Chapter 7
Taking Language from Home to School
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The most abstract and complicated type of word definition is:
a. Categorical
b. Operational
c. Functional
d. Dictionary
e. Descriptive
2. “Everything but the kitchen sink” is an example of what?
a. Idiom
b. Irony
c. Proverb
d. Simile
e. Metaphor
3. The school-age child learns how to __________________________________________ conversations by
moving from one topic to a different, but related, topic.
a. Morph
b. Challenge
c. Shade
d. Manipulate
e. Elaborate
4. The third element of story grammar is __________________________________________.
a. Setting
b. Consequence
c. Attempt
d. Initiating event
e. Internal response
5. One of the first phonological awareness skills to emerge is __________________________________________.
a. Using knowledge of sounds to spell
b. Counting sounds in words
c. Segmenting words into onset and rime components
d. Determining letter and sound correspondence in words
e. Manipulating sounds in words
6. The stages of writing, in order from first to develop to last to develop, are:
a. Consolidation, integration, differentiation, transitional
b. Preparation, consolidation, differentiation, integration
c. Prephonemic, early phonemic, letter-name, transitional
d. Early phonemic, preparation, postphonemic, integration
e. Differentiation, consolidation, transitional, integration
7. Which of the following indirect requests is likely to be more difficult for the preschool and early school-age
child to comprehend?
a. “Can you take me home?”
b. “Shouldn’t you put on your coat?”
c. A direct request followed by a long sigh
d. “You should try to do your homework before dinner.”
e. “You shouldn’t eat before dinner.”
8. Ideally, which approach(es) would be used to develop a multicultural education curriculum that is relevant to all
students?
a. Contributions approach
b. Additive approach
c. Transformation approach
d. Social action approach
e. All of the above
9. The three broad categories of readers, in order from first to develop to last to develop, are:
a. Early, successive, self-sufficient
b. Preparation, transitional, autonomous
c. Dependent, transitional, independent
d. Emergent, developing, independent
e. Consolidation, consolidation, integrated
10. When a writer takes into account the audience and selects a literacy style that is most appropriate for the project,
he/she is using a process called __________________________________________.
a. Graphophonemic awareness
b. Self-sufficient writing
c. Revision
d. Self-regulated writing
e. Composition awareness
11. Component(s) that are necessary for effective reading instruction is/are: Circle all that apply
a. Text comprehension
b. Reading fluency
c. Vocabulary instruction
d. Phonological awareness
e. Phonics
12. When a child uses his understanding of one or more parts of a word to figure out the meaning of another part of
that word, he is using __________________________________________.
a. Contextual clues
b. Morphological knowledge
c. Categorical understanding
d. Operational knowledge
e. Scaffolding
13. Any program designed to help teachers prepare for culturally diverse student bodies must include the following
component(s):
a. Skills
b. Awareness
c. Knowledge
d. B and C
e. A, B and C
14. The process of placing words into categories based on their semantic relations is called
__________________________________________.
a. Memorization
b. Horizontal expansion
c. Chunking
d. Vertical expansion
e. Slow-mapping
15. The conjunction “because” is troublesome for the child because he must first understand
__________________________________________.
a. That sentences containing “because” violate the principle of minimal distance
b. That “because” is a disjunctive form
c. The cause-effect relationship expressed in the conjoined clauses
d. That “because” is a conditional form
e. The interpretation on the basis of order of mention
Short Answer & Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
1. __________________________________________ is one type of slow-mapping strategies used to expand word
meanings.
2. Name one of type of primary influence that is involved in how new words and meanings are acquired:
____________________________________________________________________________________
3. Students from diverse cultures are often _______________________________ by their teachers for having a
language and/or learning disability.
4. __________________________________________ is the primary conversational repair strategy that a school-
age child uses until the age of 9 years.
5. During the school years, children favor the conjunction __________________________________________
over other conjunctions.
Essay Questions
1. Discuss the three types of vocabulary retrieval strategies and give an example for each.
2. Describe the differences observed in narratives based on the culture in which a person lives.
3. Define and describe the three forms of language that children encounter upon entering school.
Define and describe two types of bias that could be found in textbooks and other printed instructional materials.
Taking Language from Home to School
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