Calt TEST STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS LATEST VERSION

Calt TEST STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS LATEST VERSION Strephosymbolia - ANSWER means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for dyslexia. 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 consonant - ANSWER blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed vowel - ANSWER open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract phonology - ANSWER the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language fluency - ANSWER reading with rapidity and automaticity with prosody alphabetic language - ANSWER English; meaning symbols and letters reflect pronunciation of a sound; ESL students' first lang may not be alphabetic because they use symbols; phonological knowledge must be taught, so alphabet needs to be taught Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken words. Analytic Phonics - ANSWER In this approach, instruction begins with the identification of a familiar word. The teacher then introduces a particular sound/spelling relationship within that familiar word Synthetic Phonics - ANSWER In this systematic and explicit approach, students learn to transform letters and letter combinations into sounds and then the sounds together to form recognizable words. Teach individual parts and build to whole Bonita Blachman - ANSWER professor at Syracuse University. Has done much research in the field of phonology and reading.Created Elkonian cards (kids who couldn't read couldn't segment sounds as well). Free morpheme - ANSWER can stand alone as words and do not have to be combined with other morphemes. Free morpheme: function words - ANSWER prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, articles Free morpheme: content words - ANSWER nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs Free morpheme: compounds - ANSWER generally composed of Anglo-Saxon words, combinations of two free morphemes Bound morphemes - ANSWER work as meaningful units only in combination with other morphemes (suffixes, bound roots [Latin], and prefixes). Inflections - ANSWER bound morphemes that show possession, gender, or number (noun - s, a, es); tense, voice, or mood (verb - ed, en, could have been); and comparison (adjective - er, est). Derivational suffixes - ANSWER morphemes, added to roots or bases to form new words that usually change the grammatical category of a word. Greek-derived morphemes - ANSWER not necessarily assigned specific roles as prefixes, suffixes, or roots and may combine with other bound morphemes of equal importance in flexible order. Derivational complexity - ANSWER characterizes the number and type of changes that have been made int he base word or root when it is combined with other morphemes. Types of phonological change are: syllable regrouping, vowel alternation, consonant alternation, and stress alternation. Principals of ALTA Code of Ethics - ANSWER standards of personal conduct, standards of professional conduct, conflict of interest, confidentiality Developmental auditory imperception - ANSWER disorder related to dyslexia dysphasia - ANSWER disorder related to dyslexia Specific developmental dyslexia - ANSWER disorder related to dyslexia developmental dysgraphia - ANSWER disorder related to dyslexia developmental spelling disability - ANSWER disorder related to dyslexia Ability - ANSWER test designed to measure either general intelligence or mental apptitude in a particular area. Academic Achievement Test - ANSWER standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and or skill a person has acquired, usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learning in comparison with a standard or norm. Accent - ANSWER stress on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. It is spoken louder, longer, and/or in a higher tone. The mouth opens wider while saying it. Accommodation - ANSWER provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge. Changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or test. Accuracy - ANSWER The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time. ADHD - ANSWER Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adolf Kusmaul - ANSWER 1877 - first used the term "word-blindness". Age equivalent - ANSWER a type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population. Alvin and Isabel Liberman - ANSWER Alphabetic principle and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading. Anglo Saxon - ANSWER Also Old English - spoken and written between at least the mid 5th century and the mid 12th century Anglo Saxon Layer of Language - ANSWER Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life. Common, every day, down to earth words. Most are one syllable words. Anna Gillingham - ANSWER 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T Orton at Columbia University, developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time, began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 teachers.