MOST LIKELY QUESTIONS: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

 MOST LIKELY QUESTIONS: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

COURSE CODE: EBS 402SW

COURSE TITLE: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE              

 

1. Children’s literature can be defined as the act of ………………………………………

A. buying story books for children.

B. reading story books to children.

C. teaching children to read story books.

D.  telling beautiful stories to children.  

                                                                                             

2. The branches of literature are …………………………………………………………….

A. Poetry, narratives and drama.  

B. Poetry, rhyme and prose.  

C. Prose, fantasy and drama.   

D. Prose, narratives and fantasy.

 

3. All the following are importance of library to the teacher except ……………………………           

A. It enables teachers to make appropriate choices or selection of reading materials.

B. It helps the teacher to build on her literary skills.     

C. It makes teaching literature a bit easier for the teacher.

D. It provides adequate reading materials for the teacher.

                                   

4. When children get access to information through reading, that develops their learning/cognitive faculties, we say literature has developed their ……………… domain.

A. Emotional

B. Intellectual

C. Moral

D. Social

5. All the following are the importance of children’s literature except literature enhances ………… skills

A. Aural.

B. Labelling.

C. Oral.

D. Perception.

 

 

 

 

6. Identify the odd item on the list.

A. Activity book.

B. Biography.

C. Essays.

D. Fantasy.

 

7. One quality of a good children’s literature book is that the book should ……………………

A. be captivating.

B. be enjoyed by the teacher.

C. be voluminous.

D. have plenty words.

 

8. When you ask your young learners to narrate the events of a story, you are basically teaching them to present the ……………… of the story.

A. characters     

B. plot

C. subject matter    

D. theme  

  

9. The class teacher asked her pupils to go to the reading corner and select a book of their choice and read by themselves. She did not interfere with her pupils’ reading but rather focused on her lesson notes preparation. The class teacher had actually engaged her pupils in ……….. reading

A. Assisted   

B. Extensive    

C. Intensive   

D. Voluntary

 

10. Poetry is presented in …………………………………………

A. Chapters.

B. Lines.

C. Rhymes.

D. Stanzas.

   

11. All the following are functions of illustrations except ……………………………………

A. develops asides.

B. establishes mood.

C. establishes setting. 

D. reinforces text.

 

12. Trickster tales are examples of ……………………………………………….

A. Cumulative tales.

B. Fable tales.

C. Fairy tales.

D. Folk tales.    

 

13. The Book Trust donated some books to your school and you were called to select a number of them for the primary one pupils. Which of the following ideas will guide you to do the selection?

I. Colourful books with strong language.

II. Age-appropriate books that have faint illustrations.

III. Books that have bold text and humour

A. I only

B. I and III only

C. II and III only

D. III only

 

Items 14 and 15 are statements followed by True and False options. Read each item carefully and indicate whether it is True or False by circling the letter of the correct option.

 

14. Picture books are the same as Wordless books.

A. True

B. False

 

15. Libraries stunt the imagination and creativity of children.

A. True

B. False

 

16. Identify the rhyme scheme for the children’s poem below.

They put me in the oven to bake.

Me, a deprived and miserable cake.

Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.

Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble

                                                                       By Shelby Greer (2014)

  Rhyme scheme is aabb  

17. I am a model of extensive reading. I make pupils read short texts that have few new concepts and skills. I again make the teacher introduce the text whilst pupils make predictions as they read and help pupils to make use of their strategies.  Who am I? Guided reading  

18. When pupils are asked to discuss the role of Kweku Ananse in a story, the pupils are basically being asked to do characterization.  

 

Read the following poem carefully and answer questions 19 and 20.

 

The Star

There once was a wonderful star

Who thought she would go very far

Until she fell down

And looked like a clown

She knew she would never go far.

                                                                                              by Kaitlyn Guenther

19. Identify the type of poem this is. This type of poem is a Limerick.

20. The rhyme scheme for the poem is aabba.