CALT EXAM Questions and Answers
Updated 2026/2027 Version | Verified
Answers
1. Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - ANSWER ✅ phonological
and phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
2. The Big Five - ANSWER ✅ Nickname for the five essential components of
effective literacy instruction
3. National Reading Panel - ANSWER ✅ outlined the give essential
components of effective literacy instruction in report (year 2000)
4. An individual with dyslexia might experience delays in social development
as demonstrated by - ANSWER ✅ a lack of good judgment, the inability to
stick with a game, and erratic emotional behavior
5. Grade equivalent scores - ANSWER ✅ are not a dependable representation
of progress
6. The Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Education Battery is - ANSWER ✅ an
academic achievement and norm-referenced test
7. Example of synthetic and analytic instruction - ANSWER ✅ To teach
syllable division, Mr. Smart first taught his students to recognize closed
(VC) syllables. He then showed the class words such as napkin, impact, and
, masco and discussed accent. Later, he demonstrated how the words could be
divided into two syllables. Finally, he gave the students syllables and asked
them to construct words.
8. Linguistics based reading approach - ANSWER ✅ Learning to recognize
word families, e.g. the "at" family (bat, hat, cat, etc,)
9. Research by NICHD indicates that of the students with specific learning
disabilities receiving special education services - ANSWER ✅ 70-80% have
deficit in reading
10.According to the National Reading Panel Report (2000), which of the
following represents the strongest indication of a reading disability? -
ANSWER ✅ a deficit in phonology
11.A person who has, has a history of having, or is regarding as having an
impairment that significantly limits one or more of life's major functions [42
U.S.C - 12102 (2)] is entitled to benefits under - ANSWER ✅ both Section
504 and IDEA
12.An appropriate education for a student with a disability under the Section
504 regulations could consist of - ANSWER ✅ education in regular
classrooms, education in regular classes with supplementary services, and
special education and related services
13.According to IMSLEC and ALTA Code of Ethics, as an MSL
teacher/therapist you should - ANSWER ✅ provide reasonable expectations
of student outcomes to students and parents
,14.Your private student has reached all of the benchmarks you have
administered throughout the curriculum. His parents want you to
recommend placement for the coming school year. You should*** -
ANSWER ✅ give parents documentation of the services he has received
from you and discuss gradual transition into the classroom
15.Use of first person pronouns - ANSWER ✅ are inappropriate in a
professional report
16.Chall's Stage 1 of Reading Development - ANSWER ✅ Initial Reading &
Decoding - 6-7 years old, 1st grade/beginning 2nd grade, child learns
relation between letters and sounds and between printed and spoken words;
child is able to read simple text containing high frequency and phonetically
regular words, uses skill and insight to sound out new one syllable words
17.Chall's Stage 2 of Reading Development - ANSWER ✅ Confirmation and
Fluency - 7-8 years old, 2nd-3rd grade; child reads simple familiar stories
and selections with increasing fluency, which is done by consolidating the
basic decoding elements, sight vocabulary, and meaning context in the
reading of familiar stories and selections.
18.Chall's Stage 3 of Reading Development - ANSWER ✅ Reading for
learning the new - two phases A/B, phase A is intermediate 4th-6th grade,
phase B is jr high school 7th-9th grade; reading is used to learn new ideas, to
gain new knowledge, to experience new feelings, to learn new attitudes,
generally from one viewpoint.
19.Chall's stage 4 of reading development - ANSWER ✅ Multiple viewpoints -
15-17 years old, 10th-12th grade; reading widely from a broad range of
complex materials, both expository and narrative, with a variety of
viewpoints
, 20.Chall's stage 5 of reading development - ANSWER ✅ Construction and
reconstruction - 18+ years old, college and beyond; reading is used for one's
own needs and purposes (professional and personal), reading serves to
integrate one's knowledge with that of others, to synthesize it and create new
knowledge; it is rapid and efficient
21.dyslexia - ANSWER ✅ a specific learning disability that is neurological in
origin, which is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent
word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These
difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of
language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and
the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences
may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading
experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background
knowledge
22.dysgraphia - ANSWER ✅ extremely poor handwriting or the inability to
perform the motor movements required for handwriting. The condition is
associated with neurological dysfunction
23.dyspraxia - ANSWER ✅ sensorimotor disruption in which the motor signals
to the muscles, such as those necessary for speech production, are not
consistently or efficiently received
24.dysarthria - ANSWER ✅ neurological oral-motor dysfunction including
weaknesses of the musculature necessary for making the coordinated
movements of speech production
25.accommodation - ANSWER ✅ changes within the general classroom to
enable students to keep up with the education program, such as intensive
Updated 2026/2027 Version | Verified
Answers
1. Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - ANSWER ✅ phonological
and phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
2. The Big Five - ANSWER ✅ Nickname for the five essential components of
effective literacy instruction
3. National Reading Panel - ANSWER ✅ outlined the give essential
components of effective literacy instruction in report (year 2000)
4. An individual with dyslexia might experience delays in social development
as demonstrated by - ANSWER ✅ a lack of good judgment, the inability to
stick with a game, and erratic emotional behavior
5. Grade equivalent scores - ANSWER ✅ are not a dependable representation
of progress
6. The Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Education Battery is - ANSWER ✅ an
academic achievement and norm-referenced test
7. Example of synthetic and analytic instruction - ANSWER ✅ To teach
syllable division, Mr. Smart first taught his students to recognize closed
(VC) syllables. He then showed the class words such as napkin, impact, and
, masco and discussed accent. Later, he demonstrated how the words could be
divided into two syllables. Finally, he gave the students syllables and asked
them to construct words.
