Module 3: Emergent Literacy

The term emergent literacy was coined by:

• Maria Montessori

• Marie Clay

• Lev Vygotsky

• Jean Piaget

Young children grow in their ability to reflect upon language. The ability to talk about concepts of language is known as:

• metacognition

• metalinguistics

• prosody

• morphology

Four-year-old Stephen smiled when he saw the logo for his favorite cereal. Logos on cereal boxes, toy stores, and fast-food restaurants are known as:

• predictable texts

• decodable texts

• environmental print

• culturally based print

The one-to-one correspondence between phonemes and graphemes, such that each letter consistently represents one sound is known as:

• phonemic awareness

• morphology

• the alphabetic principle

• the zone of proximal development

If a teacher plans to use guided reading groups, students should:

• remain in the same groups all year for stability

• be moved to other groups as their needs change

• be allowed to form groups without teacher guidance

• be placed in groups randomly regardless of skills

Research suggests that phonics should be taught within a balanced approach and that phonics instruction should be completed by:

• preschool

• kindergarten

• third grade

• sixth grade

In the word knit, the rime is:

• kn

• kit

• it

• hit

In the English language, there are approximately:

• 26 phonemes

• 44 phonemes

• 500 phonemes

• 1,000 phonemes

During the emergent literacy stage, children:

• develop reading and writing abilities concurrently

• learn to read and then learn to write

• write with conventional spelling

• read all texts orally

After visiting a firehouse, a first-grade teacher and her students sat together and took turns holding the pen and writing sentences about their experience. This group participated in:

• interactive writing

• writing workshop

• environmental print

• predictable texts