RED3309C Spring 2024 Final Exam Review

Print awareness is:

• Recognizing written language and understanding how it’s used

• Understanding that print is made with a pen or pencil

• Analyzing students’ printed handwriting

• None of the above

Print awareness develops:

• Faster in girls than boys

• Through child & adult interaction with various forms of print

• At the time of a child’s birth

• At an even pace throughout childhood

Children's performance on print awareness tasks:

• Cannot predict future reading achievement

• Can be a predictor of future reading achievement

• Is a way of measuring how fast they read

• None of the above

Activities that help children become aware of print include:

• Being read to by adults

• Playing with magnetic letters

• Pretend reading

• All of the above

An example of print awareness can be seen in which of the following?

• A child lies in her father’s arms, listening to a bedtime story

• A child asks her mother is she can watch “Between the Lions” on PBS

• A child points to a McDonald’s billboard and yells, “Mommy! I want a Happy Meal!”

• A child carefully cuts out a red paper heart with the words, “To: My Valentine” appearing across the middle

Which of the following is an example of print awareness?

• Books are square

• Print is read from left to right

• The alphabet originated in China

• None of the above

Print awareness typically, but not always, begins to develop:

• Before children begin school

• During the child’s first year of schooling

• At the end of first grade

• None of the above, children are born with print awareness

Print awareness is an understanding that print:

• Is different from pictures on a page

• Carries meaning

• Has practical uses

• All of the above

Phonemic awareness is:

• A strong predictor of future reading success

• A sub skill of phonological awareness

• A foundational reading skill

• All of the above

How many sounds are there in the English language?

• Exactly 26

• More than 60

• More than 40

• Exactly 52