KPEERI EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2021 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS

KPEERI EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2021 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS “A word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound - CORRECT ANSWER syllable" "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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER Dipthong (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 ANSWER Direct Instruction" "The level at which a reader reads at less than a 90% accuracy - CORRECT ANSWER Frustrational Reading Level" "Vocabulary common to written texts but not commonly a part of speech; in the Standards, these words and phrases are analogous to Tier Two words and phrases are typically this... - CORRECT ANSWER General academic words and phrases (Remember, Tier 2 isn't necessarily common in every day language Ex. analyze, restrict, formulate.)" "The ability to use a learned skill in novel situations. - CORRECT ANSWER Generalization" "A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme. In English, this may be one, two, three, or four letters, such as e, ei, igh, or eigh. - CORRECT ANSWER grapheme (Etymology Online- graph= "letter, symbol" + eme ="unit of language structure.")" "A visual framework or structure for capturing the main points of what is being read, which may include concepts, ideas, events, vocabulary, or generalizations. These allow ideas in text and thinking processes to become external by showing the interrelatedness of ideas, thus facilitating understanding for the reader. - CORRECT ANSWER Graphic Organizers" "The relationship between letters and phonemes. - CORRECT ANSWER Graphophonemic (Examples would include Recognizing alphabetic sequence while singing the alphabet song, naming letters as well as matching upper and lowercase letters)." "Instructional support including immediate corrective feedback as students read orally. - CORRECT ANSWER Guided Oral Reading" "Students practice newly learned skills with the teacher providing prompts and feedback. - CORRECT ANSWER Guided Practice" "Words in print containing letters that stray from the most common sound pronunciation because they do not follow common phonic patterns (e.g., were, was, laugh, been). - CORRECT ANSWER High Frequency Irregular Words (These are "red words" or "heart words")" "A small group of words (300-500) that account for a large percentage of the words in print and can be regular or irregular words (i.e., Dolch or Fry). Often, they are referred to as "sight words" since automatic recognition of these words is required for fluent reading. - CORRECT ANSWER High Frequency Words" "A disorder that may affect the comprehension and use of spoken or written language as well as nonverbal language, such as eye contact and tone of speech, in both adults and children. - CORRECT ANSWER Language Learning Disability" "The matching of an oral sound to its corresponding letter or group of letters. - CORRECT ANSWER Letter-sound correspondence" "The words needed to understand what is heard. - CORRECT ANSWER Listening vocabulary A reader cannot understand a text without knowing what most of the words mean." "This concept includes reading, writing, and the creative and analytical acts involved in producing and comprehending texts. - CORRECT ANSWER Literacy" "Understanding of the basic facts that the student has read. - CORRECT ANSWER Comprehension" "The smallest units of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of a word is called a ________________. - CORRECT ANSWER phoneme" "In this activity, children make a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word. (Teacher: What word do you have if you add /s/ to the beginning of park? Children: spark.) - CORRECT ANSWER Phoneme Addition" "In this activity, children learn to listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes, and then combine the phonemes to form a word. (Teacher: What word is /b/ /i/ /g/? Children: /b/ /i/ /g/ is big. - CORRECT ANSWER Phoneme Blending" "In this activity, children recognize the word in a set of three or four words that has the "odd" sound. (Teacher: Which word doesn't belong? bun, bus, rug. Children: Rug does not belong. It doesn't begin with a /b/.) - CORRECT ANSWER Phoneme Categorization" "In this activity, children learn to recognize the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from another word. (Teacher: What is smile without the /s/? Children: Smile without the /s/ is mile.) - CORRECT ANSWER Phoneme Deletion" "In this activity, children learn to recognize the same sounds in different words. (Teacher: What sound is the same in fix, fall, and fun? Children: The first sound, /f/, is the same.) - CORRECT ANSWER Phoneme Identity" "In this activity, children learn to recognize and identify individual sounds in a word. (Teacher: What is the first sound in van? Children: The first sound in van is /v/.) - CORRECT ANSWER Phoneme Isolation" "In this activity, children break a word into its separate sounds, saying each sound as they tap out or count it. (Teacher: How many sounds are in grab? Children: /g/ /r/ /a/ /b/. Four sounds.) - CORRECT ANSWER Phoneme Segmentation" "In this activity, children substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word. (Teacher: The word is bug. Change /g/ to /n/. What's the new word? Children: bun.) - CORRECT ANSWER Phoneme Substitution" "Adding, deleting, and substituting sounds in words (e.g., add /b/ to oat to make boat; delete /p/ in pat to make at; substitute /o/ for /a/ in pat to make pot). - CORRECT ANSWER Phoneme Manipulation" "the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words. An example of how beginning readers show us they have phonemic awareness is combining or blending the separate sounds of a word to say the word ("/c/ /a/ /t/ - cat.") - CORRECT ANSWER Phonemic Awareness" "Refers to prior knowledge, the knowledge and experience that readers bring to the text. - CORRECT ANSWER Schema (Remember this sentence, If you have never been SKIing before, your SCHEma on the subject will be limited.)" "The vowel sound sometimes heard in an unstressed syllable and is most often sounded as /uh/ or as the short /u/ sound as in cup. - CORRECT ANSWER Schwa (Examples: Again, parrOt, thE, bacOn)" "A "roadmap" or "blueprint" for teachers that provides an overall picture of an instructional program and includes the range of teaching content and the order in which it is taught. - CORRECT ANSWER Scope and Sequence" "Separating the individual phonemes, or sounds, of a word into discrete units. - CORRECT ANSWER Segmenting" "The mental act of knowing when one does and does not understand what one is reading. When students use these strategies, they actively think about how they are learning or understanding the material, activities, or reading in which they are engaged. - CORRECT ANSWER Self Monitoring (Examples: