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KPEERI Exam Q&A: Phonetics, Phonological Awareness, and Reading Skills, Exams of English Literature

Chamberlain College of NursingEnglish Literature

A comprehensive set of questions and answers related to phonetics, phonological awareness, and reading skills. It covers topics such as the origin of phonemes, graphemes, the difference between phonological awareness and phonics, key components of oral language, stop sounds, allophones, nasals, fricatives, skilled reading, domains of reading, phases of reading, and various rules and strategies for teaching comprehension. It also addresses common spelling errors and cognitive behaviors affecting reading and writing, making it a valuable resource for students and educators in the field of literacy.

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KPEERI EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
1. Origin of the word phoneme - correct answer - Comes from the Greek
word Sonos meaning sound or voice
2. Phonemes - correct answer - The smallest unit of sound in the spoken
language (oral and letters)
3. Grapheme - correct answer - Written letter
4. What is the difference between phonological awareness and phonics? -
correct answer - Phonemic awareness is an oral
skill that is independent of print. Phonics is the ability to recognize letter
sound correspondence at words. Phonics is both visual and oral. You
can have phonological awareness without having phonics, but you
cannot have phonics without phonological awareness.
5. Five key components of oral language - correct answer - On a logical
skills, pragmatics, syntax, more philogical skills, vocabulary. These are
necessary skills to communicate and learn through conversation and the
spoken interaction.
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KPEERI EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

  1. Origin of the word phoneme - correct answer - Comes from the Greek word Sonos meaning sound or voice
  2. Phonemes - correct answer - The smallest unit of sound in the spoken language (oral and letters)
  3. Grapheme - correct answer - Written letter
  4. What is the difference between phonological awareness and phonics? - correct answer - Phonemic awareness is an oral skill that is independent of print. Phonics is the ability to recognize letter sound correspondence at words. Phonics is both visual and oral. You can have phonological awareness without having phonics, but you cannot have phonics without phonological awareness.
  5. Five key components of oral language - correct answer - On a logical skills, pragmatics, syntax, more philogical skills, vocabulary. These are necessary skills to communicate and learn through conversation and the spoken interaction.
  1. Stop sounds - correct answer - These are sounds were the airstream is stopped briefly P b t d k g
  2. Allophones - correct answer - VOiced and unvoiced sounds. Slight variations to the pronunciation of phonemes due to the coarticulation ex. /p/ /b/
  3. Nasals - correct answer - Sounds that resonate in the nasal cavity. The air gets pushed through your nose. If you hold your nose while you make the sound he will be able to do it
  4. Velar Nasal - correct answer - /ng/ one sound. Hard g not pronounced
  5. Fricative - correct answer - These are sounds narrow in shape the airstream but do not stop it. Air seeps out between articulators. They are continuant. /s/ z sh zh f v th h
  6. /h/ - correct answer - On voice and does not have a sister sound. This sound is The only continent that does not use an articulator for the production of the sound. It is a glottal fricative. It meets the definition of a glide but it's vocalize as a fricative
  1. Consolidated alphabetic phase - correct answer - Students consolidate their knowledge of grapheme-phoneme blends into larger units that recur in different words.. Example when children use skills to decode unknown multi-syllabic words
  2. What formula predicts reading comprehension? - correct answer - Learning to Decode ( word recognition) and
  3. Language comprehension (listening comprehension)
  4. Doubling Rule - correct answer - When adding an ending to a closed syllable base word, if the closed syllable ends in just one consonant, double it. Otherwise, just add the ending. sit/sitting land/landing
  5. executive functioning - correct answer - the cognitive abilities and processes that allow humans to plan or inhibit their actions
  6. Working memory - correct answer - the memory we use to hold and manipulate information.
  7. A way to develop morphemic knowledge... - correct answer - teach the concept of "word relatives" and to think of related words when trying to spell an unfamiliar word (e.g., for colonist, think of colony or colonial).
  1. Intended word: except (as in "except for ..."). Child's spelling: accept ("accept for .."). - correct answer - semantically-based confusion between two different words, accept and except, that sound similar but have different meanings and spellings.
