ILTS 206 Sub-Area 1 Practice Question #09

A prekindergarten teacher is teaching a unit on the five senses. The teacher is planning a lesson about texture. Which of the following initial strategies is likely to be most effective in helping children construct meaning with regard to this concept?

leading children in an activity in which they try to think of as many texture words as they canplaying a game in which the teacher says a texture word and children find an item in the room with that textureallowing children to manipulate items with various textures and talk about their observationsdemonstrating for children how to make rubbings of different objects with crayons or chalk

Correct Response: C

Prekindergarten children are concrete learners who require direct experience with concrete objects to construct knowledge effectively. The opportunity to explore a concept with real materials and verbalize observations helps extend the depth of children’s understanding and promotes development of a meaningful vocabulary with regard to the targeted concept.