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CALP test study terminology and guide
2 Biggest Predictors of Reading Success - answer✔✔P.A. & Letter Naming
Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon - answer✔✔3 Layers of English language
Latin
55% of English words - answer✔✔-Technical sophisticated words, used in more formal
contexts-literature and textbooks affixes added to roots audience, contradict, disruptive, retract,
survival, transfer
-Affix: construction, erupting, conductor
-Multisyllabic
-Schwa is prevalent;
-Few vowel digraphs
-R-controlled: port, form
-Vce: scribe, vene
Suffixes:-cial, -cious, -cient, -tial, -tious, -tient
Anglo-Saxon
20%-25% of English words - answer✔✔Short common every day, often 1-syllable words that
are familiar words, words used in ordinary life and often found in school primer books.
Compound Words! Many have non-phonetic spellings such as blood, cry, laugh, mother, run,
wash
-Closed: mad
-Open: go
-VCe: lame
-vowel team: boat
-Consonant -le: tumble
-R-controlled: barn
-Consonant pairs: gn, kn, wr
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-final stable syllables ble, zle, kle
4 characteristics of a letter - answer✔✔Name, Shape, Sound, Feel
How many syllables are in the word, "unpacked" - answer✔✔2
4 Components of a lesson plan activity - answer✔✔1. Emphasis
2. Preparation
3. Practice
4. Closure
6 Syllable types - answer✔✔1. Closed
2. Open
3. Vowel consonant e
4. Two adjacent vowels
5. Vowel r
6. Final Stable Syllable
Percentage of English words that have predictable spelling from regular rules. - answer✔✔For
about 84% of English words, spelling is completely predictable from regular rules.
History of English - answer✔✔-Norman Conquest (William the Conquerer) resulted in more
than 10,000 French words. Anglo-French compound words: gentlemen, faithful. Spelling based
on French such as the "our" in journey, ch pronounced as /sh/ and the que as /k/ in antique. The
conquest resulted in a decline of Old English. During Mature Middle English, Chaucer wrote
The Canterbury Tales in the late 1300s (Renaissance period) The Latin vocabulary conveyed
both abstract and humanistic ideas. Index, library, medicine, instant. Latin prefixes: ad-, pro-.
Suffixes:
-ent, -ion, -al. English is a polygot.
Our communication system in English started in 400AD.
Celts—Anglo=Saxon (first to put words on paper)—Vikings (Germanic language)—French
(Norman conquest)—Greek and Roman (Renaissance).
Anglo-Saxon (win)-French (succeed)—Latin (triumph).
ASAPE-Identifiers to determine reading/spelling situations - answer✔✔The key to unlocking the
reading code:
