2024 CALT EXAM PREP
COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Strephosymbolia - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>means twisted symbols. The first term
Orton used for dyslexia.
phonetics - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>the study of speech sounds in spoken
language
phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>the ability to focus on units of
sound in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>awareness of speech sounds or
phonemes in spoken words
phonics - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>instruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>explicitly teaches individual
grapheme-phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables
or whole words
alphabetic principle - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>the understanding that spoken
sounds are represented in print by written letters
consonant - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a
class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech
sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>the rules that determine how sounds are
used in spoken language
fluency - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>reading with rapidity and automaticity with
prosody
prosody - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>set of rules that dictate communicative
behavior and use of language, rules we communicate by
syntax - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>sentence structure, grammar, usage
,semantics - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>content of language, used to express
knowledge of the world around us - meaning
phoneme - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme,
connect grapheme to phoneme
orthography - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>the spelling of written language
orthographic memory - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>memory of letter patterns and
word spellings
metalinguistics - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>a method of leading students to new
learning through questioning
Heuristic - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>means to discover by demonstration
grapheme - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>a letter or letter cluster that represents a
single speech sound
decoding - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>word recognition in which the phonetic code
is broken down to determine a word
blending - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>fusing individual sounds, syllables or words
into meaningful units
reading - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>the smallest meaningful unit of language - a
suffix, prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat,
man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability greatly
depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>the study of word formation patterns,
meaningful units that make words
fricative - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>a sound produced by forcing air through a
narrow opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>a sound produced by forcing air out
through th nose / n / / m /
, continuant sound - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>a sound prolonged in its production /
m//s//f/
stop consonant sound - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>a sound obstructed / they must be
clipped off / b / / d /
aspiration - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>puff of air
Norman Invasion - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1066 A.D., had a great effect on
English language, William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought
words like furniture, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who added
w and u, also the dot for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet complete at 26 letters
Number words one to a thousand - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-
Saxon
Outer body parts - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
Words with gh: laugh, cough, right, high - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
Words with ck: pick, duck, sack - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
Words with k: king, kiss, kilt, hook - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
Words with kn or gn in initial position: knee, knife, gnat, gnash - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
Words with tw: twin, twilight, between - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
Words with wr: write, wring, wrist - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-Saxon
Short words with ch pronounced /ch/ chest, cheap - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-
Saxon
One-syllable words with tch: witch, hatch, match - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Anglo-
Saxon
