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CALT Exam Prep Questions and Correct
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Strephosymbolia
Ans: means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics
Ans: the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness
Ans: the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken language
at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness
Ans: awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in spoken
words
phonics
Ans: instruction that connects sounds and letters
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synthetic phonics
Ans: explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or
whole words
alphabetic principle
Ans: the understanding that spoken sounds are represente d in
print by written letters
consonant
Ans: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech
sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel
Ans: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology
Ans: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
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fluency
Ans: reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody
Ans: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics
Ans: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use
of language, rules we communicate by
syntax
Ans: sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics
Ans: content of language, used to express knowledge of the
world around us - meaning
phoneme
Ans: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
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spelling
Ans: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography
Ans: the spelling of written language
orthographic memory
Ans: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics
Ans: awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery
Ans: a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic
Ans: means to discover by demonstration
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CALT Exam Prep Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
Strephosymbolia
Ans: means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics
Ans: the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness
Ans: the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken language
at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness
Ans: awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in spoken
words
phonics
Ans: instruction that connects sounds and letters
All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 |
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synthetic phonics
Ans: explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or
whole words
alphabetic principle
Ans: the understanding that spoken sounds are represente d in
print by written letters
consonant
Ans: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech
sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel
Ans: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology
Ans: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
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fluency
Ans: reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody
Ans: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics
Ans: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use
of language, rules we communicate by
syntax
Ans: sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics
Ans: content of language, used to express knowledge of the
world around us - meaning
phoneme
Ans: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
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spelling
Ans: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography
Ans: the spelling of written language
orthographic memory
Ans: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics
Ans: awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery
Ans: a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic
Ans: means to discover by demonstration
All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 |
