ALTA Exam
dyslexia - Answer-adequate intelligence, yet trouble with reading, writing, and spelling
stephosymbolia - Answer-twisted symbols
phonetics - Answer-the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - Answer-(umbrella term) the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - Answer-(can be done in the dark) awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - Answer-(cannot be done in the dark) instruction that connects sounds and letters; sound to
symbol
synthetic/intensive phonics - Answer-part to whole
analytic phonics - Answer-whole to part
alphabetic principle - Answer-the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written
letters (phonics=sound to symbol)
echolalia - Answer-repetition of speech by a child learning to talk (babbling)
,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
grapheme - Answer-a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - Answer-word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to determine a word
blending - Answer-fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units
reading - Answer-symbol to sound/grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - Answer-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.
stem: awe - Answer-terror or dread
morphology - Answer-the study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that make words
phonology, morphology, syntax - Answer-form of language
fluency - Answer-reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody - Answer-the rhythmic flow of oral reading
, pragmatics - Answer-set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and social use of language
syntax - Answer-sentence structure, grammar
semantics - Answer-content of language, used to express knowledge of the world around us
phoneme - Answer-smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - Answer-sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to phoneme (encoding)
orthography - Answer-correct spelling of sounds & symbols in written language
orthographic memory - Answer-(orthographic mapping) the memory of letter patterns and word
spellings; ability to quickly process and read a word
metalinguistics - Answer-awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery (Socratic method) - Answer-a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - Answer-means to discovery by demonstration
fricative - Answer-a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening between the teeth or lips;
ex: (f), (sh), (z)
nasal sound - Answer-a sound produced by forcing air out through the nose; ex: (n), (m)
dyslexia - Answer-adequate intelligence, yet trouble with reading, writing, and spelling
stephosymbolia - Answer-twisted symbols
phonetics - Answer-the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - Answer-(umbrella term) the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - Answer-(can be done in the dark) awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - Answer-(cannot be done in the dark) instruction that connects sounds and letters; sound to
symbol
synthetic/intensive phonics - Answer-part to whole
analytic phonics - Answer-whole to part
alphabetic principle - Answer-the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written
letters (phonics=sound to symbol)
echolalia - Answer-repetition of speech by a child learning to talk (babbling)
,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
grapheme - Answer-a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - Answer-word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to determine a word
blending - Answer-fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units
reading - Answer-symbol to sound/grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - Answer-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.
stem: awe - Answer-terror or dread
morphology - Answer-the study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that make words
phonology, morphology, syntax - Answer-form of language
fluency - Answer-reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody - Answer-the rhythmic flow of oral reading
, pragmatics - Answer-set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and social use of language
syntax - Answer-sentence structure, grammar
semantics - Answer-content of language, used to express knowledge of the world around us
phoneme - Answer-smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - Answer-sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to phoneme (encoding)
orthography - Answer-correct spelling of sounds & symbols in written language
orthographic memory - Answer-(orthographic mapping) the memory of letter patterns and word
spellings; ability to quickly process and read a word
metalinguistics - Answer-awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery (Socratic method) - Answer-a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - Answer-means to discovery by demonstration
fricative - Answer-a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening between the teeth or lips;
ex: (f), (sh), (z)
nasal sound - Answer-a sound produced by forcing air out through the nose; ex: (n), (m)
