KPEERI Exam Study Guide : Actual Questions & Verified Answers to Pass on Your First Try

KPEERI Exam Study Guide : Actual
Questions & Verified Answers to Pass
on Your First Try




A word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
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Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
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Two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
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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 VERIFIED ANSWERS✔✔}-context clues

Sounds that can be held for several seconds without distortion -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
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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

,evident: easier skills are introduced before more difficult skills, so that skills build
progressively. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS✔✔}-Coordinated
Instructional Sequences

Instruction that builds upon previously learned concepts. - {✔✔CORRECT
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Cumulative Instruction

Text in which a high proportion of words comprise sound-symbol relationships that have
already been taught. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Decodable Text

These words contain phonic elements that were previously taught. -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Decodable Words

A prefix or suffix added to a root or base to form another word (e.g., -un in unhappy , -
ness in likeness). - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Derivational affix

The matching instruction that can meet the different needs of learners in a given
classroom. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS✔✔}-
Differentiated Instruction

(Keyword: different)

A group of two consecutive letters whose phonetic value is a single sound (e.g., /ea/ in
bread; /ch/ in chat; /ng/ in sing) - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Digraph

(Remember the word digraph has a digraPH)

A vowel produced by the tongue shifting position during articulation; a vowel that feels
as if it has two parts, especially the vowels spelled ow, oy, ou, and oi. -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
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(Remember the sentence, "wOW, yOU look good in that thong (diphthong)! :)

The teacher defines and teaches a concept, guides students through its application, and

,arranges for extended guided practice until mastery is achieved. -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Direct Instruction

Planned instruction to pre-teach new, important, and difficult words to ensure the
quantity and quality of exposures to words that students will encounter in their reading. -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS✔✔}-Direct Vocabulary Instruction

Strategies that help students engage the meanings of a text (e.g., asking questions at
critical junctures; modeling the thought process used to make inferences; constructing
mental imagery). - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS✔✔}-During Reading
Comprehension Strategies

A language-based disability that affects both oral and written language. It may also be
referred to as reading disability, reading difference, or reading disorder. -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
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A part of writing and preparing presentations concerned chiefly with improving the
clarity, organization, concision, and correctness of expression relative to task, purpose,
and audience; compared to revising, a smaller-scale activity often associated with
surface aspects of a text. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS✔✔}-Editing

A framework used during phonemic awareness instruction. These are sometimes
referred to as Sound Boxes. When working with words, the teacher can draw one box
per sound for a target word. Students push a marker into one box as they segment each
sound in the word. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS✔✔}-Elkonin Boxes

The skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to conventional
forms of reading and writing. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Emergent Literacy

The ability to translate language into print (writing) is ____________. -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Encoding

(Remember prefix en- means "put into", you are putting sounds into print).

Students whose first language is not English and who are in the process of learning
English. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS✔✔}-
English Language Learner

, The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning is called
________________. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Etymology

This type of instruction is step-by-step, and the actions of the teacher are clear, specific,
direct, and related to the learning objective. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Explicit Instruction

(Remember, explicit means something is "expressed clearly")

Reports factual information (also referred to as informational text) and the relationships
among ideas. This type of text tends to be more difficult for students than narrative text
because of the density of long, difficult, and unknown words or word parts. -
{✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Expository text

(Remember, Expository is writing that seeks to EXplain and Inform)

Language that is spoken. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS✔✔}-Expressive
Language

Language that departs from its literal meaning (e.g., The snow sparkled like diamonds;
That child is a handful.). - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Figurative meanings

What are the 5 components of Reading? - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Grouping students according to shared instructional needs and abilities and regrouping
as their instructional needs change. Group size and allocated instructional time may
vary among groups. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Flexible grouping

Words of one syllable, ending in "f", "l", "z" or "s" - after one vowel is called the
______________ ______________. - {✔✔CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS✔✔}-Floss/ SAMMY Rule

The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression and