When Young Children Recall and Retell a Story, They Often

question 119

Multiple Choice

When young children recall and retell a story, they often recall certain important features while forgetting unimportant ones, reorder the sequence of events in more logical fashion, and even include new information that fits with a passage's meaning. This demonstrates that young children

• A) have poor metacognitive skills.
• B) reconstruct information based on their everyday experiences.
• C) often fail to employ appropriate memory strategies.
• D) are not yet adept at cognitive self-regulation.

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