LET Reviewer - Early Childhood Education - Set 1

Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) Reviewer

Early Childhood Education - Set 1

1. The complex linguistic deficiency marked by the inability to remember and recognize words by sounds and the inability to break words downinto component units describes:

a)  Autism

b)  Dyslexia

c)  Oral processing disorder

d)  Attention deficit disorder

2. __________ concerns a student’s ability to listen and process audible information.

a)  Autism

b)  Dyslexia

c)  Oral processing disorder

d)  Attention deficit disorder

3. _________ concerns a student’s ability to focus and maintain attention.

a)  Autism

b)  Dyslexia

c)  Oral processing disorder

d)  Attention deficit disorder

4. __________ is a disorder that influences social interaction.

a)  Autism

b)  Dyslexia

c)  Oral processing disorder

d)  Attention deficit disorder

5. Above what age does learning a language become increasingly difficult?

a)  3

b)  5

c)  7

d)  10

6. Children typically develop oral language by listening to:

a)  Peers

b)  Parents

c)  Teachers

d)  All of the above

7. Which of the following skills have a reciprocal relationship?

a)  Reading and phonics

b)  Writing and phonics

c)  Reading and writing

d)  Reading and comprehension

8. Children having difficulties with spelling, reading accuracy, and reading comprehension skills are also likely to have difficulties with:

a)  Math skills

b)  Cognitive skills

c)  Development factors

d)  Speech and language skills

9. Which of the following is a convention of print that children learn during reading activities?

a)  The meaning of words

b)  The purpose of print

c)  The left to right motion

d)  The identification of letters

10. Which of the following concepts of print can be taught during a read aloud?

a)  Author

b)  Title location

c)  Front and back of book

d)  All of the above

11. Mr. Phillips has called a parent meeting with Maria’s parents. Maria is struggling with acquiring the necessary comprehension skills to maintain grade level standards. Maria’s parents speak Spanish in the home and are eager and willing to do anything to help Maria succeed in school. Which of the following strategies below will help Maria, while maintaining and fostering the importance of her native language?

a)  Encouraging Maria’s parents to enroll in an English language course

b)  Making sure Maria speaks only English during classroom activities

c)  Encouraging Maria’s parents to read and discuss books written in Spanish

d)  Ensuring that Maria’s parents only speak English in the home

12. Which of the following literary devices is most commonly found in kindergarten classrooms?

a)  Analogy

b)  Metaphor

c)  Repetition

d)  Simile

13. John is having difficulty reading the word reach. In isolation, he pronounces each sound as /r/ /ee/ /sh/. Which of the following is a possible instructional technique which could help solve John’s reading difficulty?

a)  Additional phonemic awareness instruction

b)  Additional phonics instruction

c)  Additional skill and drill practice

d)  Additional minimal pair practice

14. Mrs. Myers has discovered numerous words that are repeatedly spelled wrong in Tina’s writing. These same words seem to be used by Tina in a lot of her writing as well. What would Mrs. Myers be best to do?

a)  Drill Tina on those words

b)  Add those words to Tina’s regular weekly spelling test

c)  Work with Tina to make an individual spelling dictionary to help her learn these words

d)  Have Tina look the words up in the dictionary and correct them

15. Research into students who are learning English as a second language has found that they have difficulty manipulating the sound system of English. This difficulty is in which area of reading development?

a)  Comprehension

b)  Fluency

c)  Phonics

d)  Phonemic Awareness

16. The smallest unit of sound  that has a different meaning is the:

a)  Phoneme

b)  Morpheme

c)  Syllable

d)  Letter

17. A __________ is a word or word part that cannot be divided into any smaller parts of meaning.

a)  Phoneme

b)  Morpheme

c)  Syllable

d)  Letter

18. The idea that students need to be able to take spoken words apart and blend different sounds together to make words describes:

a)  The alphabet principle

b)  Syntax

c)  Phonics

d)  Morphology

19. Johnny loves to listen to stories and points to signs all around the room that have letters on them. This suggests that Johnny:

a)  Understands grammar

b)  Will be a good reader

c)  Has good emergent literacy skills

d)  Has good phonemic awareness skills

20. Which of the following is the most commonly practiced strategy to encourage literacy growth?

a)  Storybook reading

b)  Teaching phonics

c)  Teaching fluency

d)  Letter identification

21. Which of the following is an appropriate way for students to respond to literature?

a)  Art

b)  Drama

c)  Writing

d)  All of the above

22. Which of the following is NOT true about phonological awareness?

a)  It may involve print.

b)  It starts before letter recognition is taught.

c)  It is a prerequisite for spelling and phonics.

d)  Activities can be done by the children with their eyes closed.

23. Ms. Walker’s lesson objective is to teach her first graders the concept of morphology in order to improve their reading skills. Which group of words would be most appropriate for her to use in this lesson?

a)  Far, farm, farmer

b)  Far, feather, fever

c)  Far, fear, fare

d)  Far, fare, farce

24. The concept of __________ is to understand how words relate to each other and can be built upon to increase reading skills.

a)  Morphology

b)  Pragmatics

c)  Semantics

d)  Syntax

25. A teacher writes the following words on the board: cot, cotton, and cottage. What is the teacher most likely teaching the students about?

a)  Morphology

b)  Pragmatics

c)  Semantics

d)  Syntax

26. Children who are having difficulty understanding non-literal expressions are having difficulties with which of the following areas?

a)  Syntax

b)  Morphology

c)  Semantics

d)  Phonics

27. A student that is having difficulty understanding non-literal expressions is having difficulty with __________.

a)  Syntax

b)  Morphology

c)  Semantics

d)  Phonics

28. When introducing new vocabulary to students, the number of new words being taught at one time should be

a)  One to two

b)  Two to three

c)  Three to four

d)  Four to five

29. Students are about to read a text that contains concepts that will be difficult for students to grasp. When should the vocabulary be introduced to students?

a)  Before reading

b)  During reading

c)  After reading

d)  It should not be introduced

30. Repeated readings of the same text are beneficial to developing readers because:

a)  Repeated reading helps students memorize the text

b)  Repeated reading helps in pairing students

c)  Repeated reading ensures students recognize the words readily and can read at an improved pace

d)  Repeated reading helps teachers determine students’ level of reading

1. B

2. C

3. D

4. A

5. C

6. D

7. C

8. D

9. C

10. D

11. C

12. C

13. A

14. C

15. D

16. A

17. B

18. A

19. C

20. A

21. D

22. A

23. A

24. A

25. A

26. C

27. C

28. B

29. A

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