CALT Exam Prep Questions With
Current Answers(updated)
phonetics - Answer-the study of speech sounds in spoken language
/.phonological awareness - Answer-the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
/.phonemic awareness - Answer-awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in spoken
words
/.phonics - Answer-instruction that connects sounds and letters
/.synthetic phonics - Answer-explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
/.alphabetic principle - Answer-the understanding that spoken sounds are represented
in print by written letters
/.phonology - Answer-the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language
/.prosody - Answer-the rhythmic flow of oral reading
/.pragmatics - Answer-set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
/.syntax - Answer-sentence structure, grammar, usage
/.semantics - Answer-content of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
/.spelling - Answer-sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
/.orthography - Answer-the spelling of written language
/.orthographic memory - Answer-memory of letter patterns and word spellings
/.metalinguistics - Answer-awareness of language as an entity
/.Heuristic - Answer-means to discover by demonstration
/.reading - Answer-symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
,/.morpheme - 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 - Answer-the study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that make
words
/.fricative - Answer-a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening between
the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
/.nasal sound - Answer-a sound produced by forcing air out through th nose / n / / m /
/.continuant sound - Answer-a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f /
/.stop consonant sound - Answer-a sound obstructed / they must be clipped off / b / / d /
/.aspiration - Answer-puff of air
/.Words with gh: laugh, cough, right, high - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with ck: pick, duck, sack - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with k: king, kiss, kilt, hook - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with kn or gn in initial position: knee, knife, gnat, gnash - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with tw: twin, twilight, between - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with wr: write, wring, wrist - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Short words with ch pronounced /ch/ chest, cheap - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.One-syllable words with tch: witch, hatch, match - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.One-syllable words with dge: edge, ridge, hedge - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Short words with th: this, these, bath - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with wh: why, while, when - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with double consonants: better, ladder, carrot - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with ow: plow, snow, brow, blow - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Short words with silent letters: walk, should, thumb, listen - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
, /.Wild Old Words: mind, most, kind - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Most pronouns: he, she, us - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Most F. S. S. words handle, thimble, twinkle - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with hard g before e and i: gift, giddy, girl, begin - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Words with ng - Answer-Anglo-Saxon
/.Long words, three or more syllables: marvelous, fascinate - Answer-Latin
/.Words with ct: act, direct, conduct - Answer-Latin
/.Words with pt: apt, erupt, attempt - Answer-Latin
/.Words with ti pronounced /sh/ partial, nation - Answer-Latin
/.Words with ci pronounced /sh/ special, precious - Answer-Latin
/.Words with sion: erosion, collision - Answer-Latin
/.Words with ssion: passion, expression - Answer-Latin
/.Words with double consonants near the beginning illegal, attract, occupy - Answer-
Latin
/.Words with t pronounced /ch/: nature, punctual - Answer-Latin
/.Words with d pronounced /j/ educate, graduate - Answer-Latin
/.Words with silent initial h: hour, herb, honor - Answer-Latin
/.Words with ular: regular, popular - Answer-Latin
/.Words with j: joint, journal - Answer-Latin
/.Words that are legal terms: justice, legal, judge - Answer-Latin
/.Words with the soft c before e and i: cent, census, city - Answer-Latin
/.Words with sc pronounced /s/: science, irascible, scissors - Answer-Latin
/.Medical , technical and scientific words - Answer-Greek
