KPEERI MAIN EXAMINATION SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔An example of teaching semantic gradients is when ________________: -
✔✔Arranging words that describe the speed of movement from fastest to slowest.
✔✔Which is a strategy for teaching vocabulary? - ✔✔Teaching students about 'word
parts', teaching students about 'multiple meanings' for words, and teaching students to
use context clues.
✔✔Students' vocabulary can be increased by: - ✔✔Discussing new words before
reading a story, listening to a teacher explain the meaning of unknown words, and
teaching students to look for word parts such as prefixes, root words, etc.
✔✔Preschool age children have a __________________ vocabulary. - ✔✔Speaking
and listening.
✔✔Which is not a word learning strategy? - ✔✔Copying unknown words from the
chalkboard.
✔✔In determining what types of words to teach, you should choose: - ✔✔Words that
are important in understanding a concept, words that students are likely to see again
and again, and words that have multiple meanings.
✔✔Children: - ✔✔Advance through stages in their spelling development, can be taught
the spelling rules and patterns to become better spellers, and must memorize some
spelling words which are irregular.
✔✔A student who writes u for you is in what stage of spelling development? -
✔✔Semiphonetic stage
✔✔Spelling instruction should include: - ✔✔Instruction on the alphabetic principle,
instruction on the patterns, found in words, and instruction of the meanings of words.
✔✔Which shows an invented approach to spelling? - ✔✔Spells the word is as iz.
✔✔Invented spelling: - ✔✔Is a sound-letter approach to spelling words.
✔✔Spelling instruction should: - ✔✔Follow a sequential order, build on a student's
current knowledge, and include time devoted to writing to apply what is being learned.
✔✔A teacher who asks her students to write a thank you note to the post office worker
they visited on a field trip is: - ✔✔Creating a purposeful reason to write, allowing her
, student's time to apply spelling patterns and rules taught, and collecting writing samples
to use to determine what stage of spelling each child is in.
✔✔What percent of words can be learned from knowing the basic spelling patterns and
rules? - ✔✔0.9
✔✔Excellent spelling instruction targets primarily: - ✔✔The application of letter-sound
relationships and patterns.
✔✔Which example is of a digraph? - ✔✔The letters sh in the word shrink.
✔✔A child who writes the letter L for the word hippopotamus is in which of Gentry's
stages of spelling development? - ✔✔Precommunicative stages
✔✔Spellers: - ✔✔Advance through stages in their spelling development.
✔✔Effective spelling instruction should include: - ✔✔Instruction on letter-sound
correspondence and sequence, instruction on pattern in words, and instruction on
groups of letters that aid in the meaning of the word.
✔✔Spelling variations for the same sound should be: - ✔✔Taught incrementally.
✔✔Spelling intervention should: - ✔✔Employ scaffolding techniques that support all
students, encourage students to memorize rules and principles, and encourage
students to rely on assistive technologies.
✔✔One way to ascertain students; progress in the area of spelling development is by
_____________________: - ✔✔Analyzing students' writing.
✔✔Early spelling skills are best taught when teachers build a bridge between what two
skills? - ✔✔Phonological/phonemic awareness and letter patterns.
✔✔Spelling instruction should include information on ________________. - ✔✔Letter-
sound association, spelling patterns, and word meanings.
✔✔Comprehension: - ✔✔Can be taught through a variety of strategies.
✔✔Comprehension is: - ✔✔The reason we read, active, and develop through
strategies.
✔✔Students who read words accurately but cannot comprehend: - ✔✔Are struggling
with language comprehension.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔An example of teaching semantic gradients is when ________________: -
✔✔Arranging words that describe the speed of movement from fastest to slowest.
✔✔Which is a strategy for teaching vocabulary? - ✔✔Teaching students about 'word
parts', teaching students about 'multiple meanings' for words, and teaching students to
use context clues.
✔✔Students' vocabulary can be increased by: - ✔✔Discussing new words before
reading a story, listening to a teacher explain the meaning of unknown words, and
teaching students to look for word parts such as prefixes, root words, etc.
✔✔Preschool age children have a __________________ vocabulary. - ✔✔Speaking
and listening.
✔✔Which is not a word learning strategy? - ✔✔Copying unknown words from the
chalkboard.
✔✔In determining what types of words to teach, you should choose: - ✔✔Words that
are important in understanding a concept, words that students are likely to see again
and again, and words that have multiple meanings.
✔✔Children: - ✔✔Advance through stages in their spelling development, can be taught
the spelling rules and patterns to become better spellers, and must memorize some
spelling words which are irregular.
✔✔A student who writes u for you is in what stage of spelling development? -
✔✔Semiphonetic stage
✔✔Spelling instruction should include: - ✔✔Instruction on the alphabetic principle,
instruction on the patterns, found in words, and instruction of the meanings of words.
✔✔Which shows an invented approach to spelling? - ✔✔Spells the word is as iz.
✔✔Invented spelling: - ✔✔Is a sound-letter approach to spelling words.
✔✔Spelling instruction should: - ✔✔Follow a sequential order, build on a student's
current knowledge, and include time devoted to writing to apply what is being learned.
✔✔A teacher who asks her students to write a thank you note to the post office worker
they visited on a field trip is: - ✔✔Creating a purposeful reason to write, allowing her
, student's time to apply spelling patterns and rules taught, and collecting writing samples
to use to determine what stage of spelling each child is in.
✔✔What percent of words can be learned from knowing the basic spelling patterns and
rules? - ✔✔0.9
✔✔Excellent spelling instruction targets primarily: - ✔✔The application of letter-sound
relationships and patterns.
✔✔Which example is of a digraph? - ✔✔The letters sh in the word shrink.
✔✔A child who writes the letter L for the word hippopotamus is in which of Gentry's
stages of spelling development? - ✔✔Precommunicative stages
✔✔Spellers: - ✔✔Advance through stages in their spelling development.
✔✔Effective spelling instruction should include: - ✔✔Instruction on letter-sound
correspondence and sequence, instruction on pattern in words, and instruction on
groups of letters that aid in the meaning of the word.
✔✔Spelling variations for the same sound should be: - ✔✔Taught incrementally.
✔✔Spelling intervention should: - ✔✔Employ scaffolding techniques that support all
students, encourage students to memorize rules and principles, and encourage
students to rely on assistive technologies.
✔✔One way to ascertain students; progress in the area of spelling development is by
_____________________: - ✔✔Analyzing students' writing.
✔✔Early spelling skills are best taught when teachers build a bridge between what two
skills? - ✔✔Phonological/phonemic awareness and letter patterns.
✔✔Spelling instruction should include information on ________________. - ✔✔Letter-
sound association, spelling patterns, and word meanings.
✔✔Comprehension: - ✔✔Can be taught through a variety of strategies.
✔✔Comprehension is: - ✔✔The reason we read, active, and develop through
strategies.
✔✔Students who read words accurately but cannot comprehend: - ✔✔Are struggling
with language comprehension.
