CALT Exam Study Guide questions with correct answers

Rhyming One of the first phonological awareness skills to develop Blending & segmenting at syllable level Develops at 3-4 years Segmenting phonemes Develops at 4-5 years Isolating beginning sound in words, segmenting phonemes in CVC words Develops in kindergarten Segmenting words with consonant blends Develops in first grade Receptive oral language Listening Expressive oral language Speaking Receptive written language Reading Expressive written language Writing __ letters representing __ phonemes 26, 44 5 vowel letters, __ vowel sounds 15 Long vowels Tense Vowels. (Beet, bait, boat, boot, bite, boy, bout) (a, e, i, o, u, oy, ou, oo) Short vowels Lax vowels - pat, pet, pit, pot, put, putt (a, e, i ,o, u, oo) Fricatives produced by a constant flow of air through the vocal tract (f and v) Affricates ch/j Glides W, y Liquids l, r Alphabetic principle an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language Six syllable types closed, open, VCe, C+le, R controlled, vowel pairs Semantics Language content— meaning of words and the relationship between and among words Pragmatics Language use— reasons, codes/styles, conversation rules Phonology the study of speech sounds in language