KPEERI EXAM STUDY
GUIDE 2021
(WWW.DYFFERENCEM
AKERS.COM)/272
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS (A+)
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
Quiz: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
,Quiz: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
Quiz: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. -
√Answer>Direct Vocabulary Instruction
Quiz: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). - √Answer>During Reading
Comprehension Strategies
Quiz: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. - √Answer>Dyslexia
Quiz: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. - √Answer>Editing
,Quiz:The skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are
developmental precursors to conventional forms of
reading and writing. - √Answer>Emergent Literacy
Quiz:The ability to translate language into print
(writing) is ____________. - √Answer>Encoding
(Remember prefix en- means "put into", you are
putting sounds into print).
Quiz: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. - √Answer>Expository text
(Remember, Expository is writing that seeks to
EXplain and Inform)
Quiz:Language that departs from its literal
meaning (e.g., The snow sparkled like diamonds;
That child is a handful.). - √Answer>Figurative
meanings
Quiz:What are the 5 components of Reading? -
√Answer>Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency,
vocabulary, and comprehension.
, Quiz: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. -
√Answer>Formal Assessments
(Remember, Formal means having a
conventionally recognized form, structure, or set of
rules- standardized)
Quiz:The level at which a reader reads at less
than a 90% accuracy - √Answer>Frustrational
Reading Level
Quiz: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... -
√Answer>General academic words and phrases
(Remember, Tier 2 isn't necessarily common in
every day language Ex. analyze, restrict,
formulate.)
Quiz:The ability to use a learned skill in novel
situations. - √Answer>Generalization
Quiz:A letter or letter combination that spells a
single phoneme. In English, this may be one, two,
