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Three-year old Clara is getting ready for her first day at a new daycare. Her parents chose this facility because of their activity stations for children to learn and play. Follow her through these stations and answer questions to get to the next one.(For each station, assume the behaviors and ages are aligned with when they first emerge.)

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Station 02

Station 03

Station 06

Station 05

Station 04

Clara's Activities

Station 01

The first station that catches Clara’s eye is a play house area, which is currently being occupied by 2 other children, Leo & Marley. Clara would most likely want to engage in what kind of play?

Symbolic Pretend Play

Exploratory Play

Stacking & Dumping

Question 01

Question 02

Clara begins to play in the house by pretending to “come home from work.” Leo and Marley are younger, and mainly want to open and close the mailbox and doors. This is likely due to the fact that:

The children have not moved on to the autosymbolic or symbolic play stages

The children are still in the exploratory stage

Both

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Question 03

Clara to go outside the house and pretend to plant and water the flowers in the windowbox. If the two children decide to join her, what would they most likely do?

Attempt to pull or dump the flowers from the pot

Pretend to water the plants with a plastic watering can

Mirror Clara by “planting and watering” flowers of their own

01

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Station 02

Clara decides to move on to a baby play area. This station includes baby dolls and clothes. Two girls, Lucia and Stella, are also at this station. Lucia is laying out a blanket and pretends to sleep and drink from a bottle, while Stella is changing her baby doll's diaper. Lucia “wakes up” and Stella asks her to find the doll’s shoes in the box. Assuming typical play development, should Lucia be able to find the shoes if they were under multiple layers of clothes?

Question 01

Yes

No

Clara really connects with Lucia and Stella. She tells them to bring the babies and come play house with her in the play house station.Given typical play development, Clara's pretend scenarios would likely be...

Question 02

Sequences of a few steps

Isolated, repetetive schemas

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Which girl would most likely engage in play related to making breakfast for the dolls in the house with Clara?

02

Question 03

Lucia, because she was pretending to be asleep before and can engage in autosymbolic play

Stella, because she is already playing with dolls and can engage in symbolic play

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Station 03

Clara moves on to a building stations. Three children are playing are playing here: Luis is focused on building a stack of blocks as high as possible, then knocking it down. Kris is building a castle that needs to be defended from monsters. Cameron is building a house. What is the order of emergence for the play skills being exhibited here?

Luis, Cameron, Kris

Cameron, Kris, Luis

Question 01

Question 02

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Given typical development, all of these children likely have the skills to produce the phrase, “playing blocks.”

True

False

Question 03

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What other symbolic activities would these children most likely pretend about?

Playing doctor and patient

Playing tea party with dolls

Playing store with customers

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Station 02

Station 03

Station 06

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Station 04

Clara notices a station where there are two kids - Bopha and Zayne - on a play mat that looks like a street map. Zayne is crawling over to get a block that tumbled over from the building station. Bopha is turning over a garage toy and sticking a pencil in it in order to shake out a stuck car. Which early skills would accurately describe for these children's behaviors?

Question 01

Means-end behavior and exploration

Means-end behavior and tool use

Which child is more likely to have the beginnings of verbal communication?

Question 02

04

The child getting the block

The child getting the car

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Lesson 02

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Lesson 04

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Station 05

Question 01

Clara is surprised at how these babies cannot talk like she can. Her teacher and another child Zayne come over to check on the babies.

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3.5

4.5

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Clara says, "My brother talks." Her teacher responds, "They are too young to talk like you do, Clara" Clara responds, "My brother's a baby"

What would be Clara's MLUm from these utterances?

Question 03

What are some of Brown's morphemes you can identify?

Articles

Uncontractible copula

Irregular third person

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C1:My brother talksC2: My brother's a baby

Question 03

What stage of Brown's development would this place Clara in(considering the MLUm and Brown's morphemes)?

V

IV

III

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Station 03

Station 06

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Station 06

While waiting for her parents to pick her up, Clara’s teacher asks her, “What did you do today?” Clara produces a long description of all the things that she saw that day. This shows _____ .

Question 01

narrative retell

early narrative discourse

simple sentence development

story generation

Clara’s teacher needs to complete some developmental screeners and is trying to decide what toys to set out and observe them interacting with. Which would not be the best toys to elicit language during play?

Question 02

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Fake phone

Puzzle

Doctor set

Pot and spoon

As Clara is leaving at the end of the day, she says to her teacher, “I had fun today!” Is this utterance aligned with her Westby Play Scale level you have observed through her different experiences?

Question 03

06

True

False

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