ALTA Exam UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
1. VAKT -ANSWER visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile
2. kinesthetic -ANSWER bodily movements and tensions
3. tactile -ANSWER sense of touch
4. Phonological Awareness -ANSWER word awareness, syllable awareness, and phonemic
awareness
5. Phonemic Awareness includes... -ANSWER sensitivity to rhyme, matching alliteration and rhyme,
partial phoneme segmentation, and phoneme manipulation
6. accent -ANSWER stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a
phrase or sentence
7. affix -ANSWER a letter or group of letters added to the beginning or end of a word to change its
form or usage
8. analytic phonics -ANSWER separates the whole word into its constituent parts so students can
deduce the phonic relationships of the separate orthographic patterns
9. Automaticity -ANSWER the ability to respond or react without attention or conscious effort.
10. base word -ANSWER the simplest form of an English word
11. blend -ANSWER two or more adjacent consonants whose sounds flow smoothly together
, 12. breve -ANSWER a curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary
symbol notation that indicates a short vowel sound in a closed syllable
13. Comprehension -ANSWER Making sense of what we read
14. comprehension depends on... -ANSWER good word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, worldly
knowledge, language ability
15. consonant -ANSWER one of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal
tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips, tongue, or teeth during articulation
16. derivative -ANSWER a word made from a base word by adding one or more affixes
17. digraph -ANSWER Two adjacent consonants or two adjacent vowels in the same syllable
representing a single speech sound.
18. diphthong -ANSWER Two adjacent vowels in the same syllable whose sounds blend together
with a slide or shift during the production of the syllable
19. Fluency -ANSWER the ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that
allows the reader to focus on meaning
20. Grapheme -ANSWER a written letter or letter cluster representing a single speech sound
21. macron -ANSWER a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound
22. medial -ANSWER letters or sounds that occur in the interior of a word or syllable
23. metacognition -ANSWER the deliberate rearrangement, regrouping, or transfer of information;
the conscious choice of strategies used to accomplish a task and processes to provide feedback
on learning and performance
AND ANSWERS
1. VAKT -ANSWER visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile
2. kinesthetic -ANSWER bodily movements and tensions
3. tactile -ANSWER sense of touch
4. Phonological Awareness -ANSWER word awareness, syllable awareness, and phonemic
awareness
5. Phonemic Awareness includes... -ANSWER sensitivity to rhyme, matching alliteration and rhyme,
partial phoneme segmentation, and phoneme manipulation
6. accent -ANSWER stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a
phrase or sentence
7. affix -ANSWER a letter or group of letters added to the beginning or end of a word to change its
form or usage
8. analytic phonics -ANSWER separates the whole word into its constituent parts so students can
deduce the phonic relationships of the separate orthographic patterns
9. Automaticity -ANSWER the ability to respond or react without attention or conscious effort.
10. base word -ANSWER the simplest form of an English word
11. blend -ANSWER two or more adjacent consonants whose sounds flow smoothly together
, 12. breve -ANSWER a curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary
symbol notation that indicates a short vowel sound in a closed syllable
13. Comprehension -ANSWER Making sense of what we read
14. comprehension depends on... -ANSWER good word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, worldly
knowledge, language ability
15. consonant -ANSWER one of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal
tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips, tongue, or teeth during articulation
16. derivative -ANSWER a word made from a base word by adding one or more affixes
17. digraph -ANSWER Two adjacent consonants or two adjacent vowels in the same syllable
representing a single speech sound.
18. diphthong -ANSWER Two adjacent vowels in the same syllable whose sounds blend together
with a slide or shift during the production of the syllable
19. Fluency -ANSWER the ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that
allows the reader to focus on meaning
20. Grapheme -ANSWER a written letter or letter cluster representing a single speech sound
21. macron -ANSWER a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound
22. medial -ANSWER letters or sounds that occur in the interior of a word or syllable
23. metacognition -ANSWER the deliberate rearrangement, regrouping, or transfer of information;
the conscious choice of strategies used to accomplish a task and processes to provide feedback
on learning and performance
