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The Praxis Education of Young Children test is intended primarily for prospective teachers of young children (birth to age eight). The test is designed to assess the your knowledge about pedagogy and content, the relationship oftheory to practice, and how theory can be applied in the educational setting. Also included in the test are multicultural influences; diversity; variations in development, including atypical development; and how these factors affect children’s development and learning. Each of the three constructed-response questions will focus on one of the following areas:... Show more

The Praxis Education of Young Children test is intended primarily for prospective teachers of young children (birth to age eight).

The test is designed to assess the your knowledge about pedagogy and content, the relationship oftheory to practice, and how theory can be applied in the educational setting. Also included in the test are multicultural influences; diversity; variations in development, including atypical development; and how these factors affect children’s development and learning.

Each of the three constructed-response questions will focus on one of the following areas: Developmentally Appropriate Practices; Professionalism, Family, and Community; Observation, Documentation, and Assessment; or Content Pedagogy and Knowledge.

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Praxis II Exam: Education of Young Child (Practice Test)

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1. Of the following, which is correct about considerations in arranging indoor learning environments to fit with curriculum planning for toddlers and preschoolers?

The rooms should be organized to enable different activities.Rooms should be arranged to limit activities to certain areas.The floors in all the rooms should be covered with carpeting.Math and science activities should be in one classroom area.

2. What can preschool children learn from lessons about the visual art element of line?

This will not help them make better comparisons.Children's symbol recognition will not be affected.Children's ability to recognize shapes will develop.Preschoolers cannot distinguish among line types.

3. Which accurately reflects a contrast between the Directed Reading Activity (DRA) and the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) as methods of reading instruction using basal readers?

DRA requires convergent thinking whereas DR-TA also requires divergent thinking.DR-TA only works with basal readers but DRA can work for other curriculum plans.The pre-teaching of new vocabulary is featured in DR-TAs but is absent from DRAs.DR-TA approaches specify when to teach which skills, but DRA approaches do not.

4. Which of the following correctly reflects Adler's theory of birth order's influences on personality development?

youngest children in families have no features in common with only children.Twins are identical in activity and/or strength and parents perceive them as equal.Adler never noted any differences between twins as to personality development.Some 'babies' of the family grow to make grandiose plans, which never succeed.

5. At what age do children typically undergo the second of three periods of language/communication development?

From 8 - 12 monthsFrom 6 - 18 monthsFrom 0 - 6 monthsFrom 18-24 months

6. Which of the following is true about preschool activities to teach scientific inquiry and discovery?

For a preschool teacher to create a science center is typically always expensive.Comparing similarities and contrasting differences in objects are good activities.Seeing what colors result from mixing other colors is strictly an art class activity.Exploring the solubility in water of various substances is not a scientific activity.

7. In Adler's psychoanalytic theory, which of these did he believe about male/female siblings in family birth orders?

Adler stated parents of all males/females wanting a child of the other sex never dress one child as the opposite sex.Boy siblings of an only girl can behave protectively toward her; and she may make extra effort to please the father.An only boy with girl siblings will more likely behave effeminately than as overly masculine in the father's absence.An only girl with boy siblings will more likely become a tomboy than become very feminine to differentiate herself.

8. To support EC language development, experts advise which of the following teacher practices?

Focusing on durations of verbal interactionsAsking children more open-ended questionsAsking children linear or one-way questionsDoing most of the talking in their classrooms

9. What is true regarding survey findings about family differences among American socioeconomic and racial groups?

Socioeconomically disadvantaged children have more problems and receive more help for these.Cultural and demographic factors influence disagreement styles more than parental stress does.Data have shown more violence in African-American families, then in Latino, then White families.Low-socioeconomic young children have no more development/behavior problems than others.

10. Which statement correctly describes some benefits to young children of the Language Experience Approach (LEA)?

Children realize they acquire knowledge and understanding from their own experiences.Instruction using the LEA enables the students to interact with text at one level at a time.With the LEA young students learn to use different words/language than they usuallyThe LEA teaches beginning reading by using printed language apart from students' lives.

