ILTS 206 Sub-Area 1 Practice Question #14

A kindergarten teacher wants to obtain general information about a child's development in several areas of emergent literacy. Which of the following informal assessments would be most effective in providing information across several areas of emergent literacy?

asking the child to sing the alphabet song for the teacherholding up a book and asking the child to point at the book's coverasking the child to write a title on a picture he or she has just drawnsaying a word and asking the child to respond with a rhyming word

Correct Response: C.

Asking a kindergartner to write a title on a picture he or she has just drawn would provide the teacher with a variety of information. For example, this task would show whether the child understands that writing is different from drawing and that print is directional. It would demonstrate the child’s letter-formation skills. It would also be likely to provide information on the child’s understanding of letter-sound correspondence (e.g., if the child uses letters and words that correspond to the names of the objects in the drawing).