  2. Intended word: two (as in "two cats"). Child's spelling: too ("too cats").
    • correct answer - This is a semantically-based error, a confusion of when to use the spelling two (a number) vs. too (meaning "also").
  3. Intended word: psychic; child's spelling: pyskic. - correct answer - This is another morphemic error that reflects confusion about the correct spelling of the morpheme psych.
  4. Intended word: slapped; child's spelling: slapt. - correct answer - This is a morphemic error. Although the word sounds like it ends with /t/, the child must recognize that - ed is used to spell past tense.
  5. Intended word: stuff; child's spelling: stuf. - correct answer - This error reflects lack of knowledge of a spelling generalization, the "floss" rule, that the f at the end of this word needs to be doubled.
  6. Intended word: sliding; child's spelling: slideing. - correct answer - This is another error related to a spelling generalization, that when adding - ing to a silent e base word, the e should be dropped.
  1. Cat kite rule - correct answer - Use the letter k, not c, to spell the sound /k/ before the letters e, i, or y.
  2. What Is Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping? - correct answer - is a visual activity that allows students to separate letters into the sounds they make
  3. What is phoneme manipulation? - correct answer - a layer of phonemic awareness this is the most closely related to reading connected text
  4. Phonological awareness skills from simplest to most complex - correct answer - Word (in sentence)
  5. Syllable
  6. Onset-rime
  7. Phonemic Awareness
  8. Counting words in a sentence is what type of skill - correct answer - Language skill (not phonological awareness)
  9. Cognition and Behaviors that effect reading and writing - correct answer - • attention
  • executive function
  • memory
  • processing speed
  • graphomotor control
  1. Do reading difficulties affect executive functions and emotional abilities in children? - correct answer - Children with reading difficulties showed significantly lower executive functions and emotional abilities compared to typical readers. Decreased reading ability was related to decreased executive functions and emotional abilities.
  2. Word recognition strand (lower strand) - correct answer - PA, decoding, sight word recognition work together to make the reader more fluent
  3. 7 Strategies for teaching comprehension - correct answer - Monitor comprehension:
  4. Metacognition
  5. Graphic and Semantic Organizers
  6. Answering Questions
  7. Generating Questions
  8. Recognizing Story Structure
  9. Summarizing
  10. Reciprocal Teaching - correct answer - Helps students actively bring meaning to the written word with or without the teacher
  1. 7 .Lesson engagement during teacher-led instruction is monitored
    1. Lesson engagement during independent work is monitor
    1. Students successfully complete activities at a high criterion level of performance l
  4. Rule for - ck, - tch, - dge - correct answer - If a closed syllable ends in the sound /k/, /ch/, or /j/ immediately after the short vowel sound, then use - ck to spell /k/, - tch to spell /ch/, and - dge to spell /j/
  5. Dysgraphia - correct answer - difficulty in written expression
  6. Dyscalculia - correct answer - difficulty with math
  7. Executive functioning - correct answer - The ability to set priorities or make decisions.
  8. Dyspraxia - correct answer - difficulty with motor learning and coordination th
  9. Phonological - correct answer - Speech sounds
  1. Orthographic - correct answer - Writing/spelling written language
  2. Semantics - correct answer - Vocabulary
  3. discourse organization - correct answer - Organization of words through speech (connected level text)
  4. Six stages of reading development - correct answer - Stage 0- pre reading
  5. Stage 1 Initial reading or decoding
  6. Stage 2: confirmation fluency and Ungluing from print
  7. Stage 3: learning the new
  8. Stage 4: Multiple viewpoints
  9. Stage 5: Construction and reconstruction
  10. Syntax - correct answer - Sentences/grammar
  11. Dyslexia - correct answer - Lifelong learning disability characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition, poor spelling and decoding abilities. How the brain processes language
  12. Dyslexia Secondary characteristics - correct answer - Reduced comprehension
  1. 4 part processing system to support reading fluency - correct answer
- Perception and production of
  1. Oral language
  2. Phonological working memory
  3. Rapid automatic naming
  4. Phonological awareness
  5. Consonant - correct answer - A speech sound air stream is partially obstructed
  6. Vowel - correct answer - Airstream not obstructed. Articulators hold shape but don't touch
  7. Articulators - correct answer - Toungue
  8. Teeth
  9. Lips
  10. Alveolar ridge
  11. Coarticulate - correct answer - We do not isolate sounds. The sounds flow together to produce a word or syllable
  12. Lexicons - correct answer - Mental dictionary (long term memory)
  1. what is the strongest predictor of problems with early reading development? - correct answer - Phonological Awareness
  2. Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) - correct answer - Students ability to quickly name a series of letters, colors, or objects. It can predict early reading development problems
  3. Phonological awareness - correct answer - is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentences and words. Examples include being able to identify words that rhyme, recognizing alliteration, segmenting a sentence into words,
  4. Phonemic awareness - correct answer -. is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. This includes blending sounds into words, segmenting words into sounds, and deleting and playing with the sounds in spoken words. The most sophisticated of phonological awareness
  5. Alphabetic principle - correct answer - Letters have names and sounds that form words. Phonological awareness helps children understand this
  1. What percentage of children require explicit instruction to learn to read? - correct answer - 15%
  2. Explicit Instruction - correct answer - systematic instruction of concepts, strategies, and skills that builds from simple to complex.
  3. What percentage of children require code based explicit systematic and sequential instruction to learn to read? - correct answer - 40 - 50%
  4. What percentage of children learn to read relatively easy with brought instruction? - correct answer - 30%
  5. Partial Alphabetic Phase - correct answer - Students recognize some letters and can use them to remember words by sight. Example is when children spelled her name of words like mom with one letter and can tell a story with the letter parts.
  6. Direct Instruction - correct answer - It is explicit, systematic, and teacher directed
  7. Principles of direct instruction - correct answer - Explain, model, lead, guided practice, assess, and review
  1. Oral language five key components - correct answer - PA, pragmatics, syntax, morephological skills, vocabulary also known as semantics
  2. Phonological Awareness skill simplest to most complex - correct answer - word
  3. Synthetic Phonics - correct answer - In this systematic and explicit approach, students learn to transform letters and letter combinations into sounds and then the sounds together to form recognizable words.. works best for dyslexia.
  4. unvoiced phoneme - correct answer - phonemes made without vibrations of vocal cords b p
  5. visual memory - correct answer - mental representations of stimuli as pictures. Reading- graphemes words phrases sentences.
  6. Short term visual memory - correct answer - Dyslexics have difficulty with this
  1. Dyslexia myths - correct answer - People With dyslexia see things backwards. Dyslexia is rare. Children with dyslexia will outgrow it
  2. Recognizing dyslexia in preschool - correct answer - May talk later than most children. Difficulty rhyming.
  3. Difficulty pronouncing words.
  4. Poor auditory memory for nursery rhymes and chance.
  5. Slow to add new vocabulary. Unable to recall the right words. Trouble learning Numbers days of the week colors shapes and how to spell their name.
  6. Recognizing dyslexia early elementary - correct answer - Fails to understand that words come apart.
  7. Difficulty learning letter names and corresponding sounds.
  8. Difficulty decoding single words. Difficulty spelling phonetically. Reading is choppy and labored. Relies on context to recognize words
  9. Recognizing dyslexia fourth to high school - correct answer - History of reading and spelling difficulties.
  10. Avoids reading allowed.
  11. Reads most material slowly is not fluent.
  12. A voice reading for pleasure.
  13. May have an adequate vocabulary. Hs difficulty spelling.
  14. Strengths of a dyslexic- decoding is the weakness - correct answer - Comprehension
  15. general knowledge
  1. problem-solving
  2. vocabulary
  3. critical thinking
  4. reasoning
  5. concept formation
  6. How many phonemes in the English language? - correct answer - about 44 sounds and sound units
  7. How many different ways can these phonemes be spelled? - correct answer - 250 different ways /k/ c k ck ch que
  8. consonant - correct answer - A speech sound where the airstream is partially obstructed by an articulator
  9. vowel - correct answer - A speech sound in which the airstream is not obstructed. The articulator holds the shape but does not touch
  10. Domains of Language Processing - correct answer - phonological speech sound
    • orthographic print
    • semantic meaning
    • syntactic sentence level
    • discourse connected text level