CALP Test Study Guide: Your Exam Prep: Questions
With Solutions
Dyslexia Right Ans - A neurobiological learning disability
Deficit in the phonological component of language.
Poor spelling and decoding abilities.
Adequate intelligence.
Stephosymbolia Right Ans - means twisted symbols
phonetics Right Ans - the system of speech sounds in a language
phonological awareness Right Ans - The ability to focus on units of sound
in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels.
Rhyming, syllable counting, identifying first, middle and last sounds, add-
delete-substitute sounds.
phonemic awareness Right Ans - Awareness of the smallest units of sound
in speech and the ability to isolate or manipulate the individual sounds in
words.
phonics Right Ans - Paired association between letters and sounds.
Teaching of reading and spelling with sound-symbol relationships.
intensive phonics Right Ans -
synthetic phonics Right Ans - part to whole
alphabetic principle Right Ans - Letters and letter patterns represent
sounds in spoken language.
consonant Right Ans - blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of
speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel Right Ans - open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
producedby the passage of air through an open vocal tract
,grapheme Right Ans - a letter(or letter cluster) that represents a SINGLE
speech sound
decoding Right Ans - word recognition in which the phonetic code is
broken down to determine a word
blending Right Ans - fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
reading Right Ans - symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme Right Ans - the smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix,
prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man.
etc.
morphology Right Ans - The study of word formation patterns, meaningful
units that make words and relationships among words.
syntax Right Ans - The system by which words may be ordered in phrases,
clauses, and sentences. Sentence structure and grammar.
phonology Right Ans - the rules that determine how sounds are used in
spoken language
fluency Right Ans - reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody Right Ans - the rhythmic flow of oral reading. flow and expression
pragmatics Right Ans - The set of rules that dictates behavior for
communicative intentions in particular contexts. Rules of conversation and
discourse.Use of language
syntax Right Ans - sentence structure, grammar
semantics Right Ans - content of language, used to express knowledge of
the world
phoneme Right Ans - smallest unit of sound in a syllable
, spelling Right Ans - sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme
orthography Right Ans - the spelling of written language
orthographic memory Right Ans - memory of letter patterns and word
spellings
metalinguistics Right Ans - awareness of language as an entity that can be
contemplated.
guided discovery Right Ans - a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic Right Ans - discover by demonstration
fricative Right Ans - a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow
opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound Right Ans - a sound produced by forcing air out through the
nose / n / / m /
continuant sound Right Ans - a sound prolonged in its production / m / /
s//f/
stop consonant sound- Right Ans - a sound obstructed / they must be
clipped off / b / / d /
aspiration Right Ans - puff of air
digraph Right Ans - two letters that make one sound
trigraph Right Ans - three letters that make one sound
How are decks aligned? Right Ans - alignment of multiple responses
according to frequency and reliability
quadrigraph Right Ans - 4 Letters that make one sound
With Solutions
Dyslexia Right Ans - A neurobiological learning disability
Deficit in the phonological component of language.
Poor spelling and decoding abilities.
Adequate intelligence.
Stephosymbolia Right Ans - means twisted symbols
phonetics Right Ans - the system of speech sounds in a language
phonological awareness Right Ans - The ability to focus on units of sound
in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels.
Rhyming, syllable counting, identifying first, middle and last sounds, add-
delete-substitute sounds.
phonemic awareness Right Ans - Awareness of the smallest units of sound
in speech and the ability to isolate or manipulate the individual sounds in
words.
phonics Right Ans - Paired association between letters and sounds.
Teaching of reading and spelling with sound-symbol relationships.
intensive phonics Right Ans -
synthetic phonics Right Ans - part to whole
alphabetic principle Right Ans - Letters and letter patterns represent
sounds in spoken language.
consonant Right Ans - blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of
speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel Right Ans - open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
producedby the passage of air through an open vocal tract
,grapheme Right Ans - a letter(or letter cluster) that represents a SINGLE
speech sound
decoding Right Ans - word recognition in which the phonetic code is
broken down to determine a word
blending Right Ans - fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
reading Right Ans - symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme Right Ans - the smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix,
prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man.
etc.
morphology Right Ans - The study of word formation patterns, meaningful
units that make words and relationships among words.
syntax Right Ans - The system by which words may be ordered in phrases,
clauses, and sentences. Sentence structure and grammar.
phonology Right Ans - the rules that determine how sounds are used in
spoken language
fluency Right Ans - reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody Right Ans - the rhythmic flow of oral reading. flow and expression
pragmatics Right Ans - The set of rules that dictates behavior for
communicative intentions in particular contexts. Rules of conversation and
discourse.Use of language
syntax Right Ans - sentence structure, grammar
semantics Right Ans - content of language, used to express knowledge of
the world
phoneme Right Ans - smallest unit of sound in a syllable
, spelling Right Ans - sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme
orthography Right Ans - the spelling of written language
orthographic memory Right Ans - memory of letter patterns and word
spellings
metalinguistics Right Ans - awareness of language as an entity that can be
contemplated.
guided discovery Right Ans - a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic Right Ans - discover by demonstration
fricative Right Ans - a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow
opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound Right Ans - a sound produced by forcing air out through the
nose / n / / m /
continuant sound Right Ans - a sound prolonged in its production / m / /
s//f/
stop consonant sound- Right Ans - a sound obstructed / they must be
clipped off / b / / d /
aspiration Right Ans - puff of air
digraph Right Ans - two letters that make one sound
trigraph Right Ans - three letters that make one sound
How are decks aligned? Right Ans - alignment of multiple responses
according to frequency and reliability
quadrigraph Right Ans - 4 Letters that make one sound