Checklists, Before, During & After strategies, Reciprocal Teaching)" "Uses a grid to help explore how a set of things are related to one another. By analyzing the grid one can see connections, make predictions, and master important concepts. - CORRECT ANSWER Semantic Feature Analysis (Keyword- comparing with a grid)" "Portray the schematic relations that compose a concept; a strategy for graphically representing concepts. (Venn diagram, Timeline or a Word Web) - CORRECT ANSWER Semantic Map" "The way language conveys meaning. - CORRECT ANSWER Semantics (Keyword- meaning)" "These are words that are recognized immediately. Sometimes sight words are thought to be irregular, or high frequency words (e.g., the Dolch and Fry lists). However, any word that is recognized automatically - CORRECT ANSWER Sight Words" "Phonics instruction that matches phoneme to grapheme. - CORRECT ANSWER Sound to Symbol" "Refers to digraphs, vowel pairs, word families, and vowel variant spellings. - CORRECT ANSWER Spelling Patterns" "This sound can only be said for an instant, otherwise its sound will be distorted (i.e., / b/, /c/ /d/, /g/, /h/, /j/, /k/, /p/, /q/, /t/, /x/). Words beginning with these sounds are more difficult for students to sound out than words beginning with a continuous sound. - CORRECT ANSWER Stop Sounds" "What are the 6 elements of a story? - CORRECT ANSWER Characters, problem, solutions, themes, settings, and plot." "What type of Syllable is this? cat, cobweb - CORRECT ANSWER Closed" "What type of Syllable is this? he, silo - CORRECT ANSWER open" "What type of Syllable is this? like, milestone - CORRECT ANSWER Vowel Consonant E, Magic E" "What type of Syllable is this? roam, meat, rain - CORRECT ANSWER Vowel Team" "What type of Syllable is this? candle, juggle - CORRECT ANSWER Consonant-l-e" "What type of Syllable is this? firm, star - CORRECT ANSWER R controlled" "The act of breaking words into syllables. - CORRECT ANSWER Syllabication" "Words that have similar meanings. - CORRECT ANSWER Synonym" "Phrase and sentence structure (grammar). - CORRECT ANSWER Syntax (Think of the way Yoda talks, it's a SIN (SYNtax) because it's wrong.)" "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" "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" "During shared read aloud, teachers reveal their thinking processes by verbalizing: connections, questions, inferences, and predictions. - CORRECT ANSWER Think Alouds" "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" "A carefully planned sequence for instruction, similar to a builder's blueprint for a house. This is carefully thought out, strategic, and designed before activities and lessons are planned. Lessons build on previously taught information, from simple to complex. - CORRECT ANSWER Systematic Instruction" "Multiple Spelling patterns for a specific sound or a variety of spelling patterns for one sound (e.g., long a spelled a, a_e, ai_, _ay). - CORRECT ANSWER Varient Correspondences (varient- something substantially the same, but in different form)" "This term refers to the words a person knows when hearing them in oral speech - CORRECT ANSWER Listening vocabulary" "Knowledge of the meaning and pronunciation of words. - CORRECT ANSWER Vocabulary" "This term refers to the words we use when we speak. - CORRECT ANSWER Speaking vocabulary" "This term refers to refers to the words we use in writing. - CORRECT ANSWER Writing Vocabulary" "Two vowels together that represent one phoneme, or sound (e.g., ea, ai, oa). - CORRECT ANSWER Vowel Diagraph, Vowel Pair or Vowel Team" "These are words from other languages that are the origin of many English words. About 60 percent of all English words have Latin or Greek origins. - CORRECT ANSWER Word Roots" "The act of deliberately investigating words (e.g., vocabulary-building exercises, word-identification practice, and spelling). - CORRECT ANSWER Word Study" "Word parts that are "fixed to" either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the endings of words (suffixes). The word disrespectful has two of these, a prefix (dis-) and a suffix (-ful). - CORRECT ANSWER Affix" "This term refers to the words a person knows when seeing them in print. - CORRECT ANSWER Reading Vocabulary" "The understanding that spoken words are made up of sounds that can be represented by letters in print. - CORRECT ANSWER Alphabetic Principle" "This is a general term that refers to any skilled and complex behavior that can be performed rather easily with little attention, effort, or conscious awareness. These skills become automatic after extended periods of training. - CORRECT ANSWER Automaticity (Keyword- Automatic)" "Which Manner of articulation has a Puff of air, blockage in some part of the mouth. Cannot continue or stretch the sound? ex. /b/ /k/ - CORRECT ANSWER Stop/Plosive (Remember the /p/ in the word Plosive is a plosive or stop sound)" "In this stage of Spelling Development, the speller knows the English orthographic system and its basic rules. The correct speller fundamentally understands how to deal with such things as prefixes and suffixes, silent consonants, alternative spellings, and irregular spellings. A large number of learned words are accumulated, and the speller recognizes incorrect forms. The child's generalizations about spelling and knowledge of exceptions are usually correct. - CORRECT ANSWER Correct stage (Remember, they are able to CORRECTly spell at this age)" "The manner of articulation which Friction is caused through lips, air, tongue or teeth. Can often be described as a hissing sound. ex. /f/ /v/ - CORRECT ANSWER Fricative (Remember the /f/ in fricative is a fricative sound)" "Which Manner of articulation has a Sound passing through the nose."Try pinching your nose and saying the sound /m/." ex. /m/ /n/ - CORRECT ANSWER Nasal (Remember the /n/ in Nasal is a nasal sound)" "Which manner of Articulation is: Sound glides into another phoneme, making it hard not to add the schwa onto the end /yu/, /wu/ ? e.x. /y/ /w/ - CORRECT ANSWER Glides (Remember the sentence: You're /y/ gliding where /w/?)" "Which manner of articulation begins as a stop but releases as a fricative. ex. /ch/ /j/ - CORRECT ANSWER Affricates Remember the sentence: Africa (Affricates) is known for Giraffes/j/, CHimpanzees /ch/ and Jakals /j/." "Which manner of Articulation is: Tongue causes partial closure of the mouth. Push of air can cause liquid to move throughout the mouth? ex. /l/ /r/ - CORRECT ANSWER liquids (Remember the /l/ in liquid is a liquid sound.)" "This Text genre gives instructions on how to do something. - CORRECT ANSWER procedural" "This Text genre Encourages someone to do something. - CORRECT ANSWER Hortatory (from the word exhort= strongly encourage or urge)" "This text genre List the characteristics of something. - CORRECT ANSWER Descriptive Text" "___________________ ____________ is a broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language - parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes. ... __________________ ____________ refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. - CORRECT ANSWER Phonological Awareness, Phonemic awareness" "This refers to the degree to which scores from a particular test are consistent from one use of the test to the next. - CORRECT ANSWER reliability (Keyword- Is it reliable? Do you get STABLE and CONSISTENT results?)" "This refers to the degree to which a test score can be interpreted and used for its intended purpose - CORRECT ANSWER validity (Keyword- how well it measures what it is meant to measure)" "Able to identify a word , and identify a letter are what concept? - CORRECT ANSWER Concept of Print" "These are given to all students at the beginning of the school year to determine which students are at risk of struggling with reading. They are not used to diagnose specific skill gaps; rather, they help to identify children who need diagnostic assessments, as well as children who may require supplemental intervention. - CORRECT ANSWER Screening Assessments (Key Word- Screen Students at the beginning of the year to see if they need intervention)" "These are used to assess specific skills or components of reading such as phonemic awareness, phonics skills, and fluency. The results of diagnostic assessments inform instruction and intervention - CORRECT ANSWER Diagnostic Assessments (Keywords: assesses specific skills or components to "diagnose" a specific need)" "This Describes a topic (academic, factual, informational) - CORRECT ANSWER Expository Discourse (Think EXplain)" "Students without _______________ skills normally have difficulty decoding words. - CORRECT ANSWER phonology" "Students without __________ skills may have difficulty spelling words. - CORRECT ANSWER orthography" "_____________ skills are beneficial to learners in vocabulary building and spelling. - CORRECT ANSWER Morphology" "Students without knowledge of _______________ may have difficulty with vocabulary knowledge with also effects comprehension. - CORRECT ANSWER Semantics" "Students without _____________ skills may have problems with sentence structure, grammar and the mechanics of writing. - CORRECT ANSWER syntactic" "Students not familiar with ___________ __________ may have problems writing narratives or expository papers, struggle with oral communication (having conversations). - CORRECT ANSWER Discourse Organization" "These are Characteristics of what? Difficulty planning and coordinating body movements Difficulty coordinating muscles to produce sounds - CORRECT ANSWER Characteristics of Dyspraxia" "These are Characteristics of what? Inattention Attention varies Distractibility Impulsively Over-activity - CORRECT ANSWER ADHD/ADD" "These are Characteristics of what? Difficulty counting accurately May reverse numbers Difficulty memorizing math facts Difficulty copying math problems and organizing written work Many calculation errors Difficulty retaining math vocabulary and/or concepts - CORRECT ANSWER Dyscalculia" "These are characteristics of what? Unsure of right or left handedness Poor or slow handwriting Messy and unorganized papers Difficulty copying Poor fine motor skills - CORRECT ANSWER Dysgraphia" "Which kind of Spelling error is this ? Intended word: lump; child's spelling: lup. - CORRECT ANSWER This is a phonologically based error; the child has omitted the sound /m/" "Which kind of Spelling error is this ? Intended word: best; child's spelling: bets. - CORRECT ANSWER This is a phonologically based error; the child has incorrectly sequenced the sounds in the word." "Which kind of Spelling error is this ? Intended word: shirt; child's spelling: shert. - CORRECT ANSWER This is an orthographic pattern error. The child has produced a phonologically acceptable spelling of the word, but not the correct spelling. There is no "rule" for using ir rather than er in shirt; the child just has to have enough familiarity with the printed word to know that shirt is spelled with an ir not an er." "Which kind of Spelling error is this ? Intended word: stuff; child's spelling: stuf. - CORRECT ANSWER This error reflects lack of knowledge of a spelling generalization, the "floss" rule, that the f at the end of this word needs to be doubled." "Which kind of Spelling error is this ? Intended word: sliding; child's spelling: slideing. - CORRECT ANSWER This is an error related to a spelling generalization, that when adding -ing to a silent e base word, the e should be dropped." "Which kind of Spelling error is this ? Intended word: slapped; child's spelling: slapt. - CORRECT ANSWER This is a morphemic error. Although the word sounds like it ends with /t/, the child must recognize that -ed is used to spell past tense." "Which kind of Spelling error is this ? Intended word: psychic; child's spelling: pyskic. - CORRECT ANSWER This is a morphemic error that reflects confusion about the correct spelling of the morpheme psych." "Which kind of Spelling error is this ? Intended word: two (as in "two cats"). Child's spelling: too ("too cats"). - CORRECT ANSWER This is a semantically-based error, a confusion of when to use the spelling two (a number) vs. too(meaning "also")." "Which kind of Spelling error is this ? Intended word: except (as in "except for ..."). Child's spelling: accept ("accept for .."). - CORRECT ANSWER This is a semantically-based confusion between two different words, accept and except, that sound similar but have different meanings and spellings." "What are some conditions in which children are at risk for reading difficulties (Group Risk Factors) ? - CORRECT ANSWER -They are expected to attend schools in which achievement is chronically low -They reside in low-income families and live in poor neighborhoods -They have limited proficiency in spoken English -They speak a dialect of English that differs substantially from the one used in school" "What are some conditions in which children are at risk for reading difficulties (Individual Risk Factors) ? - CORRECT ANSWER -They are children of parents with histories of reading difficulty. -They have acquired less knowledge and skill pertaining to literacy during the preschool years, either through lack of appropriate home literacy experiences and/or as a result of some inherent cognitive limitations -They lack age-appropriate skills in literacy-related cognitive-linguistic processing, especially phonological awareness, confrontational naming, sentence/story recall, and general language ability -They have been diagnosed as having specific early language impairment, a hearing impairment, or a primary medical diagnosis with which reading problems tend to occur as a secondary symptom" "Which Language of origin is described? -Short, one-syllable words, sometimes compounded -Use of vowel teams, silent letters, digraphs, diphthongs in spelling -Words for common, everyday things -Irregular spellings - CORRECT ANSWER Anglo-Saxon(Old English)" "Which Language