KPEERI Exam Prep #3 Exam Questions With Complete Solutions

KPEERI Exam Prep #3 Exam Questions With Complete Solutions Regular Words - answerSpelled how they sound. Phonetics - answerStudy of the characteristics of speech sounds in language Metacognition - answerAwareness and understanding of one's own thought processes Irregular Words - answerMust be memorized, because they are spelled in unexpected ways. (sight words) Rule Words - answerSpelled the way they sound, but a letter might need to be doubled, dropped or changed. Etomology - answerThe study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. Précis - answerStudents own words of an author's message.(summary) Phonology - answerSystem of rules and patterns that determine how sounds operate and how they are used in spoken language. Mnemonic strategies - answerStrategies to improve memory of pattern of letters, ideas. Examples are: -Key words -Chunking -Rhyming -Visualizing Word Awareness - answerAbility to determine how many words are in a spoken or written sentence. Phonemic Awareness - answerAwareness of phonemes in spoken words -Identifying sounds in words -Segmenting (analytic) -Blending (synthetic) -Changing sound in words -Omitting sounds in words Executive Function - answerResponsible for: -Paying Attention -Organizing and planning -Task management -Regulating emotions -Self-monitoring Syllable - answerSpeech unit May or may not carry meaning Working Memory - answerCapacity to hold information for short periods of time while manipulating it. (crucial to executive function) Chall's 5 stages of reading - answer0. Pre-reading 1. Initial reading and decoding 2. confirmation/fluency 3. Reading for new learning 4. Reading multiple viewpoints 5. Construction and reconstruction Morpheme - answerSmallest unit that carries meaning like; prefixes, suffixes, base or root words. May be a syllable, multiple syllables or part of a syllable.. Root - answerA unit of meaning Reading Development Stage 0 - answerPre-reading -birth to Age 6 -developing oral language -beginning to recognize letters -recognizing that language is present in books Affix - answer-suffix: added to the end of a base word -prefix: added to the beginning of a base word Reading Development Stage 1 - answerInitial Reading and Decoding -grade 1 to beginning of grade 2 -learning high frequency words, better comprehension -learning how sounds in spoken words relate to print Affixes - answerAre prefixes and suffixes added to base/root words Reading Development Stage 2 - answerConfirmation, Fluency -grades 2-3, ages 7-8 -knowledge of letters and sounds -reading with fluency -reading for pleasure Grapheme - answerSmallest unit of written language that represents a phoneme in the spelling of a word. Reading Development Stage 2 - answerReading for new learning -grades 4-8 Letter - answerSymbol that represents a Grapheme (26 letters in the alphabet) Reading Development Stage 4 - answerReading multiple viewpoints -comprehension deepens -high school -grades 9-12, ages 14-18 Pragmatics - answer-Social use of language. -How language is used to achieve goals. - Involves rules or conventions that vary from culture to culture. Hierarchy of Phonemic Awareness Skills - answer1. Sensitivity to rhyme (age 3)