8. Linguistics based reading approach - ANSWER ✅ Learning to recognize
word families, e.g. the "at" family (bat, hat, cat, etc,)
9. Research by NICHD indicates that of the students with specific learning
disabilities receiving special education services - ANSWER ✅ 70-80% have
deficit in reading
10.According to the National Reading Panel Report (2000), which of the
following represents the strongest indication of a reading disability? -
ANSWER ✅ a deficit in phonology
11.A person who has, has a history of having, or is regarding as having an
impairment that significantly limits one or more of life's major functions [42
U.S.C - 12102 (2)] is entitled to benefits under - ANSWER ✅ both Section
504 and IDEA
12.An appropriate education for a student with a disability under the Section
504 regulations could consist of - ANSWER ✅ education in regular
classrooms, education in regular classes with supplementary services, and
special education and related services
13.According to IMSLEC and ALTA Code of Ethics, as an MSL
teacher/therapist you should - ANSWER ✅ provide reasonable expectations
of student outcomes to students and parents
,14.Your private student has reached all of the benchmarks you have
administered throughout the curriculum. His parents want you to
recommend placement for the coming school year. You should*** -
ANSWER ✅ give parents documentation of the services he has received
from you and discuss gradual transition into the classroom
15.Use of first person pronouns - ANSWER ✅ are inappropriate in a
professional report
16.Chall's Stage 1 of Reading Development - ANSWER ✅ Initial Reading &
Decoding - 6-7 years old, 1st grade/beginning 2nd grade, child learns
relation between letters and sounds and between printed and spoken words;
child is able to read simple text containing high frequency and phonetically
regular words, uses skill and insight to sound out new one syllable words
17.Chall's Stage 2 of Reading Development - ANSWER ✅ Confirmation and
Fluency - 7-8 years old, 2nd-3rd grade; child reads simple familiar stories
and selections with increasing fluency, which is done by consolidating the
basic decoding elements, sight vocabulary, and meaning context in the
reading of familiar stories and selections.
18.Chall's Stage 3 of Reading Development - ANSWER ✅ Reading for
learning the new - two phases A/B, phase A is intermediate 4th-6th grade,
phase B is jr high school 7th-9th grade; reading is used to learn new ideas, to
gain new knowledge, to experience new feelings, to learn new attitudes,
generally from one viewpoint.
19.Chall's stage 4 of reading development - ANSWER ✅ Multiple viewpoints -
15-17 years old, 10th-12th grade; reading widely from a broad range of
complex materials, both expository and narrative, with a variety of
viewpoints
, 20.Chall's stage 5 of reading development - ANSWER ✅ Construction and
reconstruction - 18+ years old, college and beyond; reading is used for one's
own needs and purposes (professional and personal), reading serves to
integrate one's knowledge with that of others, to synthesize it and create new
knowledge; it is rapid and efficient
21.dyslexia - ANSWER ✅ a specific learning disability that is neurological in
origin, which is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent
word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These
difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of
language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and
the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences
may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading
experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background
knowledge
22.dysgraphia - ANSWER ✅ extremely poor handwriting or the inability to
perform the motor movements required for handwriting. The condition is
associated with neurological dysfunction
23.dyspraxia - ANSWER ✅ sensorimotor disruption in which the motor signals
to the muscles, such as those necessary for speech production, are not
consistently or efficiently received
24.dysarthria - ANSWER ✅ neurological oral-motor dysfunction including
weaknesses of the musculature necessary for making the coordinated
movements of speech production
25.accommodation - ANSWER ✅ changes within the general classroom to
enable students to keep up with the education program, such as intensive
