Print awareness is:
a. recognizing written language and understanding how it's used
b. understanding that print is made with a pen or pencil
c. analyzing students' printed handwriting
d. none of the above
Print awareness:
a. develops faster in girls than in boys
b. develops through child/adult interaction with various forms of print
c. is present at the time of a child's birth
d. none of the above
Which of the following is NOT an example of print awareness?
a. knowing that print proceeds from top to bottom on a page
b. knowing that print proceeds from left to right on a page
c. knowing that print is easier than cursive handwriting for most children
d. knowing that print is an expression of written language
Children's performance on print awareness tasks:
a. cannot predict future reading achievement
b. is a reliable predictor of future reading achievement
c. is a way of measuring how fast they can read
d. none of the above
Activities that help children become aware of print include:
a. being read to by adults
b. playing with magnetic letters
c. pretend reading
d. all of the above
Children with print awareness are able to:
a. count the number of words in a sentence
b. distinguish between a word and a letter on a page
c. recognize the logo for McDonald\'s on a billboard
d. all of the above
_______ does NOT encourage developement of print awareness:
a. teaching a lesson about the parts of a book (cover, title page, author, illustrator)
b. using a "big book" to read a story aloud
c. leading the song, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
d. helping a student write his name
Activities that help promote print awareness in children include:
a. labeling objects in a classroom
b. reading aloud to students
c. pointing out punctuation marks at the end of sentences
d. all of the above
Children who begin school without print awareness:
a. tend to be better readers than other students
b. will never learn to read
c. are at risk for reading difficulty
d. none of the above
Pretending to write a shopping list:
a. can help a child develop print awareness
b. may be bad if the child does not know the alphabet
c. has no effect on learning
d. none of the above
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