KPEERI Exam 2023 With Questions and Answers
phonology - Answer speech sound system of a language, how the sounds can be
produced, sequenced, and combined to make words
morphology - Answer smallest unit of meaning in a language, how the units
combine to change meaning, prefixes, suffixes, base elements
morpheme - Answer smallest unit of meaning
phoneme - Answer smallest unit of sound
semantics - Answer meanings of words, phrases, and sentences, and their
relationship in a language, expressions and figurative language
syntax - Answer rules for organizing words, phrases, and clauses to form
sentences in a language, parts of speech, sentence types
pragmatics - Answer rules for how language is used appropriately in different
social contexts, linguistic and nonlinguistic, discourse
orthography - Answer written or spelling system of a language
What provides the foundation for working with written language (reading and
writing)? - Answer Oral language
Oral language is - Answer inherent.
Literacy, the ability to read and write, is - Answer not inherent and must be
learned.
expressive language - Answer our ability to put thoughts and feelings into words
and sentences
receptive language - Answer our ability to understand information in spoken or
written form
Orthography deals with - Answer word recognition (alphabetic principal,
decoding, spelling patterns, syllable patterns).
Phonology deals with - Answer word recognition (phonological awareness,
decoding, and spelling).
Morphology deals with - Answer reading comprehension (vocabulary, word
recognition, phonological awareness, decoding, and spelling).
,Semantics deals with - Answer reading comprehension (vocabulary and
figurative language).
Syntax deals with - Answer reading comprehension and written expression
(sentence comprehension and sentence composition).
Pragmatics deals with - Answer reading comprehension and written expression
(audience participation, use of dialogue, cohesive texts, etc.).
Simple view of reading - Answer word recognition X language comprehension =
reading comprehension
Language comprehension (deriving meaning from oral/written language)
includes - Answer background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures
(syntax/semantics), verbal reasoning (making inferences, predicting, figurative
language), and literacy knowledge (text structure/genres).
Word recognition (decoding) includes - Answer phonological awareness,
decoding, and sight recognition.
Inferior frontal gyrus controls - Answer speech-sound awareness, phonological
processor, and expressive language.
Parieto temporal lobe controls - Answer receptive language, context and
meaning processor, word analysis.
Occipito temporal lobe controls - Answer letter recognition, orthographic
processor, words recognized by sight. Known as the brain's letterbox.
dyslexia - Answer A specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is
a deficit in the phonological component of language and is characterized by poor
spelling and decoding abilities.
What are some secondary consequences of dyslexia? - Answer problems in
reading comprehension
reduced reading experience (impedes vocabulary and background knowledge)
Part of the brain that allows you to sound out words - Answer parieto temporal
lobe
Part of the brain that recognizes words by sight - Answer occipito temporal lobe
Part of the brain that thinks about how to pronounce words - Answer inferior
frontal gyrus
People with dyslexia - Answer have little to no neuronal activation in posterior
, reading systems and rely only on the inferior frontal gyrus (which causes an
overactivation and disruption in gyrus).
What percentage of the world's population have at least some symptoms of
dyslexia? - Answer 15-20%
What is an essential prerequisite to understanding that the sequences of
individual spoken sounds are represented by sequences of printed letters on a
page? - Answer phonological awareness
language comprehension - Answer the ability to simultaneously integrate and
organize information from various language systems into a single meaningful
representation
True or False: Typical reading comprehension strategy instruction (questioning,
visualizing, summarizing, etc.) cannot replace a lack of language
comprehension. - Answer True
True or False: Everyone with dyslexia qualifies for special education services. -
Answer False
What we teach - Answer phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, &
comprehension
How we teach - Answer explicit instruction, systematic & cumulative curriculum,
differentiated instruction, opportunities for practice & feedback, and effective
instructional strategies
Corrective feedback... - Answer provides opportunities for teacher responses
during and following the execution of tasks that account for an individual
student's level of mastery.
Cumulative instruction... - Answer builds on and regularly reviews what a
student already knows.
Diagnostic-Prescriptive instruction... - Answer uses an understanding of the
individual needs of students to adapt instructional strategies. Information from
initial and ongoing assessment of students' needs as well as their understanding,
and application of skills taught are used to develop a teaching plan based on
careful and continuous assessment; lessons paced on students' understanding
and demonstration of understanding.
Differentiated instruction... - Answer addresses the range of students' needs by
using different materials, activities, technology, group size, and other
accommodations and modifications.