The teacher gives a small group of children a basket of fruit to touch, feel, and discuss. Then she helps the children cut the fruit and make a fruit salad. Lastly, the children dictate a list of the procedures they used in preparing the salad while the teacher writes the steps on a chart. This activity is:
a. Developmentally appropriate because the children are learning with their senses by direct handling of materials.
b. Developmentally inappropriate because 4-year-olds are too young to be involved in written dictation.
c. Developmentally inappropriate because 4-year-olds need to be involved in more complex learning tasks that cannot be replicated at home.
d. Developmentally appropriate because children this age are ready to learn to cut with a knife.
a
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