ALTA COMPETENCY ACTUAL FINALS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔morpheme - ✔✔the smallest meaningful linguistic unit; a morpheme may be a whole
word, base word, prefix, suffix, or root word. Bound morpheme: a morpheme that must
be attached to other morphemes (-ed in spotted, -s in boys, pre- in preview). Free
morpheme: a morpheme that can stand alone as a whole word (box, plant, tame); also
called unbound morpheme.
✔✔morphology - ✔✔study of the structure and form of words in language including
inflection, derivation, and formation of compounds
✔✔layers of language - ✔✔3-5% other
10-12% Greek
60% Latin
20-25% Anglo-Saxon/Old English
✔✔Multisensory Teaching - ✔✔Utilization of more than one pathway to learning: visual,
auditory, kinesthetic.
✔✔onset - ✔✔initial consonant sound(s) of a syllable (BL ack)
✔✔Orton-Gillingham Approach - ✔✔Multisensory method of teaching language-related
academic skills that focuses on the structure and use of sounds, syllables, words,
sentences, and written discourse. Instruction is explicit, systematic, cumulative, direct,
and sequential.
✔✔orthography - ✔✔correct written spelling
✔✔phoneme - ✔✔sound that is indicated by parentheses = (t) or /t/; there are 44
speech sounds in English
, ✔✔Phonemic Awareness - ✔✔an awareness that speech is composed of a series of
individual phonemes
✔✔phonetics - ✔✔the study of the characteristics of speech sounds
✔✔phonological awareness - ✔✔an awareness of the sound structure of spoken
language apart from its meaning and a conscious ability to detect, combine, and
manipulate different sizes of sound units
✔✔rhyme - ✔✔matching the endings of words (cat, bat, hat)
✔✔alliteration - ✔✔producing groups of words that begin with the same initial sound
(ten tiny tadpoles)
✔✔sentence segmentation - ✔✔Segmenting sentences into spoken words.
Ex: The Dog ran away.
1234
✔✔syllable segmentation - ✔✔Segmenting words into syllables.
Ex: bas ket ball
✔✔onsets and rimes blending and segmenting - ✔✔blending and segmenting the initial
consonant or cluster (onset) and the vowel and consonant sounds spoken after it (rime);
/m/ /ice/ /sh/ /ake/
✔✔compound words - ✔✔blending and segmenting spoken words into 2 words
✔✔Phonemes Blending & Segmenting - ✔✔Blending phonemes into words,
segmenting words into individual phonemes and manipulating phonemes in spoken
words:
VC, CV, CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC
Ex: At, Po, Cat, Step, Fast
✔✔phonological awareness continuum - ✔✔rhyme --> alliteration --> sentence
segmentation --> syllable segmentation --> compound words blending and segmenting -
-> onset/rime blending and segmenting --> phoneme blending and segmenting
✔✔Phonology - ✔✔sound structure of speech, particularly, the perception,
representation, and production of speech sounds
✔✔prefix - ✔✔a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a base word to
change its meaning, such as misspell
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔morpheme - ✔✔the smallest meaningful linguistic unit; a morpheme may be a whole
word, base word, prefix, suffix, or root word. Bound morpheme: a morpheme that must
be attached to other morphemes (-ed in spotted, -s in boys, pre- in preview). Free
morpheme: a morpheme that can stand alone as a whole word (box, plant, tame); also
called unbound morpheme.
✔✔morphology - ✔✔study of the structure and form of words in language including
inflection, derivation, and formation of compounds
✔✔layers of language - ✔✔3-5% other
10-12% Greek
60% Latin
20-25% Anglo-Saxon/Old English
✔✔Multisensory Teaching - ✔✔Utilization of more than one pathway to learning: visual,
auditory, kinesthetic.
✔✔onset - ✔✔initial consonant sound(s) of a syllable (BL ack)
✔✔Orton-Gillingham Approach - ✔✔Multisensory method of teaching language-related
academic skills that focuses on the structure and use of sounds, syllables, words,
sentences, and written discourse. Instruction is explicit, systematic, cumulative, direct,
and sequential.
✔✔orthography - ✔✔correct written spelling
✔✔phoneme - ✔✔sound that is indicated by parentheses = (t) or /t/; there are 44
speech sounds in English
, ✔✔Phonemic Awareness - ✔✔an awareness that speech is composed of a series of
individual phonemes
✔✔phonetics - ✔✔the study of the characteristics of speech sounds
✔✔phonological awareness - ✔✔an awareness of the sound structure of spoken
language apart from its meaning and a conscious ability to detect, combine, and
manipulate different sizes of sound units
✔✔rhyme - ✔✔matching the endings of words (cat, bat, hat)
✔✔alliteration - ✔✔producing groups of words that begin with the same initial sound
(ten tiny tadpoles)
✔✔sentence segmentation - ✔✔Segmenting sentences into spoken words.
Ex: The Dog ran away.
1234
✔✔syllable segmentation - ✔✔Segmenting words into syllables.
Ex: bas ket ball
✔✔onsets and rimes blending and segmenting - ✔✔blending and segmenting the initial
consonant or cluster (onset) and the vowel and consonant sounds spoken after it (rime);
/m/ /ice/ /sh/ /ake/
✔✔compound words - ✔✔blending and segmenting spoken words into 2 words
✔✔Phonemes Blending & Segmenting - ✔✔Blending phonemes into words,
segmenting words into individual phonemes and manipulating phonemes in spoken
words:
VC, CV, CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC
Ex: At, Po, Cat, Step, Fast
✔✔phonological awareness continuum - ✔✔rhyme --> alliteration --> sentence
segmentation --> syllable segmentation --> compound words blending and segmenting -
-> onset/rime blending and segmenting --> phoneme blending and segmenting
✔✔Phonology - ✔✔sound structure of speech, particularly, the perception,
representation, and production of speech sounds
✔✔prefix - ✔✔a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a base word to
change its meaning, such as misspell
