2024 CALT EXAM PREP COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

2024 CALT EXAM PREP
COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Words with t pronounced /ch/: nature, punctual - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin

Words with d pronounced /j/ educate, graduate - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin

Words with silent initial h: hour, herb, honor - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin

Words with ular: regular, popular - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin

Words with j: joint, journal - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin

Words that are legal terms: justice, legal, judge - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin

Words with the soft c before e and i: cent, census, city - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin

Words with sc pronounced /s/: science, irascible, scissors - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Latin

Medical , technical and scientific words - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

Words with ph: phrase, graph, phone - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

Words with ch pronounced /k/: choir, ache, orchid - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

Long words with the letter k: kilometer, kinescope - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

Long words or short, unfamiliar words with th: thermos, athlete - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Greek

Words with medial y: cycle, gymnastics, thyme - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

Words related to Olympics: marathon, discus, meter - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

Words related to theater: comedy, tragedy, orchestra - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

Words with rh: rhyme, rhombus - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

,Words with ology: biology, theology, astrology - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

Words with silent initial p: pseudonym, psychology - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek

Rapid letter naming - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>key to automatic word recognition

decoding and encoding - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>refer to applying the skills of
analytic and synthetic learning

recognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound correspondence, and blending sounds
into a words - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>decoding

Effective handwriting instruction - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>includes teaching the
correct pencil grip and formation of each letter

McGuffey Readers - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Formal reading instruction was based
on "phonics" used at the beginning of the 20th Century

Dick & Jane ( "Look/Say" Method ) - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Thought that children
would make more rapid progress reading if they identified whole words at a glance.
Used from 1930s - 1960s.

Rudolph Flesch - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>brought the issue of the great debate to the
publics attention on how best to teach a child to read. This came about in his book.
"Why Johnny Can't Read" (Mid 1950s)

NICHD - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Began looking at the issue as the deemed the
inability to read as a "national health issue" and began to fund research in the area of
reading. (1965)

"Learning to Read: The Great Debate" Jean Chall - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>This
book caught the attention of professionals and the government that our nation is in a
reading crisis. Children are not learning to read since the look and say method came
about. (1967)

Basal Reading Programs - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>These programs begin to drive
reading instruction. 70% of American Schools bought one or more of the best selling
programs. (1960s to mid 80s)

Kenneth Goodman and Frank Smith - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Developed the
TopDown approach to reading instruction. Believed that reading should be taught
through immersion in children's literature . Teaches reading without breaking it down

, into parts. Whole Language based, emphasis is on guessing at words rather than
sounding them out. (1980s)

G. Reid Lyon - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Became the coordinator of the research for
NICHD. (1985)

National Reading Panel Report - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Produced scientifically
based research that demonstrated that approximately 40% of the population "have
reading problems severe enough to hinder their enjoyment of reading." (2000)

Percentage of students in special ed who can't read - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>85%
(NICHD)

Five critical components of reading instruction - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency (identifying words accurately and fluently); vocabulary and
comprehension strategies (constructing meaning once words are identified)

I M F - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>initial, medial, final

Middle - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>means very center

Medial - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>means between initial and final

V - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>vowel

C - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>consonant

Paired equivalent sounds - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>/ch//j/ /f//v/ /p//b/ /sh//zh/ /t//d/
/k//g/ /s//z/ /th//th/

How are our decks aligned and why?*** - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Alignment of
multiple responses - according to frequency and reliability of sounds

Digraph - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>two letters that come together to make one sound

Trigraph - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>three letters that come together to make one
sound

Quadrigraph - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>four letters that come together to make one
sound

Diphthong - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>two vowels sounds blended togther in the same