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CALP test study terminology and guide
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2 Biggest Predictors of Reading Success - Answer✔✔-P.A. & Letter Naming
Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon - Answer✔✔-3 Layers of English language
Greek
11% of English words - Answer✔✔-Specialized words used mostly in science, combining forms
compounded atmosphere, thermometer, chromosomes, microscope, physiology
-Closed: graph, gram
-Open: photo, micro
-ph for /f/
-ch for /k/
-y for /short i/
-pn, pt
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
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-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
-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
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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.
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