of origin is described? -ou for /ū/ -Soft c and gwhen followed by e, i, y -Special endings such as -ine, -ette, -elle, -ique -Words for food and fashion, abstract social ideals, relationships - CORRECT ANSWER Norman French" "Which Language of origin is described? -Multisyllabic words with prefixes, roots, suffixes -Content words found in text of social sciences, traditional physical sciences, and literature - CORRECT ANSWER Latin/Romance" "Which Language of origin is described? -Spellings ph for /f/, ch for /k/, and y for /ǔ/ -Constructed from combining forms, similar to English compounds -Philosophical, mathematical and . scientific terminology - CORRECT ANSWER Greek" "Which Language of origin is described in the following words? sky, earth, moon, sun, water, sheep, dog, horse, cow, hen, head, arm, finger, toe, heart, shoe, shirt, pants, socks, coat, brother, father, mother, sister, hate, love, think, want, touch, does, were, been, would, do - CORRECT ANSWER Anglo-Saxon(Old English)" "Which Language of origin is described in the following words? amuse, cousin, cuisine, country, peace, triage, rouge, baguette, novice, justice, soup, coupon, nouvelle, boutique - CORRECT ANSWER Norman French" "Which Language of origin is described in the following words? firmament, terrestrial, solar, stellar, aquarium, mammal, equine, pacify, mandible, extremity, locomotion, paternal, maternity, designate, hostility, amorous, contemplate, delectable, deception, reject, refer - CORRECT ANSWER Latin/Romance" "Which Language of origin is described in the following words? hypnosis, agnostic, neuropsychology, decathalon, catatonic, agoraphobia, chlorophyll, physiognomy - CORRECT ANSWER Greek" "What percentage of the English Language is derived from Latin, French or Greek origin? - CORRECT ANSWER About 70% of the words derive from Latin, French, or Greek." "What percentage of the English Language is derived from German origin? - CORRECT ANSWER About 22% from German origin." "How could knowing the following information be helpful to students? The words bat, battle, battalion, combat, combatant, combative, battering ram and debate contain the root -bat- meaning 'to beat. - CORRECT ANSWER Approaching these related words through their shared root offers a way to decode, encode, and decipher meanings." "What is the name of a prefix (often nicknamed chameleon) where, for ease of pronunciation, the final letter changes according to the initial letter of the base to which it is attached (e.g., ad- changes to ar- before range to make arrange; in- changes to im- before pact to make impact) - CORRECT ANSWER Assimilated Prefix" "What is the name for a free morpheme; word with no prefixes and suffixes (e.g., -port-, -kind-) ? - CORRECT ANSWER Base Word or Root Word" "What is the term often used to describe Greek-based morphemes (rather than specifying whether they are roots or affixes) (e.g., -phon-, -crac-/-crat-, -bio-) ? - CORRECT ANSWER Combining Form also called element" "What is the term for letter(s) in English words used to combine two morphemes; connectives function as "glue" and are not morphemes themselves? - CORRECT ANSWER connective" "Which connective describes this? Connects a root to a suffix or two suffixes to each other (e.g., media, gradient, regular). three common connectives: -i-, -u-, and -ul-. - CORRECT ANSWER Latin-Based Connectives" "Which connective describes this? Connective -o- often joins two combining forms or elements (e.g., photograph, democracy) - CORRECT ANSWER Greek-Based Connective" "Which part of speech uses this final stable syllable? -ist (dentist, florist) - CORRECT ANSWER noun (people noun)" "Which part of speech uses this final stable syllable?-ment (investment, argument) - CORRECT ANSWER noun" "Which part of speech uses this final stable syllable? -or (instructor, tutor) - CORRECT ANSWER noun (people noun)" "Which part of speech uses this final stable syllable? -ture (nature, adventure) - CORRECT ANSWER noun" "Which part of speech uses this final stable syllable? -ize (utilize, systematize) - CORRECT ANSWER verb" "Which part of speech uses this final stable syllable? -ive (talkative, active) - CORRECT ANSWER adjective" "Which part of speech uses this final stable syllable? -ous (dangerous) - CORRECT ANSWER adjective" "This describes which tier of vocabulary? This tier consists of words that are used across the content areas and are important for students to know and understand. Included here are process words like analyze and evaluate that students will run into on many standardized tests and that are also used at the university level, in many careers, and in everyday life. We really want to get these words into students' long-term memory. - CORRECT ANSWER Tier 2 Vocabulary" "This describes which tier of vocabulary? These are the common, everyday words that most children enter school knowing already. Since we don't need to teach these, this is a tier without tears! - CORRECT ANSWER Tier 1 Vocabulary" "Reading is an interactive process that requires three levels of understanding, what are the levels? - CORRECT ANSWER surface code, text base, and mental models." "This describes which tier of vocabulary? This tier consists of content-specific vocabulary—the words that are often defined in textbooks or glossaries. These words are important for imparting ideas during lessons and helping to build students' background knowledge. - CORRECT ANSWER Tier 3 Vocabulary" "The Level of Comprehension that refers to the exact wording of the text. - CORRECT ANSWER The surface code" "The level of Comprehension that requires readers to dig a little deeper and identify main ideas in text. - CORRECT ANSWER Text base" "The Level of Comprehension that is derived from the meaning students construct with the text. - CORRECT ANSWER Mental Model" "What are the sounds of -ed? - CORRECT ANSWER /id/ floated /t/ walked /d/dreamed" "Count the morphemes in the word prescription. - CORRECT ANSWER pre + script + ion (3)" "Count the morphemes in the word disruptive. - CORRECT ANSWER dis + rupt + ive (3)" "Count the morphemes in the word structurally. - CORRECT ANSWER struct + ure + al + ly (4)" "Count the morphemes in the word connectivity. - CORRECT ANSWER con + nect + ive + ity (4)" "Count the morphemes in the word hypothermia. - CORRECT ANSWER hypo + therm + ia (3)" "The process of hearing a sound and being able to write a symbol to represent that sound. - CORRECT ANSWER Encoding" "This term involves seeing a written symbol and being able to say what sound it represents. - CORRECT ANSWER Decoding" "What are the 5 components of Language Comprehension on Scarborough's Reading Rope? - CORRECT ANSWER Background Knowledge, Vocabulary, language Structures, Verbal Reasoning and Literacy Knowledge" "What are the 3 components of Word Recognition on Scarborough's Reading Rope? - CORRECT ANSWER Phonological Awareness, Decoding and Sight Recognition" "A group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought. Ex. I