CALP 2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔dyspraxia - ✔✔sensorimotor disruption; motor signals to muscles ( as for speech)
are not easily received
✔✔etymology - ✔✔origin and history of a word
✔✔fluency - ✔✔translating print to speech ( oral reading) at an appropriate rate which
allows reader to comprehend text
✔✔graphophonemic knowledge - ✔✔recognition of the alphbet and the understanding
of sound/symbol relationships and spelling patterns
✔✔inflectional ending/suffix - ✔✔letters that combine with base word to express tense,
#, mood, or person. ( -s, -ing, -ed)
✔✔metacognition - ✔✔deliberate rearrangement or modal transfer of info; awareness of
one's own thinking strategies and how they work; being consciously engaged in one's
own learning
✔✔Dr. Pringle Morgan - ✔✔1896; Congenital Word Blindness;inability to read despite
no apparent injury or illness
✔✔cognition - ✔✔ability to think, reason, and solve problems; measured by IQ test;
generalize form past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations
✔✔comprehension - ✔✔making sense of what is read;dependent on
✔✔achievement test - ✔✔standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount
of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired used as a measurement to evaluate
student learning in comparison with a norm
, ✔✔age equivalent - ✔✔score calculated based on the age an average person would
score within the testing population
✔✔ALTA - ✔✔Academic Language Therapy Association
✔✔Chall's Stage 0 - ✔✔Pre-reading; Oral language development
✔✔Chall's Stage 1 - ✔✔Initial reading; letters represent sounds/SS Relationship
✔✔Chall's Stage 2 - ✔✔Confirmation and Fluency-decoding skills, fluency etc
✔✔Chall's Stage 3 - ✔✔Reading for Learning "the new" - expand vocab, build
backgrounds, expand strategies
✔✔Chall's Stage 4 - ✔✔Multiple viewpoints - analyze text critically
✔✔Chall's Stage 5 - ✔✔Construction and reconstruction - construct understanding
based on analysis and synthesis
✔✔CTOPP - ✔✔Comprehensive Tesos of Phonologically Processing. Screening test
✔✔dipthongs - ✔✔2 vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds make
on syllable - oi, oy, ou(out), and ow (cow)
✔✔expressive language - ✔✔the ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally
to others
✔✔GORT - ✔✔Gray Oral Reading Test; growth in oral reading, aid in diagnosing
reading difficulties
✔✔Great Vowel Shift - ✔✔England 1350-1500 responsible for many peculiarities of
English. Otto Jespersen.
✔✔Language Experience - ✔✔Whole Language; uses child's oral language for spelling
and reading
✔✔Letter naming chart - ✔✔screening test, elementary only
✔✔linguistic method - ✔✔supported by qualitative research only; teaches whole words;
not explicit
✔✔Middle English - ✔✔Edward III; English again official language; Canterbury Tales;
English borrows form latin and Greek; Anglo-French compounds appear ( gentleman,
faithful)
✔✔dyspraxia - ✔✔sensorimotor disruption; motor signals to muscles ( as for speech)
are not easily received
✔✔etymology - ✔✔origin and history of a word
✔✔fluency - ✔✔translating print to speech ( oral reading) at an appropriate rate which
allows reader to comprehend text
✔✔graphophonemic knowledge - ✔✔recognition of the alphbet and the understanding
of sound/symbol relationships and spelling patterns
✔✔inflectional ending/suffix - ✔✔letters that combine with base word to express tense,
#, mood, or person. ( -s, -ing, -ed)
✔✔metacognition - ✔✔deliberate rearrangement or modal transfer of info; awareness of
one's own thinking strategies and how they work; being consciously engaged in one's
own learning
✔✔Dr. Pringle Morgan - ✔✔1896; Congenital Word Blindness;inability to read despite
no apparent injury or illness
✔✔cognition - ✔✔ability to think, reason, and solve problems; measured by IQ test;
generalize form past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations
✔✔comprehension - ✔✔making sense of what is read;dependent on
✔✔achievement test - ✔✔standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount
of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired used as a measurement to evaluate
student learning in comparison with a norm
, ✔✔age equivalent - ✔✔score calculated based on the age an average person would
score within the testing population
✔✔ALTA - ✔✔Academic Language Therapy Association
✔✔Chall's Stage 0 - ✔✔Pre-reading; Oral language development
✔✔Chall's Stage 1 - ✔✔Initial reading; letters represent sounds/SS Relationship
✔✔Chall's Stage 2 - ✔✔Confirmation and Fluency-decoding skills, fluency etc
✔✔Chall's Stage 3 - ✔✔Reading for Learning "the new" - expand vocab, build
backgrounds, expand strategies
✔✔Chall's Stage 4 - ✔✔Multiple viewpoints - analyze text critically
✔✔Chall's Stage 5 - ✔✔Construction and reconstruction - construct understanding
based on analysis and synthesis
✔✔CTOPP - ✔✔Comprehensive Tesos of Phonologically Processing. Screening test
✔✔dipthongs - ✔✔2 vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds make
on syllable - oi, oy, ou(out), and ow (cow)
✔✔expressive language - ✔✔the ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally
to others
✔✔GORT - ✔✔Gray Oral Reading Test; growth in oral reading, aid in diagnosing
reading difficulties
✔✔Great Vowel Shift - ✔✔England 1350-1500 responsible for many peculiarities of
English. Otto Jespersen.
✔✔Language Experience - ✔✔Whole Language; uses child's oral language for spelling
and reading
✔✔Letter naming chart - ✔✔screening test, elementary only
✔✔linguistic method - ✔✔supported by qualitative research only; teaches whole words;
not explicit
✔✔Middle English - ✔✔Edward III; English again official language; Canterbury Tales;
English borrows form latin and Greek; Anglo-French compounds appear ( gentleman,
faithful)
