understand and use semantic clues? -Correct Answer ✔covering up various
words in a big book text and having students use meaning to guess the hidden words
A 1st grade teacher stocks the classroom library with a variety of reading materials
(magazines, alphabet books, illustrated encyclopedias) and for many reading levels.
This strategy will support students' reading development primarily because it
encourages -Correct Answer ✔independent reading
A teacher reading a big book to her class covers up a word at the end of a sentence
and asks the students to predict what the word will be. What skills does this strategy
address? -Correct Answer ✔contextual word identification
a 1st grade teacher shares an activity with emergent readers in the class called "Hink
Pinks" In this activity, the children come up with rhyming pairs of words such as goat-
boat, pat-cat, and map-tap. The children use letter and word-family cards to form the
pairs and then read each pair aloud. This activity will most likely promote the children's
ability to -Correct Answer ✔Substitute onsets with common rimes
What materials should a 1st grade teacher include in the writing center to best
encourage the students to write for various audiences? -Correct Answer ✔different
sizes and types of paper, envelopes. and cards
A preschool teacher would like to promote the oral communication skills of a 3 year old
child. What is a strategy that is developmentally appropriate? -Correct Answer
✔Labeling and describing events in the child's world
ILTS Early Childhood Education (206) Exam
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