CALT FINAL EXAM COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS NEWEST UPDATE
◉role in fluency . Answer: mind is able to make the picture and
comprehend (mind's ear)
◉common signs of dyslexia . Answer: deficit in phonological
component of language, not fluent in word recognition, poor spelling,
decoding issues
◉6 syllable types . Answer: Closed, open, vowel-consonant-silent e,
vowel pair, R-controlled, and consonant-le.
◉syllable . Answer: part of word with 1 vowel sound
◉morpheme . Answer: smallest unit of language
◉blending sounds difficult for students . Answer: need to understand
sound symbol and other patterns
◉phonetics . Answer: study of speech sounds
,◉phonics . Answer: instructional method using written symbols
◉multisensory teaching . Answer: reinforces the discovery information
and builds association in memory
◉activities that improve fluency . Answer: word work, phrases, re-
reading, repeated reading
◉phonological memory . Answer: ability to immediately process and
recall sound based information
◉comprehensive approach to literacy . Answer: create meaning with
text, use visual representation, graphic organizers
◉alphabet . Answer: a-z
◉digraph . Answer: 2 letters that make 1 sound
◉diphthong . Answer: a blended vowel sound, like "oy" in "boy"
◉grapheme . Answer: group making one sound (igh)
,◉morphology . Answer: word formation
◉orthography . Answer: written symbol
◉phoneme . Answer: smallest unit of sound
◉phonology . Answer: science of speech sounds
◉phonological representation . Answer: how stored (long term)
◉phonological sensitivity . Answer: awareness of syllables/phonemes
◉final stable syllables . Answer: where accent falls in a word
◉How oral language plays a role in the development of a reader? .
Answer: receptive language, expressive language, phonological
awareness, rhymes, print, read aloud, learning centers, games
◉alphabetic principle . Answer: The concept that letters and letter
combinations represent individual phonemes in written words.
◉introduction of a spelling pattern . Answer: auditory discovery,
predication, visual discovery, and verbalization of the pattern
, ◉Good readers will... . Answer: decode and comprehend
◉decoding . Answer: instant word recognition, sound symbol, structural
analysis, context
◉comprehension . Answer: oral language, world knowledge, strategic
thinking, inference making
◉written expressive language . Answer: involves transcription and
translation
◉dyslexia . Answer: visual perception disorder, rare, can be inherited,
language based, persists across a lifetime.
◉what is dyslexia? . Answer: difficulty with reading 17% of population
and is neurobiological in origin, poor spellers, deficient in the
phonological component of language
◉myth of dyslexia . Answer: students read backwards
◉phonological processing . Answer: cognitive ability to
perceive/understand the processing of words
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS NEWEST UPDATE
◉role in fluency . Answer: mind is able to make the picture and
comprehend (mind's ear)
◉common signs of dyslexia . Answer: deficit in phonological
component of language, not fluent in word recognition, poor spelling,
decoding issues
◉6 syllable types . Answer: Closed, open, vowel-consonant-silent e,
vowel pair, R-controlled, and consonant-le.
◉syllable . Answer: part of word with 1 vowel sound
◉morpheme . Answer: smallest unit of language
◉blending sounds difficult for students . Answer: need to understand
sound symbol and other patterns
◉phonetics . Answer: study of speech sounds
,◉phonics . Answer: instructional method using written symbols
◉multisensory teaching . Answer: reinforces the discovery information
and builds association in memory
◉activities that improve fluency . Answer: word work, phrases, re-
reading, repeated reading
◉phonological memory . Answer: ability to immediately process and
recall sound based information
◉comprehensive approach to literacy . Answer: create meaning with
text, use visual representation, graphic organizers
◉alphabet . Answer: a-z
◉digraph . Answer: 2 letters that make 1 sound
◉diphthong . Answer: a blended vowel sound, like "oy" in "boy"
◉grapheme . Answer: group making one sound (igh)
,◉morphology . Answer: word formation
◉orthography . Answer: written symbol
◉phoneme . Answer: smallest unit of sound
◉phonology . Answer: science of speech sounds
◉phonological representation . Answer: how stored (long term)
◉phonological sensitivity . Answer: awareness of syllables/phonemes
◉final stable syllables . Answer: where accent falls in a word
◉How oral language plays a role in the development of a reader? .
Answer: receptive language, expressive language, phonological
awareness, rhymes, print, read aloud, learning centers, games
◉alphabetic principle . Answer: The concept that letters and letter
combinations represent individual phonemes in written words.
◉introduction of a spelling pattern . Answer: auditory discovery,
predication, visual discovery, and verbalization of the pattern
, ◉Good readers will... . Answer: decode and comprehend
◉decoding . Answer: instant word recognition, sound symbol, structural
analysis, context
◉comprehension . Answer: oral language, world knowledge, strategic
thinking, inference making
◉written expressive language . Answer: involves transcription and
translation
◉dyslexia . Answer: visual perception disorder, rare, can be inherited,
language based, persists across a lifetime.
◉what is dyslexia? . Answer: difficulty with reading 17% of population
and is neurobiological in origin, poor spellers, deficient in the
phonological component of language
◉myth of dyslexia . Answer: students read backwards
◉phonological processing . Answer: cognitive ability to
perceive/understand the processing of words