went to the store and bought groceries. - CORRECT ANSWER Independent Clause (It's independent, you won't need any help understanding what it means.)" "A group of words that contains a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought. Ex. I went to the... - CORRECT ANSWER Dependent Clause (It's dependent, it's contingent upon finishing the rest of the thought)" "This is a term for a sentence with an independent clause with no conjunction or dependent clause. - CORRECT ANSWER Simple Sentence" "This is a term for a sentence with two independent clauses joined by a conjunction (e.g., and, but, or, for, nor, yet, so). - CORRECT ANSWER Compound Sentence" "This is a term for a sentence that contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. - CORRECT ANSWER Complex Sentence" "This term includes not only the mechanical and visual perceptual processes of graphics and handwriting, but also the acquisition of language, learned spelling and phonology. - CORRECT ANSWER Graphomotor Skills" "This term involves the ability or capacity to accurately interpret or give meaning to what is seen (skill required for handwriting) - CORRECT ANSWER Visual-perceptual skills:" "Morphology studies the structure of sentences, True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER False, Morphology is the studies the structure of words, Syntax studies the structure of sentences." "This term refers to the ability to both store in memory and retrieve from memory letters and word patterns. (skill needed for handwriting) - CORRECT ANSWER Orthographic Coding" "This term means the ability to conceive/ideate, organize/plan, and execute a novel task. - CORRECT ANSWER Motor planning and execution: (Knowing what to do, knowing how to do it and carrying it out in a smooth process.)" "This term comes from the sensorimotor system and is required for any motor action. Kinesthesia is the knowledge of where each body part is and direction in which it is moving. It is a component of motor control for legible handwriting produced at an acceptable rate. - CORRECT ANSWER Kinesthetic Feedback" "The term for "conscious" knowing. This type of memory has two pathways for storage and retrieval - semantic and episodic. - CORRECT ANSWER Explicit Memory (Semantic, Episodic)" "The term for unconscious and automatic. This type of memory also has two pathways for storage and retrieval - procedural and emotional. - CORRECT ANSWER Implicit memory (procedural, Emotional)" "The area of the brain that processes articulation and helps us connect sounds to letters. - CORRECT ANSWER Broca's Area" "This area of the brain is located above the back ear, is responsible in decoding or breaking down a word (e.g. C+AT= CAT). This part of the brain is not always activated in dyslexic people. - CORRECT ANSWER Left parieto-temporal area" "This area of the brain is located behind the ears towards the back part of the head, functions as the visual word-form area (in the right side of the brain - it helps in word-form memory. This part of the brain is not always activated in dyslexic people. - CORRECT ANSWER Occipito-Temporal Area," "This side of the brain of this area is responsible for mapping phonetic sounds to the corresponding letters. - CORRECT ANSWER The Left side of the Brain (Remember the sentence: The phonetic sounds LEFT and went to the corresponding letters)." "This side of the brain functions as the visual word-form area it helps in word-form memory. - CORRECT ANSWER The right side of the brain. (Remember the sentence: Your word form is RIGHT!)" "When determining the Reading difficulty, and skill gaps... Students who have good or adequate language comprehension and good or adequate decoding are - CORRECT ANSWER Most likely at or above grade level in reading." "When determining the Reading difficulty, and skill gaps... What is the profile of Students who have good language comprehension but poor word recognition/decoding skills? - CORRECT ANSWER This profile is termed specific word recognition difficulties (SWRD), because the child's reading problems are specific to word recognition, not language comprehension." "When determining the Reading difficulty, and skill gaps... What is the profile of Students who have poor language comprehension but good word recognition/decoding skills? - CORRECT ANSWER This profile is called specific comprehension difficulties (SCD), because the child's reading problems are specific to comprehension and do not involve reading words." "When determining the Reading difficulty, and skill gaps... What is the profile of Students who have weaknesses in both language comprehension and word recognition/decoding skills? - CORRECT ANSWER This profile is often called mixed reading difficulties (MRD), because the reading problems include both word recognition and comprehension." "Students with good language comprehension but poor word recognition (SWRD), typically need what kind of intervention? - CORRECT ANSWER Phonics intervention. For most of these children, effective phonics intervention, if accompanied by adequate levels of fluency, should enable children to achieve grade-appropriate reading comprehension" "Students with poor language comprehension but good word recognition and decoding (SCD), need what type of intervention? - CORRECT ANSWER They require comprehension interventions that address their specific needs in the domain of comprehension (e.g., vocabulary, background knowledge, inferencing)." "Students with weaknesses in both language comprehension and word recognition/decoding (MRD), require what type of intervention? - CORRECT ANSWER They will need both phonics intervention and intervention addressing their specific comprehension needs." "According to Scarborough's Reading Rope, what are 5 the components to Language Comprehension? - CORRECT ANSWER Language Comprehension-Background Knowledge, Vocabulary, Language Structure, Verbal Reasoning, Literacy Knowledge (Here is a mnemonic sentence, If you take the first Letter of each component, Language Comprehension Brings Kids Valuable Lessons Since Vulnerable Readers Lack Knowledge)" "According to Scarborough's Reading Rope, what are 3 the components to Word Recognition? - CORRECT ANSWER Word Recognition- Phonological Awareness, Decoding, Sight Recognition (Here is a mnemonic sentence, If you take the first Letter of each component, Word Recognition Pains All Dyslexic Students Regularly)" "What are the 3 components of fluency? - CORRECT ANSWER A.R.E. Accuracy Rate Expression" "When referring to Reading and the brain, What is included in the "Four Part Processor" Model? (These systems must work together to support word recognition) - CORRECT ANSWER Context Processor, Orthographic Processor, Meaning Processor and Phonological Processor. (How to remember- your Reading Brain is a COMPuter- Context, Orthographic, Meaning, Phonological)" "When Remembering Chall's Stages of Reading, which stage do you read