KPEERI COMPREHENSIVE EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Handwriting and/or copying Accommodations for students with dyslexia - ✔✔=
Minimize copying.
= Provide a photocopy of the page.
= Accept briefest form of an answer.
= Appoint an official class notetaker.
= Accept illustrations or projects.
= Accept oral work as a substitute.
= Encourage the use of a word processor.
✔✔CERRI - ✔✔Dyslexia Exam
✔✔2 hours - ✔✔To complete exam of 100 multiple choice questions
✔✔Accommodations for Testing Situations - ✔✔= give tests orally
= allow the test to be taken in a different
environment
= give shorter and more frequent tests
✔✔Combining Forms - ✔✔An alternate name for roots primarily of Greek origin that
combine with other Greek roots to form words.
✔✔Pre-communication Stage of Spelling Development - ✔✔Spelling lacks:
=understanding of the concept of a word
=understanding of the alphabetic principle
-conventions of print
✔✔Semi-Phonetic Stage of Spelling Development - ✔✔=Spelling attempts are
connected to the level of
the syllable.
=Strong use of initial or salient consonants
= Left-to-right progression is present.
= Space between words if often missing.
✔✔Phonetic Stage of Spelling Development - ✔✔= Every sound of a word is
represented.
= Spelling lacks understanding of spelling
conventions.
= Odd but linguistically understandable spelling
choices may be observed.
= Heightened sense of letter patterns emerges.
, ✔✔Conventional Stage of Spelling Development - ✔✔= Words are spelled according to
the traditional
conventions of spelling.
✔✔Quick View of developing spellers - ✔✔1. Partial representation of word.(some, but
not all
sounds are represented)
2. Complete representation of word. (all sounds
are marked)
3. Complete representation and some
understanding of orthographic conventions.
✔✔Students with Partial representation of word need - ✔✔word at the phoneme level
✔✔Students with complete representation of word need - ✔✔to be taught spelling
patterns and rules
✔✔Students with Complete representation and orthographic conventions need - ✔✔to
increase student's awarenessof how words are spelled
✔✔ Defining Features of Effective Programs - ✔✔= a continuum of literacy instruction
= systems for managing student behavior
= screening system
= high quality teaching practices
= progress monitoring
= access to engaging, leveled reading materials
= culture of growth and achievement
= structures that support instruction
= high quality professional development
= instructional coaching
✔✔Dyslexia Symptoms - ✔✔Lack of phonological processing
-phonological awareness
-verbal short term memory
-articulation speed
✔✔RAN - ✔✔Rapid automatized naming: measures how quickly individuals can name
aloud
-objects
-pictures
-colors
-symbols (letters or digits)
✔✔Dyslexia learning disability is.. - ✔✔A language based learning disability. Where
children do not pick up the patterns of a language.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Handwriting and/or copying Accommodations for students with dyslexia - ✔✔=
Minimize copying.
= Provide a photocopy of the page.
= Accept briefest form of an answer.
= Appoint an official class notetaker.
= Accept illustrations or projects.
= Accept oral work as a substitute.
= Encourage the use of a word processor.
✔✔CERRI - ✔✔Dyslexia Exam
✔✔2 hours - ✔✔To complete exam of 100 multiple choice questions
✔✔Accommodations for Testing Situations - ✔✔= give tests orally
= allow the test to be taken in a different
environment
= give shorter and more frequent tests
✔✔Combining Forms - ✔✔An alternate name for roots primarily of Greek origin that
combine with other Greek roots to form words.
✔✔Pre-communication Stage of Spelling Development - ✔✔Spelling lacks:
=understanding of the concept of a word
=understanding of the alphabetic principle
-conventions of print
✔✔Semi-Phonetic Stage of Spelling Development - ✔✔=Spelling attempts are
connected to the level of
the syllable.
=Strong use of initial or salient consonants
= Left-to-right progression is present.
= Space between words if often missing.
✔✔Phonetic Stage of Spelling Development - ✔✔= Every sound of a word is
represented.
= Spelling lacks understanding of spelling
conventions.
= Odd but linguistically understandable spelling
choices may be observed.
= Heightened sense of letter patterns emerges.
, ✔✔Conventional Stage of Spelling Development - ✔✔= Words are spelled according to
the traditional
conventions of spelling.
✔✔Quick View of developing spellers - ✔✔1. Partial representation of word.(some, but
not all
sounds are represented)
2. Complete representation of word. (all sounds
are marked)
3. Complete representation and some
understanding of orthographic conventions.
✔✔Students with Partial representation of word need - ✔✔word at the phoneme level
✔✔Students with complete representation of word need - ✔✔to be taught spelling
patterns and rules
✔✔Students with Complete representation and orthographic conventions need - ✔✔to
increase student's awarenessof how words are spelled
✔✔ Defining Features of Effective Programs - ✔✔= a continuum of literacy instruction
= systems for managing student behavior
= screening system
= high quality teaching practices
= progress monitoring
= access to engaging, leveled reading materials
= culture of growth and achievement
= structures that support instruction
= high quality professional development
= instructional coaching
✔✔Dyslexia Symptoms - ✔✔Lack of phonological processing
-phonological awareness
-verbal short term memory
-articulation speed
✔✔RAN - ✔✔Rapid automatized naming: measures how quickly individuals can name
aloud
-objects
-pictures
-colors
-symbols (letters or digits)
✔✔Dyslexia learning disability is.. - ✔✔A language based learning disability. Where
children do not pick up the patterns of a language.
