Exam 9: Encouraging the Development of Cognitive Skills and Literacy

You want to develop deferred imitation in a child. Outline a lesson including a concrete sequence of en-route steps of what you would do to reach the terminal objective.

Preschool programs should emphasize the direct instruction of reading with reading readiness activities.

For the above lesson, state how you would adapt it for a child with a hearing impairment, one with a visual impairment, and one who has a motor impairment (cerebral palsy).

List two ways that you could help a child with an intellectual disability develop print awareness during cleanup time.

Explain how you could teach matching, sorting, and seriation using a set of blocks.

You are reading a book together while sitting in a comfortable, adult size chair with a child on your lap. The five-year-old child has a speech and language impairment and can use two-word sentences. Write a dialogue based on your favorite children's book showing how you would use dialogic reading while incorporating the strategies of the two acronyms P.E.E.R. and C.R.O.W.D.

The 18- to 24-month-old toddler shows that he or she has the ability to think by showing

In the preoperational stage, children can

"School language" may be difficult for a child from a nonmainstream culture. Give three examples of some problems that a child from a different culture may encounter in an American middle-class environment. Identify the culture of the child or various children and tell why the problem occurs.

Children are able to master rote memory almost from birth.

Object permanence is mastered in children without disabilities by the sensorimotor substage 3 at 5 to 8 months.

Children without disabilities begin to act out "what would happen if..." scenarios at about age

Identify 3 characteristics of children with significant intellectual disabilities.

Explain the "alphabetic principle" and state why it is so important that children understand this principle.

Most teachers tend to teach predominately through talking.

How is problem solving different from academic learning? Give an example of each.

When Frederick was 5 months old, he looked at his favorite ball, but when it rolled out of his view, he did not search for it. Now at 9 months old moves around to search for it, reflecting the presence of:

Give three examples of a teacher's "staging" or contriving problems to be solved in the preschool classroom. What would you set up for the problem and how would you present the problem to your class?

The child who uses simple manipulation in play by banging and throwing objects is showing

Describe the three-stage model of literacy development offered by the Center for Early Literacy Learning.