NBPTS Generalist Early Childhood Exam
Questions And Answers
Manipulatives (chips, Cuisenaire rods, dice, play money, etc) - Answer young children
learn primarily through visually inspecting, touching, holding, and manipulating
concrete objects.
math manipulative's are useful for - Answer students who learn with tactile or visual
learning styles
Inquiry-based learning - Answer Students develop hypotheses, collect information/data
to test the hypotheses and analyze information/data and formulate conclusions based
on the analyses. This is sometimes referred to as the scientific method.
inquiry learning - Answer young children should be allowed to become familiar with new
materials through purpose, use and care before expecting them to use the materials for
more structured activity
aesthetic experience - Answer perception through one's senses
process skills developed by preschool science programs - Answer observation,
classification, communication
activities to develop physical coordination - Answer hopping, balance on one foot,
kicking, throwing, catching balls, freeze dancing
Line (visual art) - Answer extend young children's symbol awareness, build sorting
skills, enhance shape recognition
affective learning experience - Answer reinforce young children's emotional
development including identifying and talking about their feelings
affective learning experience example - Answer Feelings and faces activities
, phonological awareness - Answer the ability to focus on and play with the sound
structure of spoken language
Phonemic Awareness - Ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual sounds or
phonemes in oral language.
Alphabetic Principle-ABILITY TO CONNECT LETTERS WITH SOUNDS AND TO CREATE
WORDS BASED ON THESE ASSOCIATIONS.
phonological awareness is developed through -Answer direct training
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness - Two aspects of oral language development
that are important for developing word analysis skills and reading
Examples of phonological awareness skills - Answer -rhyming words
-segmenting words, syllables and phonemes
-word, syllable, and phoneme counting
-matching similar sounds
-substitute sounds in words to create other words
-understand what happens if you lose a sound or gain one in a word
benefits of phonological and phonemic awareness instruction - Answer improves
understanding of sound to letter relationships and their ability to recognize common
spelling units found in words
Oral Language Development - Answer Use these activities to facilitate: whole group,
small group, 1:1, discussions, read alouds, echo readings, songs, nursery rhymes, role
play, drama, finger plays
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