multiple texts and assimilate information? - CORRECT ANSWER Stage 6, The Construction and Reconstruction stage which usually occurs in college/adulthood. (Remember- in college, you can get a degree in CONSTRUCTION)" "When Remembering Chall's Stages of Reading, which phase do you pretend to read, point to words and pictures and recite the alphabet? - CORRECT ANSWER The Pre Reading Stage which is birth to Kindergarten. (Remember: PREreading, PREtending takes place in the timeframe of PRE-K)" "When Remembering Chall's Stages of Reading, which stages do you appreciate different points of view and appreciate reading for knowledge and enjoyment? - CORRECT ANSWER The Developing Multiple Viewpoints which occurs in High School. (Remember you go to the DMV (Developing Multiple Viewpoints) in your High School Years)." "When Remembering Chall's Stages of Reading, which stage do you gain phonemic awareness and focus on letter sound relationships? - CORRECT ANSWER The Read and Decode Phase which takes place in 1st/2nd grade. (Remember: Obviously Reading and Decoding are taught in the 1st and 2nd grade timeframe)." "When Remembering Chall's Stages of Reading, which phase do you start to read for learning, instead of learning to read? - CORRECT ANSWER The Read for Learning, which usually occurs in 4th to 8th grade. Students are using their reading skills in other subject areas such as science, math, history and geography. (Remember- 4th-8th grade they are using reading for 4 (4th) other subject areas- science, math, history and geography)" "When Remembering Chall's Stages of Reading, which phase do you become fluent at recognizing words, and that print is associated with familiar stories? - CORRECT ANSWER The Fluency Stage which usually occurs in 2nd/3rd grade. (Remember- FLU-ency and two (2nd grade) rhyme.)" "What are the 5 Stages of Spelling Development? - CORRECT ANSWER Pre-Communicative, Semi-phonetic, Phonetic, Transitional, Correct" "According to Nancy Young's Reading Ladder, what percentage of students are advantaged by the Structured Literacy Approach? - CORRECT ANSWER 40%" "According to Nancy Young's Reading Ladder, what percentage of students is it essential to be taught by the Structured Literacy Approach? - CORRECT ANSWER 60%" "What are the 4 areas in which teachers can differentiate instruction? - CORRECT ANSWER Content, Process, Products and Learning Environment." "What is the 10th disability type (in which Dyslexia falls under)? - CORRECT ANSWER Specific Learning Disability (SLD)" "What is a federal law that sets specific standards for the education of those with special needs? - CORRECT ANSWER The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)" "Why should you use nonsense words or syllables during the Vowel Intensive? - CORRECT ANSWER Because they don't have phonemic awareness which is needed when reading multisyllabic words." "Language that is spoken or written is ____________ language. - CORRECT ANSWER Expressive Language. (You express yourself when you speak or write)" "Language that is heard or read is ________________language. - CORRECT ANSWER Receptive Language. (When you hear or read, you are receiving information)" "What type of articulation is /sh/? - CORRECT ANSWER A Fricative sound." "What type of articulation is /g/? - CORRECT ANSWER A Stop sound." "What type of articulation is /ng/? - CORRECT ANSWER A nasal Sound." "What type of articulation is /ch/? - CORRECT ANSWER An Affricate sound." "What type of articulation is /y/? - CORRECT ANSWER A Glide sound." "What type of articulation is /r/? - CORRECT ANSWER A Liquid sound." "Which origin does the following come from? Short words with vowel teams, silent letters, and some of our more challenging configurations o ing = /ēng/ king o aw=/ô/ lawn o or = /er/ work o kn = /n/ knife - CORRECT ANSWER Anglo-Saxon Origin" "Which origin does the following come from? Often found in math and science vocabulary • Includes o ch = /k/ o y=/ĭ/ o ph = /f/ school gym phone - CORRECT ANSWER Greek Origin" "What marking is used to indicate a short vowel? - CORRECT ANSWER A breve." "What marking is used to indicate a long vowel? - CORRECT ANSWER A Macron." "Magic e makes the preceding vowel long. True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER True" "English word ends in v and do not need a silent e. True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER False. No English word ends in v, it always has to have a silent e." "x says /x/ true or false? - CORRECT ANSWER False, x says /ks/" "No English word ends with j, true or false? - CORRECT ANSWER True!" "The National Assessment of Educational Progress consistently finds that about ________% of all fourth graders read at a level described as "below basic," - CORRECT ANSWER 31%" "What are the (5) language processing requirements of proficient reading and writing? - CORRECT ANSWER Phonological, Orthographic, Semantic, Syntactic, Discourse." "When teaching struggling High School and Middle School students, what is one of the main things you must consider? - CORRECT ANSWER Motivation. *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "You go to make copies of a workbook and notice a copyright at the bottom of the page, what should you do? a. make the copies anyway b. ask the school to buy workbooks for the entire class c. re-type the worksheet and copy it d. none of the above - CORRECT ANSWER b. ask the school to buy workbooks for the entire class *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "You have a struggling reader that you have been seeing for a while. The parents have found a new auditory tutoring method they want you to try with the student. Ethically, what should you do? a. research the method and give it a try b. inform the parents that the method will not help their son c. try the new method to appease them d. integrate is with the current methods you are using - CORRECT ANSWER b. inform the parents that the method will not help their son *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "Which scores would be the characteristics of a student who is dyslexic? (mean score 100) a. oral language comprehension 91, decoding 89 b. oral language comprehension 94, Spelling 61 c. spelling 85, Oral Language Comprehension 80 d. Decoding 90, Oral Language Comprehension 72 - CORRECT ANSWER b. Oral Language Comprehension 94, Spelling 61 *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "A group of Students is having problems with the following passage: Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world, except for a nice MLT: mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. In what area might the teacher need to focus on with these students? a. decoding b. fluency c. syntax d. morphemes - CORRECT ANSWER c. syntax *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "which of the following would be originated from the Greek language? a. act, acu, aud b. arthr, bio, crac c. dic, duct, dur d. s, -ing, -ed - CORRECT ANSWER