KPEERI Exam Study Guide 2024/352
Questions with Answers
A word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound - -
syllable
-Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds -
-consonant blend
-Two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound - -
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. - -context clues
-Sounds that can be held for several seconds without distortion - -
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. - -Coordinated
Instructional Sequences
-Instruction that builds upon previously learned concepts. - -Cumulative
Instruction
-Text in which a high proportion of words comprise sound-symbol
relationships that have already been taught. - -Decodable Text
-These words contain phonic elements that were previously taught. - -
Decodable Words
-A prefix or suffix added to a root or base to form another word (e.g., -un in
unhappy , -ness in likeness). - -Derivational affix
-The matching instruction that can meet the different needs of learners in a
given classroom. - -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) - -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. - -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. - -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. - -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). - -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. - -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. - -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. - -Elkonin
Boxes
-The skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to
conventional forms of reading and writing. - -Emergent Literacy
-The ability to translate language into print (writing) is ____________. - -
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. - -English Language Learner
-The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning is called
________________. - -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. - -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. - -Expository text
(Remember, Expository is writing that seeks to EXplain and Inform)
-Language that is spoken. - -Expressive Language
-Language that departs from its literal meaning (e.g., The snow sparkled like
diamonds; That child is a handful.). - -Figurative meanings
-What are the 5 components of Reading? - -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. - -Flexible grouping
-Words of one syllable, ending in "f", "l", "z" or "s" - after one vowel is called
the ______________ ______________. - -Floss/ SAMMY Rule
-The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression
and comprehension. - -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. - -Formal
Assessments
(Remember, Formal means having a conventionally recognized form,
structure, or set of rules- standardized)
, -The level at which a reader reads at less than a 90% accuracy - -
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... - -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. - -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. - -
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. - -Graphic Organizers
-The relationship between letters and phonemes. - -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. - -Guided Oral Reading
-Students practice newly learned skills with the teacher providing prompts
and feedback. - -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). - -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).