It is important to integrate literacy experiences into play in ways that are meaningful for young children. What is an example of a meaningful literacy experience?
A. Structure lessons on reading.
B. Writing tools that relate to the center play.
C. Books and printed materials that relate to the center theme.
D. Signs and posters that provide information related to the center.
E. All of the above.
Question 2Block play is a traditional learning center that has many benefits for young children including all of the following except:
A. Sorting and classifying objects.
B. Delay understanding of symbolic relationships.
C. Encourage language and communication.
D. The construction of elaborate unique structures.
E. All of the above.
Question 3Learning Centers (Play Centers) provide opportunities for creative and dramatic play since they are:
A. Able to provide few play experiences that are at their developmental level.
B. Equipped with closed/focused materials that limit the participation.
C. Designed to allow children to select the center and materials they will use.
D. Not self-managing and require a great deal of adult supervision.
E. All of the above.
Question 4Housekeeping (Home Living) is recognized as an area that encourages which of the following?
A. Socio dramatic play related to childrens experiences.
B. Provides limited themes for play and role playing.
C. Immature play that is not important in the early years.
D. Play that is not related to their home, family, or culture.
E. All of the above.
Question 5Socio Dramatic Play refers to a level of involvement that includes which of the following?
A. Communication between two or more players.
B. Child substitutes an item for a real object.
C. Make believe is used.
D. Role playing.
E. All of the above.
Question 6Research on brain development indicates that play is essential to the development of neural pathways. This can be explained by some basic principles of brain development, which include all of the following except:
A. Connections are built between learning and positive emotions. This principle supports children making decisions about play activities and making choices that they enjoy.
B. The brain is continually growing and adapting to the environment. This supports the use of varying space and rotating play materials in and out of the classroom.
C. Every brain is uniquely organized. The inclusion of open-ended materials challenges the child to use his or her brain in various ways.
D. All of the above.
E. None of the above.
Question 7Vygotsky concluded that play has features that make it essential in a childs development. What are the features?
A. It provides rules of behavior that the child must follow in the play situation.
B. It creates an imaginary situation that permits the child to explore unrealized desires.
C. In play the child is functioning below their zone of proximal development (ZPD).
D. Both A and B.
E. All of the above.
Question 8In Constructivist theory one of the types of play identified in young children is pre-operational play which is:
A. The development of Symbolic Play.
B. Functional Play.
C. Games with Rules.
D. All of the above.
E. None of the above.
Question 9One of the theories of play explained by Erikson describes the progression of play to Macrosphere play, which is:
A. Sharing play with others.
B. Play with self and things.
C. Microsphere play with small objects.
D. All of the above.
E. None of the above.
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