b. arthr, bio, crac *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "This term is the ability to match motor output with visual input. It is this gross monitoring that prevents us from writing on the desk or crossing over lines, and keeps us within margins. - CORRECT ANSWER Visual-Motor Coordination" "in, ad, and ob, are examples of what? a. derivational suffixes b. connectives c. assimilated prefixes d. vowel teams - CORRECT ANSWER c. assimilated prefixes *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "Which type of compounds usually have closed, open, and VCe syllables? a. greek b. latin c. Anglo-Saxon d. French - CORRECT ANSWER c. Anglo-Saxon *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "What type of spelling error would this be: calerfol / colorful? a. orthographic b. phonological c. morphological d. animated - CORRECT ANSWER b. phonological Great resource: *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "What type of spelling error would this be: equilise / equalize? a. orthographic b. phonological c. morphological d. animated - CORRECT ANSWER c. morphological error Great resource: *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "Kevin knows his multiplication facts, but he "freezes up", he has trouble Making decisions and picking up on social cues, Writing is always hard for him, but it's even harder when his classmates keep saying "Hurry up!" What does Kevin display characteristics of? a. ADHD b. Dyphraxia c. Dyslexia d. Slow Processing Speed - CORRECT ANSWER d. Slow Processing Speed *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "Which spelling rule would go with these words? hoping, whales, glided a. dropping rule b. Magic e rule c. changing rule d. doubling rule - CORRECT ANSWER a. dropping rule There was a very similar question on my KPEERI, make sure you are familiar with all the spelling rules!" "How many different syllable patterns are used in the following words? How many ways is the /k/ sound spelled in the same list of words: sky, bake, click, took, ask, buckle, break, like, check, syllable patterns used/ ways to spell /k/ sounds a. 4, 4 b. 3, 3 c. 5, 4 d. 5, 3 - CORRECT ANSWER d. 5, 3 In the list of words, the different syllable patterns are Vowel Teams, open, closed, Magic E, consonant -le. The /k/ sound is spelled <k>, <c> and <ck>. *There was a very similar question on my KPEERI" "Which word has the most graphemes? A. teach B. thing C. Stripe D. Chew - CORRECT ANSWER C. S+t+r+i+p=5 (T+ea+ch=3, th+i+ng=3, ch+ew=2) This is similar to a question I had on the KPEERI." "Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds - CORRECT ANSWER consonant blend" "Two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound - CORRECT ANSWER consonant digraph" "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" "Sounds that can be held for several seconds without distortion - CORRECT ANSWER continuous sounds" "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 ANSWER Coordinated Instructional Sequences" "Instruction that builds upon previously learned concepts. - CORRECT ANSWER Cumulative Instruction" "Text in which a high proportion of words comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught. - CORRECT ANSWER Decodable Text" "These words contain phonic elements that were previously taught. - CORRECT ANSWER 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 ANSWER Derivational affix" "The matching instruction that can meet the different needs of learners in a given classroom. - CORRECT ANSWER Differentiated Instruction (Keyword: different)" "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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER Dyslexia" "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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER Elkonin Boxes" "The skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to conventional forms of reading and writing. - CORRECT ANSWER Emergent Literacy" "The ability to translate language into print (writing) is ____________. - CORRECT ANSWER 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 ANSWER English Language Learner" "The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning is called ________________. - CORRECT ANSWER 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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER Expository text (Remember, Expository is writing that seeks to EXplain and Inform)" "Language that is spoken. - CORRECT ANSWER Expressive Language" "Language that departs from its literal meaning (e.g., The snow sparkled like diamonds; That child is a handful.). - CORRECT ANSWER Figurative meanings" "What are the 5 components of Reading? - CORRECT ANSWER 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 ANSWER Flexible grouping" "Words of one syllable, ending in "f", "l", "z" or "s" - after one vowel is called the ______________ ______________. - CORRECT ANSWER Floss/ SAMMY Rule" "The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression and comprehension. - CORRECT ANSWER Fluency" "Follows a prescribed format for administration and scoring. Scores obtained from these types of tests are standardized, meaning that interpretation is based on norms from a comparative sample of children. - CORRECT ANSWER Formal Assessments (Remember, Formal means having a conventionally recognized form, structure, or set of rules- standardized)" "Words that are spelled the same but have different origins and meanings. They may or may not be pronounced the same (e.g., can as in a metal container/can as in able to). - CORRECT ANSWER Homograph -same spelling, different meaning and may have a different pronunciation (Remember- Homographs are always spelled the same, so remember the ending "-graph," which is a Greek root meaning "writing.") "When the teacher WRITES with a pencil, she needs LEAD to LEAD instruction" Lead= graphite Lead=guide" "Words that sound the same but are spelled differently (e.g., cents/sense, knight/night). - CORRECT ANSWER Homonym -Multiple Meaning Words- "nym" means name Remember the sentence "Hello, my name is Amber, I came to buy Amber. Amber= name Amber=fossilized resin" "Words that may or may not be spelled alike but are pronounced the same. These words are of different origins and have different meanings (e.g., ate and eight; scale as in the covering of a fish; and scale as in a device used to weigh things) - CORRECT ANSWER Homophone (Homophones always sound alike, so remember the ending "-phone," which is a Greek root meaning "sound.") Remember the sentence "I am on the PHONE, can you HEAR me in HERE?" Hear- listen Here- location" "A phrase or expression that differs from the literal meaning of the words; a regional or individual expression with a unique meaning (e.g., it's raining cats and dogs). - CORRECT ANSWER idiom (If you say something beyond literal meaning, you may sound like an Idiot (idiom).)" "When an error occurs, the teacher immediately attends to it by