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1. Bilateral coordination relates to motor skills of hands and fingers.
a. True
b. False
2. There is a clear connection between areas of the brain controlling fine motor skills and areas controlling cognition.
a. True
b. False
3. The pincer grasp is important to holding a pencil to write later in a child’s life.
a. True
b. False
4. Game Boys build efficient pencil grasp patterns.
a. True
b. False
5. Young babies are able to use the pincer grasp.
a. True
b. False
6. When children learn to write by hand, they create faster by hand than by keyboard and also generate more ideas
when composing essays in longhand.
a. True
b. False
7. Which of the following is not a fine motor action?
a. Picking up a pencil b. Rotating the wrist
c. Licking the lips d. Walking across the room
8. All but which of the following are appropriate activities for developing fine muscle manipulation in young children?
a. Dress up play with clothing that has zippers, buttons, and ties
b. Crawling through a box obstacle course
c. Family style dining in which children serve themselves
d. Stringing beads
9. You are setting up a manipulative center in your classroom. All but which of the following should be true of the
completed center?
a. It should be integrated with other centers in your classroom
b. It should provide both horizontal and vertical workspaces
c. It should provide a variety of materials in order to provide a variety of manipulative experiences
d. It should contain enough materials for between four and six children to work at one time
10. All but which of the following is true of normal fine motor development among very young children?
a. Infants are able to use the palmer grasp to rake objects
b. Toddlers are able to manipulate toys and other objects easily
c. Infants are able to use the pincher grasp to rake objects
d. Older babies are able to us the pincher grasp to pick up objects
11. Which of the following is true of the use of technology in fine motor development among young children?
a. Technology that develops the motor skills needed for handwriting can be beneficial for young children
b. Young children should learn to type with a keyboard rather than print or write cursive
c. Technology has no benefit for fine motor development among young children
d. The fine motor skills used in typing help children write faster
12. All but which of the following is an appropriate way to incorporate diversity into fine motor activities for young
children?
a. Teach the children an Irish folk dance
b. Make fruit sushi and let children try to eat it with chopsticks
c. Place items from other cultures, such as Russian nesting dolls, in the classroom learning centers
d. Provide children with brushes and nontoxic ink to try Chinese calligraphy
13. All but which of the following is an appropriate way to build partnerships with families around their children's fine
motor development?
a. Suggest some household or family activities, such as folding laundry or wringing out dishcloths and sponges,
that develop fine motor skill
b. Offer suggestions of household items that can be used to develop fine motor skill, such as scissors or hole
punches
c. Explain to parents the ways in which fine motor development aids in other areas of learning such as
handwriting or math learning
d. Provide the parents with a list of the manipulatives from the classroom that the child most enjoys, with
information on where to purchase them
14. All but which of the following is true of fine motor development and learning in the early childhood classroom?
a. Children should have access to manipulative materials at all times
b. Fine motor development occurs at a different pace for each child
c. Teachers should continuously offer positive reinforcement for children in regard to fine motor learning
d. Teachers should provide guided activities for fine motor development
15. Why is it important that a child be given many hands-on opportunities in their play?
16. Why is serving family style dining important for preschool children?
17. What fine motor materials are important to include in the manipulative center?
18. Is tracing letters on paper a good fine motor activity to use to teach writing to three-year-olds?
19. Many public schools are decreasing the time or eliminating entirely the teaching of handwriting. What is the danger
in this?
20. What are some ways to support each and every child’s success in developing fine motor skills?
21. What are some ways to integrate and create fine motor and manipulative play activities appropriate for young
children?
