EDU 332 Final

Children can expand their vocabularies by more than ___________ words each year.

• 500

• 1000

• 5000

• 7500

Which language component refers to communication skills such as turn-taking, topic introduction, and maintenance?

• pragmatics

• semantics

• morphology

• phonology

Which theory describes what takes place when a caregiver reinforces a baby after he says "dada" in the presence of a father?

• semantic-cognitivist

• psycholinguistic

• Skinnerian

• socio-linguistic

According to Tough, when a child says, "That's messy," he or she is using which type of language?

• self-maintaining

• projecting

• imagining

• reasoning

When participating in verbal brainstorming activities, students ________________.

• sketch visual images

• complete a discussion guide

• share associations and quick thoughts

• clarify story elements

Students mastering the letter-to-sound principle generally fall into which spelling stage?

• prephonetic

• phonetic

• structural

• meaning/derivational

Manuscript writing is also referred to as ___________.

• cursive

• ball-and-stick

• D'Nealian

• printing

Which tier-level words should a teacher highlight in classroom instruction to increase a students' receptive and expressive vocaulary?

• one

• two

• three

• four

Vocabulary used in simple daily interactions is called ______________ vocabulary.

• general

• academic

• content-specific

• instructional

In the early emergent literacy stage, a student _____________________.

• shows beginning phonemic awareness

• tracks written words spoken aloud in text

• begins to use text resources in all subjects

• understands and reads different genres