KPEERI Exam Study Guide 2023/2024 Latest Update

A word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound - Answer syllable Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds - Answer consonant blend Two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound - 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. - Answer context clues Sounds that can be held for several seconds without distortion - 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. - Answer Coordinated Instructional Sequences Instruction that builds upon previously learned concepts. - Answer Cumulative Instruction Text in which a high proportion of words comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught. - Answer Decodable Text These words contain phonic elements that were previously taught. - 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). - Answer Derivational affix The matching instruction that can meet the different needs of learners in a given classroom. - Answer 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) - 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. - Answer Dipthong (Remember the sentence,