11. Which of these is more typical of the language development of a two to three year old than of a preschooler?

Speaking in complete sentencesTelling 'make-believe' storiesDescribing unseen objectsExpressing opinions/preferences

12. Typically, young children eat most of the same foods as adults by the age of ____.

Five years old.FourTwo years old.Three

13. Regarding the three basic temperament types identified by psychologists in infants, which of these is true?

There is no clear majority among infants having one of the types.The majority of babies are found to be of Difficult temperament.The majority of infants are found to have the Easy temperament.The majority of infants are found to be Slow to Warm Up types.

14. Which best expresses what the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) is intended to accomplish?

To develop critical thinking through using individual 1:1 instructionTo develop critical reading through teaching group comprehensionTo engage children only by their asking questions about the readingTo engage children in processing information without any feedback

15. What is true regarding children's motor development from infancy to preschool ages?

Motor skills development involves learning of new physical movements over the course of time.Proprioception is established at birth and does not progress any further.Motor skills are largely known at infancy, but infants lack the strength to execute complex movements.The voluntary behaviors of newborns eventually progress into reflexes.

16. Which of these should EC educators communicate to diverse families of the children they instruct?

Information about developmental milestones rather than methodsInformation about class content but not developmental milestonesInformation about their child instead of developmental milestonesInformation about development and methods for nurturing growth

17. Which of these is most appropriate to EC educators for involving diverse families in children's educations?

Educators should create volunteer calendars and assign parents times for participating.It is not the educators' problem if families have difficulty with printed/written English.Educators should ask families to develop their own goals for educational participation.When educators design IFSPs for preschoolers, it is unnecessary to involve the family.

18. How are teachers required to ensure educational equity?

By using materials reflecting multicultural viewsBy delivering uniform instruction to all studentsBy treating students less fairly if they deserve itBy offering different opportunities to students

19. Which of these is correct regarding teacher assessment of early childhood print awareness using a storybook?

It is unnecessary to ask children to identify the front, back, spine, and title of the storybook.It is not possible to conduct any accurate assessment of print awareness using a storybook.It does not inform assessment to have children show the first and last words in a sentence.can ask children to point out uppercase/lowercase letters and punctuation marks.

20. A child who correctly uses irregular past tenses of verbs, e.g. went, fell, froze, etc., would be in which of Roger Brown's Stages of Syntactic and Morphological Development?

Stage IIStage IStage IVStage III

21. Which of the following is correct regarding early childhood reading instruction using basal readers?

Basal reader texts graded by reading level use narrative instead of expository work.Instructions from smaller to larger skills helps student transitions from part to whole.Texts used for basal readers include children's literature rather than other genres.Progressing in skills following a rigid, systematic sequence is less helpful to students.

22. How much usable play space at a minimum do experts recommend for indoor and outdoor early childhood learning environments?

At least 50 sq. ft. indoors and 100 sq. ft. outsideAt least 25 sq. ft. indoors and 50 sq. ft. outdoorsAt least 35 sq. ft. indoors and 75 sq. ft. outdoorsAt least 45 sq. ft. indoors and 85 sq. ft. outdoors

23. Which of these helps young children to decode text in the basal reader approach to reading instruction?

All of these help for decoding of textPrecise control of word analysis skillsIncluded use of enlarged 'big books'Exactly controlling vocabulary items

24. For teachers to make informal assessments of pre-K classes, which of these would apply?

To only make assessments during activities for the whole class.Teachers make classroom observations each targeting different skills.To assess during small-group rather than whole-class activities.Teachers can organize assessments by using around ten themes a day.

25. The High/Scope Curriculum for preschoolers (Weikart et al) identifies 58 key developmental experiences for active learning, dividing them into 10 main categories. Which of the following does NOT correctly represent one of the first five of these 10 categories?

Creative representation; symbol recognition, imitation; and playing rolesMusic, including being able to write musical notation and compositionsLanguage/literacy including speaking, scribbling, describing, storytellingInitiative, social relations; problem-solving, decisions, and relationships

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