KPEERI Exam Prep #3
Regular Words - Answer Spelled how they sound.
Phonetics - Answer Study of the characteristics of speech sounds in language
Metacognition - Answer Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes
Irregular Words - Answer Must be memorized, because they are spelled in unexpected
ways. (sight words)
Rule Words - Answer Spelled the way they sound, but a letter might need to be doubled,
dropped or changed.
Etomology - Answer The study of the origin of words and the way in which their
meanings have changed throughout history.
Précis - Answer Students own words of an author's message.(summary)
Phonology - Answer System of rules and patterns that determine how sounds operate
and how they are used in spoken language.
Mnemonic strategies - Answer Strategies to improve memory of pattern of letters, ideas.
Examples are:
-Key words
-Chunking
-Rhyming
-Visualizing
Word Awareness - Answer Ability to determine how many words are in a spoken or
written sentence.
Phonemic Awareness - Answer Awareness of phonemes in spoken words
-Identifying sounds in words
-Segmenting (analytic)
-Blending (synthetic)
-Changing sound in words
, -Omitting sounds in words
Executive Function - Answer Responsible for:
-Paying Attention
-Organizing and planning
-Task management
-Regulating emotions
-Self-monitoring
Syllable - Answer Speech unit
May or may not carry meaning
Working Memory - Answer Capacity to hold information for short periods of time while
manipulating it. (crucial to executive function)
Chall's 5 stages of reading - Answer 0. Pre-reading
1. Initial reading and decoding
2. confirmation/fluency
3. Reading for new learning
4. Reading multiple viewpoints
5. Construction and reconstruction
Morpheme - Answer Smallest unit that carries meaning like; prefixes, suffixes, base or
root words. May be a syllable, multiple syllables or part of a syllable..
Root - Answer A unit of meaning
Reading Development Stage 0 - Answer Pre-reading
-birth to Age 6
-developing oral language
-beginning to recognize letters
-recognizing that language is present in books
Affix - Answer -suffix: added to the end of a base word
-prefix: added to the beginning of a base word
Reading Development Stage 1 - Answer Initial Reading and Decoding
Regular Words - Answer Spelled how they sound.
Phonetics - Answer Study of the characteristics of speech sounds in language
Metacognition - Answer Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes
Irregular Words - Answer Must be memorized, because they are spelled in unexpected
ways. (sight words)
Rule Words - Answer Spelled the way they sound, but a letter might need to be doubled,
dropped or changed.
Etomology - Answer The study of the origin of words and the way in which their
meanings have changed throughout history.
Précis - Answer Students own words of an author's message.(summary)
Phonology - Answer System of rules and patterns that determine how sounds operate
and how they are used in spoken language.
Mnemonic strategies - Answer Strategies to improve memory of pattern of letters, ideas.
Examples are:
-Key words
-Chunking
-Rhyming
-Visualizing
Word Awareness - Answer Ability to determine how many words are in a spoken or
written sentence.
Phonemic Awareness - Answer Awareness of phonemes in spoken words
-Identifying sounds in words
-Segmenting (analytic)
-Blending (synthetic)
-Changing sound in words
, -Omitting sounds in words
Executive Function - Answer Responsible for:
-Paying Attention
-Organizing and planning
-Task management
-Regulating emotions
-Self-monitoring
Syllable - Answer Speech unit
May or may not carry meaning
Working Memory - Answer Capacity to hold information for short periods of time while
manipulating it. (crucial to executive function)
Chall's 5 stages of reading - Answer 0. Pre-reading
1. Initial reading and decoding
2. confirmation/fluency
3. Reading for new learning
4. Reading multiple viewpoints
5. Construction and reconstruction
Morpheme - Answer Smallest unit that carries meaning like; prefixes, suffixes, base or
root words. May be a syllable, multiple syllables or part of a syllable..
Root - Answer A unit of meaning
Reading Development Stage 0 - Answer Pre-reading
-birth to Age 6
-developing oral language
-beginning to recognize letters
-recognizing that language is present in books
Affix - Answer -suffix: added to the end of a base word
-prefix: added to the beginning of a base word
Reading Development Stage 1 - Answer Initial Reading and Decoding
