KPEERI Exam Study Guide EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATED VERSION JUST RELEASED

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KPEERI Exam Study Guide EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATED
VERSION JUST RELEASED



Question: Reducing large selections of text to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the

main points that are worth noting and remembering. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Summarize




Question: A unit of pronunciation or word part that contains only one vowel sound (e-vent,

news-pa-per). - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔syllable




Question: What type of Syllable is this? cat, cobweb - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Closed




Question: What type of Syllable is this? he, silo - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔open




Question: What type of Syllable is this? like, milestone - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Vowel

Consonant E, Magic E

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Question: What type of Syllable is this? roam, meat, rain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Vowel Team




Question: What type of Syllable is this? candle, juggle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Consonant-l-e




Question: What type of Syllable is this? firm, star - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔R controlled




Question: The act of breaking words into syllables. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Syllabication




Question: Words that have similar meanings. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Synonym




Question: Phrase and sentence structure (grammar). - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Syntax




(Think of the way Yoda talks, it's a SIN (SYNtax) because it's wrong.)

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Question: A component of concepts of print, includes knowledge of the features in a text or

book, such as page numbers, table of contents, illustrations and photographs, chapter titles,

headings, captions, labels, infographics, and diagrams. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Text Features




Question: The various patterns of ideas that are embedded in the organization of text (e.g.,

cause-effect, comparison-contrast, story grammar). - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Text Structure




Question: During shared read aloud, teachers reveal their thinking processes by verbalizing:

connections, questions, inferences, and predictions. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Think Alouds




Question: Letters that appear frequently in words. Beginning readers can decode more words

when they know these. Knowing the sounds of /m/, /a/, /t/, and /i/ is more advantageous than

the sounds /x/, /q/ /y/, and /z/. Other useful letter sounds are /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/, /b/, /c/, /d/,

/f/, /g/, /h/, /k/, /l/, /n/, /p/, and /r/. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Useful Letter Sounds




Q:A word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound - CORRECT

ANSWER✔✔syllable

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Question: Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds - CORRECT

ANSWER✔✔consonant blend




Question: Two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound - CORRECT

ANSWER✔✔consonant digraph




Question: Sources of information outside of words that readers may use to predict the

identities and meanings of unknown words. These may be drawn from the immediate sentence

containing the word, from text already read, from pictures accompanying the text, or from

definitions, restatements, examples, or descriptions in the text. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔context

clues




Question: Sounds that can be held for several seconds without distortion - CORRECT

ANSWER✔✔continuous sounds




Question: Sequences for how information is selected, sequenced, organized, and practiced.

These occur within each component of reading where a logical progression of skills would be