Exam 14: Print-Early Knowledge and Emerging Interest

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It does not matter how quickly and accurately children can name alphabet letters.

There is a point in most young children's lives when they begin to study the fine features of alphabet letters and shapes.

When a teacher writes an alphabet letter for a child,the letter should be

Advocates of brain-based instructional methods believe young children should have wooden,plastic or other three dimensional letter shapes to explore.

Many of children's attempts to print are just exploratory play.

It is important to keep all printing that children view in the classroom the same size including print on equipment and furnishings.

If a classroom has a writing center area,the teacher should be in it periodically and devise motivational activities.

Writing centers in a preschool classroom are places where writing tools and paper are only available to teachers.

Considering physical growth,preschoolers' printing attempts can be described as

Preschoolers should be acquainted with using print for some useful purpose.

Define sight reading and discuss how it is promoted in the preschool classroom.

1.Match an item in Column A with its most logical match in Column B

Scribbling and drawing experiences leads some children to discover marks have meaning.

All early childhood programs should explicitly instruct children in the correct way to grip writing tools.

Early literacy classrooms are described as

When teachers print words on a chart that children in a group are saying and want written down,children

Teachers may need to explain to families why a child's early printing attempts are not corrected.

At some point,children understand that print is different from random marks.

Young children may know there are spaces between words.