ALTA CALT EXAM STUDY GUIDE
2026/2027 ACCURATE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|| 100% GUARANTEED PASS RECENT
VERSION
1. Explicit instruction - ANSWER Direct, purposeful instruction.
2. Systematic and cumulative instruction - ANSWER Teaching with a logical
order of introduction of concepts that progress from easiest to more difficult.
3. Prescriptive teaching - ANSWER Individualized teaching based on needs.
4. Diagnostic teaching - ANSWER Teaching that is informed by a continual
assessment of student needs.
5. Direct instruction - ANSWER Instruction in which concepts are explicitly
taught.
6. Structured instruction - ANSWER Instruction that follows ordered
procedure.
7. Active listening - ANSWER Giving one's full attention to the speaker and
making eye contact with him or her.
,8. Acuity - ANSWER Keenness of thought or vision.
9. Cloze Procedure - ANSWER The use of semantic and syntactic clues to aid
in completing sentences.
10.Difficulty decoding, inaccurate word recognition, insufficient reading
fluency - ANSWER What are the three Primary reasons of poor reading?
11.Language Comprehension - ANSWER Reading - Language comprehension
subskills are like strands of a rope, but they converge; many skills are woven
into skilled reading.
12.Scarborough's Reading Rope - ANSWER Word Recognition.
13.Problems with age/grade equivalents - ANSWER Highly unreliable.
14.Recall item - ANSWER Requires the examinee to remember specific
information.
15.Example of recall item - ANSWER Parts of speech and sentence structure
belong in which language domain?: Syntax.
16.Application item - ANSWER Requires the examinee to make use of
knowledge.
,17.Example of application item - ANSWER Errors such as 'hav' for 'have' and
'hors' for 'horse' indicate a student would benefit from instruction in
orthographic patterns.
18.Instructional needs for misreading - ANSWER Identify the syllable type.
19.Consonant phonemes requiring lips - ANSWER /p/, /m/, and /f/.
20.Essential component for dyslexia evaluation - ANSWER Spelling.
21.Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - ANSWER Enacted in
1975 as PL 94-142, updated in 1990 and reauthorized in 2004; 'Specific
Learning Disability' is an identifiable category of disability with eight
academic domains.
22.Phonological processing component - ANSWER Naming.
23.Executive function subtype affecting decoding - ANSWER Working
memory.
24.Factors affecting reading comprehension - ANSWER Language
comprehension and decoding.
25.Steps for record requests from school district - ANSWER Receive written
consent from the adult student or from the parent or legal guardian of the
minor student.
26.Linguistics-based beginning reading approach - ANSWER Learning to
recognize word families (bat, cat, hat).
, 27.Syllable division instruction - ANSWER Synthetic and analytic instruction.
28.Characteristics of decodable text - ANSWER Controlled reading and
spelling vocabulary.
29.Importance of repeating information - ANSWER Essential to ensure
automaticity.
30.Research on phonological awareness - ANSWER Isabelle Liberman.
31.Scientifically based research - ANSWER Is replicated and longitudinal.
32.Specific Learning Disabilities - ANSWER 70-80% have deficit in reading
33.Rapid letter naming - ANSWER The key to automatic word recognition
34.Decoding and encoding - ANSWER Refers to applying the skills of analytic
and synthetic learning
35.Decoding - ANSWER Recognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound
correspondence and blending sounds into a word
36.Effective handwriting instruction - ANSWER Includes teaching the correct
pencil grip and formation of each letter
2026/2027 ACCURATE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|| 100% GUARANTEED PASS RECENT
VERSION
1. Explicit instruction - ANSWER Direct, purposeful instruction.
2. Systematic and cumulative instruction - ANSWER Teaching with a logical
order of introduction of concepts that progress from easiest to more difficult.
3. Prescriptive teaching - ANSWER Individualized teaching based on needs.
4. Diagnostic teaching - ANSWER Teaching that is informed by a continual
assessment of student needs.
5. Direct instruction - ANSWER Instruction in which concepts are explicitly
taught.
6. Structured instruction - ANSWER Instruction that follows ordered
procedure.
7. Active listening - ANSWER Giving one's full attention to the speaker and
making eye contact with him or her.
,8. Acuity - ANSWER Keenness of thought or vision.
9. Cloze Procedure - ANSWER The use of semantic and syntactic clues to aid
in completing sentences.
10.Difficulty decoding, inaccurate word recognition, insufficient reading
fluency - ANSWER What are the three Primary reasons of poor reading?
11.Language Comprehension - ANSWER Reading - Language comprehension
subskills are like strands of a rope, but they converge; many skills are woven
into skilled reading.
12.Scarborough's Reading Rope - ANSWER Word Recognition.
13.Problems with age/grade equivalents - ANSWER Highly unreliable.
14.Recall item - ANSWER Requires the examinee to remember specific
information.
15.Example of recall item - ANSWER Parts of speech and sentence structure
belong in which language domain?: Syntax.
16.Application item - ANSWER Requires the examinee to make use of
knowledge.
,17.Example of application item - ANSWER Errors such as 'hav' for 'have' and
'hors' for 'horse' indicate a student would benefit from instruction in
orthographic patterns.
18.Instructional needs for misreading - ANSWER Identify the syllable type.
19.Consonant phonemes requiring lips - ANSWER /p/, /m/, and /f/.
20.Essential component for dyslexia evaluation - ANSWER Spelling.
21.Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - ANSWER Enacted in
1975 as PL 94-142, updated in 1990 and reauthorized in 2004; 'Specific
Learning Disability' is an identifiable category of disability with eight
academic domains.
22.Phonological processing component - ANSWER Naming.
23.Executive function subtype affecting decoding - ANSWER Working
memory.
24.Factors affecting reading comprehension - ANSWER Language
comprehension and decoding.
25.Steps for record requests from school district - ANSWER Receive written
consent from the adult student or from the parent or legal guardian of the
minor student.
26.Linguistics-based beginning reading approach - ANSWER Learning to
recognize word families (bat, cat, hat).
, 27.Syllable division instruction - ANSWER Synthetic and analytic instruction.
28.Characteristics of decodable text - ANSWER Controlled reading and
spelling vocabulary.
29.Importance of repeating information - ANSWER Essential to ensure
automaticity.
30.Research on phonological awareness - ANSWER Isabelle Liberman.
31.Scientifically based research - ANSWER Is replicated and longitudinal.
32.Specific Learning Disabilities - ANSWER 70-80% have deficit in reading
33.Rapid letter naming - ANSWER The key to automatic word recognition
34.Decoding and encoding - ANSWER Refers to applying the skills of analytic
and synthetic learning
35.Decoding - ANSWER Recognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound
correspondence and blending sounds into a word
36.Effective handwriting instruction - ANSWER Includes teaching the correct
pencil grip and formation of each letter
