CALT ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWER KEY
●● Segmental
Answer: Aspect of Language
(phonemes - vowels & consonants)
●● Phonoligical Awareness
Answer: The knowledge of and sensitivity to the sound structure of
language (umbrella term)
It includes: rhyming, segmentation activities, and manipulation activities
Segmentation Activities - segmenting sentences into words, segmenting
compound words into syllables, segmenting words into syllables,
identifying initial and final sounds, and segmenting syllables into
phonemes
Manipulation Activities - omitting syllables, omitting sounds in words,
and changing sounds into words
●● Dysarthria
,Answer: A disorder in the nervous system which hinders control over the
tongue, throat, lips, or lungs
Neurological oral-motor dysfunction including weakness of the
musculature necessary for coordinating movements of speech production
(slurred speech, difficulty with articulation)
●● Dyspraxia
Answer: Sensorimotor disruption in which the motor signals to the
muscles, such as those necessary for speech production, are not
consistently or efficiently received
Difficulty getting the body to do what you want it to
Difficulty planning and coordinating body movement
Difficulty coordinating facial muscles to produce sounds
(a person is born with dyspraxia)
●● Phonemic Awareness
Answer: Awareness of the smallest units of speech (phonemes) and the
ability to isolate or manipulate the individual phonemes in words
,●● Phonetics
Answer: The study of linguistic speech sounds and how they are
produced and perceived
●● Alphabetic Principle
Answer: The concept that letters on a page represent or map onto the
sounds in spoken words
●● Alphabetic Language
Answer: A language, such as English, in which letters are used
systematically to represent speech sounds or phonemes
●● Logographic Writing System
Answer: A system in which pictures represent the words of a language,
such as Chinese
If English was treated as a logographic writing system, it would contain
over 700,000 symbols
●● Grapheme
Answer: A written letter or letter cluster representing a single speech
sound
Ex: i, igh
, ●● Phonics
Answer: An approach to teaching reading and spelling that emphasizes
sound-symbol relationships
Sound + Letters
●● Euphony
Answer: Words formed or combined as to please the ear
The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation
●● 6 Kinds of Syllables
Answer: Open
Closed
Vowel - Consonant - e
Final Stable Syllable
Vowel Pair
Vowel - r
●● Naughty i
Answer: The vowel i is naughty when it is before a final stable syllable
in a words with three or more syllables
COMPLETE ANSWER KEY
●● Segmental
Answer: Aspect of Language
(phonemes - vowels & consonants)
●● Phonoligical Awareness
Answer: The knowledge of and sensitivity to the sound structure of
language (umbrella term)
It includes: rhyming, segmentation activities, and manipulation activities
Segmentation Activities - segmenting sentences into words, segmenting
compound words into syllables, segmenting words into syllables,
identifying initial and final sounds, and segmenting syllables into
phonemes
Manipulation Activities - omitting syllables, omitting sounds in words,
and changing sounds into words
●● Dysarthria
,Answer: A disorder in the nervous system which hinders control over the
tongue, throat, lips, or lungs
Neurological oral-motor dysfunction including weakness of the
musculature necessary for coordinating movements of speech production
(slurred speech, difficulty with articulation)
●● Dyspraxia
Answer: Sensorimotor disruption in which the motor signals to the
muscles, such as those necessary for speech production, are not
consistently or efficiently received
Difficulty getting the body to do what you want it to
Difficulty planning and coordinating body movement
Difficulty coordinating facial muscles to produce sounds
(a person is born with dyspraxia)
●● Phonemic Awareness
Answer: Awareness of the smallest units of speech (phonemes) and the
ability to isolate or manipulate the individual phonemes in words
,●● Phonetics
Answer: The study of linguistic speech sounds and how they are
produced and perceived
●● Alphabetic Principle
Answer: The concept that letters on a page represent or map onto the
sounds in spoken words
●● Alphabetic Language
Answer: A language, such as English, in which letters are used
systematically to represent speech sounds or phonemes
●● Logographic Writing System
Answer: A system in which pictures represent the words of a language,
such as Chinese
If English was treated as a logographic writing system, it would contain
over 700,000 symbols
●● Grapheme
Answer: A written letter or letter cluster representing a single speech
sound
Ex: i, igh
, ●● Phonics
Answer: An approach to teaching reading and spelling that emphasizes
sound-symbol relationships
Sound + Letters
●● Euphony
Answer: Words formed or combined as to please the ear
The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation
●● 6 Kinds of Syllables
Answer: Open
Closed
Vowel - Consonant - e
Final Stable Syllable
Vowel Pair
Vowel - r
●● Naughty i
Answer: The vowel i is naughty when it is before a final stable syllable
in a words with three or more syllables
