Exam 4: The Youngest Readers and Writers

A group of first grade students would enjoy the book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, but they are not ready to read it independently. To help the children enjoy and use the book effectively, their teacher should use the practice of:

A kindergarten teacher suspects that her new student has not had the same rich exposure to books that most of his classmates have had. Of the following, which assessment tool could most likely help a teacher measure a young child's understanding of books?

Several kindergarten students dictated sentences about their trip to the zoo. Their teacher wrote their dictated sentences on a chart. The children were able to easily read these sentences primarily because:

Six-year-old Nicole wrote a thank-you letter to her grandmother that had all the traditional parts of a letter and showed conventional spelling. This work indicates that as a writer, the child is in the:

The most effective way to help children develop concepts about the alphabet is to:

Young children's introduction and exposure to written language usually begins:

Sebastian, an English learner, moved to the United States two years ago and converses easily with his third grade classmates. When asked to complete literacy tasks in the classroom, however, he seems to have difficulty understanding the teacher's directions. Sebastian is most likely having difficulty because:

During shared reading, students should be encouraged to: