OAE 012 Early Childhood Content Test
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Which of the following would be the most appropriate type of print making activity for kindergarten-age
students?
a. wood-block printing
b. silk-screen printing
c. stamp printing
d. linoleum block printing - ✔✔c. stamp printing
To promote creative development in young children when they are creating hand or finger paintings, the
children should be encouraged to:
a. create representations of people, objects, and scenes from their every day life.
b. identify the colors they are using in their paintings
c. use different parts of their hand to explore how each part makes a different kind of mark.
d. describe to an adult what they are doing in their paintings. - ✔✔c. use different parts of their hand
to explore how each part makes a different kind of mark.
Which of the following activities in a first-grade classroom would best integrate social skills learning with
arts learning?
a. Divided into small groups, children learn folk dances from different cultures to perform for each
other.
b. Students take turns pantomiming an idea while others ask questions to guess what they are
representing.
c. As a holiday project, students create and paint pottery shapes as gifts for parents/guardians.
,d. The class plans and works together to design and create a thematic mural with paint and collage. -
✔✔d. The class plans and works together to design and create a thematic mural with paint and
collage.
A three-year-old child makes a scribble with a crayon and tells the teacher, "this is my kitty." Which of
the following responses by the teacher would be most developmentally appropriate?
a. asking the child to point out the head or tail.
b. expressing interest in or enjoyment of the drawing.
c. suggesting that the child adds legs or ears.
d. showing a child a book that has pictures of cats. - ✔✔b. expressing interest in or enjoyment of
the drawing.
The children in a kindergarten class become very excited about a new story heard during story time
and repeatedly ask the teacher to read it again. When the teacher proposes that the class act out the
story, the children respond with enthusiasm. The teacher's most developmentally appropriate goal for
this activity would be for the children to:
a. acquire the vocal and gesture skills to develop characterization and advance a plot.
b. explore and express their own ideas and feelings about the story.
c. recognize the differences between a story written to be read and a play written to be performed.
d. present a scripted dramatization of the school to an audience. - ✔✔b. explore and express their
own ideas and feelings about the story.
Which of the following would be the most effective way for a preschool teacher to build students'
understanding of good nutritional practices?
a. Setting up a kitchen activity center furnished with toy food items and child-sized appliances
and utensils.
b. Having children assist in the preparation of nutritional snacks as a part of the daily classroom routine.
c. Displaying posters that use appealing illustrations to convey important messages about
healthy eating.
d. Visiting the school cafeteria to watch a dietitian plan and oversee the preparation of lunch. - ✔✔b.
Having children assist in the preparation of nutritional snacks as a part of the daily classroom routine.
Folk dancing would likely be especially effective for promoting physical fitness in the area of...
, a. muscular strength
b. flexibility
c. cardiovascular endurance
d. bone density - ✔✔c. cardiovascular endurance
A child in an early childhood class has cerebral palsy. The child is able to maintain stability while standing
and walking and can grip with her left hand, but she has difficulty using her hand to lift. Which of the
following would be the teacher's best modification of a movement activity in which the whole class will
wave a parachute up and down?
a. positioning the child between classmates in a way that allows her to hold on while they control the
up and down motion
b. introducing a related activity in which the child and a classmate duck under the parachute as it is
being lifted by the other children
c. redesigning the activity to have the class hold the parachute in their left hands and rotate it by
walking around in a circle
d. appointing the child to act as the class raises and lowers the parachute - ✔✔a. positioning the
child between classmates in a way that allows her to hold on while they control the up and down
motion
"Express the following words as numbers: fifty-six-506, twenty-five-205" The student who made
the errors shown in the exercise above would benefit most from which of the following activities?
a. practicing basic math facts.
b. reviewing the concept of "0" as a placeholder when writing numerals.
c. using unit cubes to represent numbers in base 5.
d. arranging groups of base-10 blocks and writing the numerals represented. - ✔✔d. arranging
groups of base-10 blocks and writing the numerals represented.
In general, children of preschool age feel most comfortable in settings that...
a. combine a large number of activity choices with frequent changes of activity.
b. stress whole class activities in which students perform specific tasks under close teacher direction.
c. emphasize student-directed learning and a minimum of external structure.
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