ECC chapter 7

The ability to use _______________________ is vital for success in school because concepts and events outside the classroom are often the focus of instruction.

• grammatical constructions

• emergent literacy skills

• decontextualized language

• theory of mind

The correct progression in the development of theory of mind is:

• Sensitivity to knowledge access, sensitivity to diverse desires, false belief, sarcasm, hidden emotion, sensitivity to diverse beliefs

• Sensitivity to diverse desires, sensitivity to diverse beliefs, sensitivity to knowledge access, false belief, hidden emotion, sarcasm

• Sensitivity to diverse beliefs, sensitivity to diverse desires, hidden emotion, false belief, sarcasm, sensitivity to knowledge access

• False belief, sarcasm, sensitivity to diverse desires, hidden knowledge, sensitivity to diverse beliefs, sensitivity to knowledge access

The earliest period of learning about reading and writing is called:

• emergent literacy

• stage 1

• print awareness

• alphabetic knowledge

What is the contribution of oral language skills on the development of literacy?

• Oral language and literacy are separate domains; there is no relationship

• Oral language abilities minimally contribute to literacy development

• Only the oral language domain of semantics is related to literacy development

• Literacy abilities depend heavily on oral language skills developed early in life

___________________________________ is the ability to view language as an object of attention.

• executive function

• receptive language

• metalinguistics

• theory of mind

Which of the following is something ONLY a child with deep phonological awareness would be able to do?

• segment words into their constituent phonemes

• produce rhymes

• detect beginning sound similarities among words

• combine syllable onsets with the remainder of the syllable to produce a word

During which age group are phonological processes suppressed the fastest?

• 1-2 years

• 2-3 years

• 3-4 years

• 4-5 years

_________________________________ are the prefixes and suffixes we add to a word to change its meaning and sometimes its part of speech.

• allomorphic variations

• derivational morphemes

• copulas

• contractions

Which of the following is an example of a subordinating conjunction?

• and

• but

• or

• because

During ______________________________, children gradually refine their representations of concepts over time and with multiple exposure to the target word in varying contexts.

• novel name-nameless category matching

• slow mapping

• syntactic bootstrapping

• fast mapping