CALT Exam Study Guide 2026 |
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• Alphabetic Principle -✓✓an understanding that letters and letter
patterns represent the sounds of spoken words.
• Analytic Phonics -✓✓In this approach, instruction begins with the
identification of a familiar word. The teacher then introduces a particular
sound/spelling relationship within that familiar word
• Synthetic Phonics -✓✓In this systematic and explicit approach,
students learn to transform letters and letter combinations into sounds
and then the sounds together to form recognizable words. Teach
individual parts and build to whole
• auditory discrimination -✓✓The ability to hear differences in sounds
• auditory span -✓✓the number of words, numbers, or sounds a student
can hold in his working memory. Can limit dictation or note taking.
• blend -✓✓two or more sounds that are frequently grouped together-
each sound can be separated into its individual components
• cedilla -✓✓a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate
that it is pronounced as an s
• circumflex -✓✓the code marked placed over vowels to indicate an
unusual pronunciation
• compensatory approach -✓✓one does not attempt to remediate the
problem but instead recommends modifications within the learning
environment which allows the student to be successful
, • Cloze Procedure -✓✓The use of semantic and syntactic clues to aid in
completing sentences."Fill in the blank"
• Coding -✓✓putting code marks on words- encourages kinesthetic
involvement and discourages guessing
• combination -✓✓a pattern of letters which occurs frequently together.
They form an unexpected sound (vr's, qu, wh)
• comorbid -✓✓two or more disorders in the same individual
• consonant -✓✓sounds that are blocked or partially blocked by the
tongue teeth and lips
• Decoding -✓✓using the sound/symbol system and structural analysis
to unlock unfamiliar words (synthetic)
• derivative -✓✓adding a prefix or a suffix to a base word
• diacritical markings -✓✓a mark indicating pronunciation
• dieresis -✓✓two dots over an a (a)
• diphthong -✓✓The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a
single syllable or running together the sounds. (ow, oi)
• discovery method -✓✓Presentation of new material which can be
deduced or discovered by the students (Socratic Method)
• Dolch List -✓✓high frequency word list which may be regular or
irregular
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• Alphabetic Principle -✓✓an understanding that letters and letter
patterns represent the sounds of spoken words.
• Analytic Phonics -✓✓In this approach, instruction begins with the
identification of a familiar word. The teacher then introduces a particular
sound/spelling relationship within that familiar word
• Synthetic Phonics -✓✓In this systematic and explicit approach,
students learn to transform letters and letter combinations into sounds
and then the sounds together to form recognizable words. Teach
individual parts and build to whole
• auditory discrimination -✓✓The ability to hear differences in sounds
• auditory span -✓✓the number of words, numbers, or sounds a student
can hold in his working memory. Can limit dictation or note taking.
• blend -✓✓two or more sounds that are frequently grouped together-
each sound can be separated into its individual components
• cedilla -✓✓a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate
that it is pronounced as an s
• circumflex -✓✓the code marked placed over vowels to indicate an
unusual pronunciation
• compensatory approach -✓✓one does not attempt to remediate the
problem but instead recommends modifications within the learning
environment which allows the student to be successful
, • Cloze Procedure -✓✓The use of semantic and syntactic clues to aid in
completing sentences."Fill in the blank"
• Coding -✓✓putting code marks on words- encourages kinesthetic
involvement and discourages guessing
• combination -✓✓a pattern of letters which occurs frequently together.
They form an unexpected sound (vr's, qu, wh)
• comorbid -✓✓two or more disorders in the same individual
• consonant -✓✓sounds that are blocked or partially blocked by the
tongue teeth and lips
• Decoding -✓✓using the sound/symbol system and structural analysis
to unlock unfamiliar words (synthetic)
• derivative -✓✓adding a prefix or a suffix to a base word
• diacritical markings -✓✓a mark indicating pronunciation
• dieresis -✓✓two dots over an a (a)
• diphthong -✓✓The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a
single syllable or running together the sounds. (ow, oi)
• discovery method -✓✓Presentation of new material which can be
deduced or discovered by the students (Socratic Method)
• Dolch List -✓✓high frequency word list which may be regular or
irregular
