CALT EXAM 2023/2024

CALT EXAM Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - ANSWER phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension The Big Five - ANSWER Nickname for the five essential components of effective literacy instruction National Reading Panel - ANSWER outlined the give essential components of effective literacy instruction in report (year 2000) What is the importance of the sound/symbol system? - ANSWER understanding sounds/symbols enables students to sound out unfamiliar words, enables students to build orthographic patterns, enables students to perceive larger chunks of words, and enables students to use the context more efficiently Sound/symbol foundation - ANSWER phonemic awareness and instant letter recognition Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER a phoneme is represented by a grapheme phoneme - ANSWER smallest unit of sound in a word which effects meaning grapheme - ANSWER letter or group of letters used to represent one sound