scaffolding instruction (i.e., gradual release of responsibility). - CORRECT ANSWER Immediate Corrective Feedback" "Instruction that may include more time, more opportunities for student practice, more teacher feedback, smaller group size, and different materials. It is implemented as soon as assessment indicates that students are not making adequate progress in reading. - CORRECT ANSWER Immediate Intensive Intervention" "The opposite of explicit instruction. Students discover skills and concepts instead of being explicitly taught. For example, the teacher writes a list of words on the board that begin with the letter "m" (mud, milk, meal, and mattress) and asks the students how the words are similar. The teacher elicits from the students that the letter "m" stands for the sound you hear at the beginning of the words. - CORRECT ANSWER Implicit Instruction (Remember the word implied- suggested but not directly expressed)" "The level at which a reader can read text with 95% accuracy (i.e., no more than one error per 20 words read). - CORRECT ANSWER Independent Reading Level (Remember 95%)" "The reading range that spans instructional and independent reading levels or level of text that a student can read with 90% to 95% or above accuracy. - CORRECT ANSWER Independent-instructional reading level range (Remember 90%-95%)" "This term refers to students learning the meaning of words indirectly when they hear or see the words used in many different contexts - for example, through conversations with adults, through being read to, and through reading extensively on their own. - CORRECT ANSWER Indirect Vocabulary Learning" "This describes the special education and related services specifically designed to meet the unique educational needs of a student with a disability. - CORRECT ANSWER Individualized Education Program" "Does not follow prescribed rules for administration and scoring and has not undergone technical scrutiny for reliability and validity. Teacher-made tests, end-of-unit tests, and running records are all examples of This. - CORRECT ANSWER Informal Assessments (Remember, Informal means having a relaxed, friendly, or unofficial)" "Non-fiction books that contain facts and information. - CORRECT ANSWER Informational/Expository Text (Remember Non-Fiction books are Informational and full of Explanations)" "The level at which a reader can read text with 90% accuracy (i.e., no more than one error per 10 words read). This level engages the student in challenging, but manageable text. - CORRECT ANSWER Instructional reading level (Remember 90%)" "These routines include the following sequence of steps: Explicit instruction Modeling Guided practice Student practice, application, and feedback Generalization - CORRECT ANSWER Instructional Routines" "This is provided only to students who are lagging behind their classmates in the development of critical reading skills. - CORRECT ANSWER Intervention Instruction" "Provides content for instruction that is intended for flexible use as part of differentiated instruction and/or more intensive instruction to meet student learning needs in one or more of the specific areas of reading (phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). - CORRECT ANSWER Intervention Program" "An attempt to spell a word based on a student's knowledge of the spelling system and how it works (e.g., kt for cat). - CORRECT ANSWER Invented Spelling" "An awareness of one's own thinking processes and how they work. The process of consciously thinking about one's learning or reading while actually being engaged in learning or reading. - CORRECT ANSWER Metacognition" "This is the smallest meaningful unit of language. This can be one syllable (book) or more than one syllable (seventeen). It can be a whole word or a part of a word such as a prefix or suffix. For example, the word ungrateful contains three of these: un, grate, and ful. - CORRECT ANSWER Morpheme" "An analysis of words formed by adding prefixes, suffixes or other meaningful word units to a base word. - CORRECT ANSWER Morphemic Analysis (meanings of words can be determined or inferred by examining their meaningful parts.) Ex. biology= bio+logy bio=life logy=the study of" "Units of meaning within words. The study of how words are formed from prefixes, roots, and suffixes (e.g., mis-spell-ing), and how words are related to each other. - CORRECT ANSWER Morphology Remember: Morphology (Greek Origin) morph+o+loge+y morph=form, structure loge= speech, word, account, reason" "This is using a word's letter patterns to help determine, in part, the meaning and pronunciation of a word. For example, the morpheme vis in words such as vision and visible is from the Latin root word that means to see; and the ay in stay is pronounced the same in the words gray and play. - CORRECT ANSWER Morphophonology morpho=shape/structure phono=sound logy=study of" "A comparison NOT using like or as. - CORRECT ANSWER Metaphor (Remember the sentence "He cut a rug when he TAP danced" - meTAPhor)" "This approach uses visual, auditory, and kinesthetic-tactile cues simultaneously to enhance memory and learning. Links are consistently made between the visual (what we see), auditory (what we hear), and kinesthetic-tactile (what we feel) pathways in learning to read and spell. - CORRECT ANSWER Multisensory Structured Language Education" "______________ is the rate at which a child can recite "overlearned" stimuli such as letters and single-digit numbers. (May be connected to executive functioning or processing speed) - CORRECT ANSWER Naming Speed" "A story about fictional or real events. - CORRECT ANSWER Narrative Text (Remember: The main purpose of a narrative is to entertain, think of the NARRATOR in a Fairy Tale)" "Vowels that are pronounced differently from the expected pronunciation (e.g., the "o" in old is pronounced /ō/ instead of the expected /o/. - CORRECT ANSWER oddities (odd, think different)" "A part of the word that is the initial consonant sound, blend, or digraph in a single syllable word or syllable. - CORRECT ANSWER Onset" "A part of the word that is the first vowel phoneme followed by all the other phonemes (at in rat; esh in fresh). - CORRECT ANSWER Rime" "In segmentation in the word swift, sw is the _________ and ift is the _________. - CORRECT ANSWER onset, rime" "What are the five components of oral language? - CORRECT ANSWER phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. (Remember: Oral Language gives me bad P.P.M.S.S.) ha ha" "A child with these difficulties may exhibit poor vocabulary, listening comprehension, or grammatical abilities for his or her age. - CORRECT ANSWER Oral language difficulties" "This is the understanding that the sounds in a language are represented by written or printed symbols. - CORRECT ANSWER Orthographic knowledge ortho=correct graphy=process of writing or recording" "This is the ability to identify words by sight (i.e., sight words) allowing instant recognition. T