CALT Exam Study Guide | 400+ Questions | 100% Correct Answers.

CALT Exam Study Guide | 400+ Questions | 100% Correct Answers. What is the origin and meaning of "ang" - Correct answer-Latin; bend What does the Conner's Report help diagnose? - Correct answer-ADD Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms are _______? - Correct answer-Morphemes Define prosody - Correct answer-Flow of speech Define euphony - Correct answer-sound/pleasing sound Reading nonsense words on a norm-referenced test is used to assess what? - Correct answer-word attack What is the origin of the "schwa" or unstressed vowel sound? - Correct answer-Latin What is the origin of the affixing of base words? - Correct answer-Latin What is the origin of combining words? - Correct answer-Greek What is the origin of compound words? - Correct answer-Anglo-Saxon What is the origin of the affixing of roots? - Correct answer-Anglo-Saxon Sadly has how phonemes? - Correct answer-5 Sadly has how many syllables? - Correct answer-2 What is the base word of sadly? - Correct answer-Sad What is the suffix of sadly? - Correct answer--ly How many morphemes does sadly have? - Correct answer-2 What is sadly's word origin? - Correct answer-Anglo-Saxon What is the origin of vowel pairs? - Correct answer-Anglo-Saxon What is the origin of chameleon prefixes? - Correct answer-Latin What is the origin of the consonant cluster ch pronounced (k)? - Correct answer-Greek What is the origin of Medial Y? - Correct answer-Greek What is the origin of the consonant pairs gn, kn, & wr? - Correct answer-Anglo-Saxon What is the origin of roots that end in ct and pt? - Correct answer-Latin What is the origin of initial consonant clusters rh, pt, pn, & ps? - Correct answer-Greek What is the origin of common, everyday words? - Correct answer-Anglo-Saxon What is the origin of the letter c, s, & t pronounced (sh)? - Correct answer-Latin What is the origin of consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, & wh? - Correct answer-AngloSaxon Who coined the term congenital word blindness? - Correct answer-James Hinshelwood What are the three languages that have most influenced the English Language? - Correct answer-Anglo-Saxon/Old English, Latin, & Greek What is the term for not being able to recall names? - Correct answer-dysnomia What is the term for letter representation of a sound- written unit? - Correct answergrapheme What is the term for the difficulty in remembering words? - Correct answer-dysphasia What is the term for one who can read well but is severely unable to comprehend? - Correct answer-hyperlexia What is the term for analytic instruction that presents the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts like unblending in spelling? (whole to part) - Correct answer-analytic phonics What is significant about 1066 AD? - Correct answer-The Normand invasion of England Who saw patients unable to read, spell, or write, but could determine no physical cause? (1920's) - Correct answer-Dr. Samuel T. Orton Who recognized that treatment was educational and prescribed specialized multisensory teaching techniques and in the 30's worked closely w/a # of educators including Anna Gillingham? - Correct answer-Dr. Samuel T. Orton What is the term for the writing system of language? (correct, spelling, usage) - Correct answer-Orthography What is the term for the whole to part phonics approach, key sight words, relevant phonic generalizations, symbol/sound correspondences, top-down method? - Correct answer-analytic phonics (deductive phonics) What is the term for a vowel and the rest of the consonants in a syllable? ex: cat=at - Correct answer-Rime What is the term for the vocabulary of a language? - Correct answer-Lexical What is the term for two or more letters whose sounds flow smoothly together? - Correct answer-Blend What is the term for two adjacent vowels in the same syllable whose sounds blend together with a slide or shift during productivity? - Correct answer-Diphthong What is the term for two adjacent letters in the same syllable that represent one sound? - Correct answer-Digraph What is the term for combined sounds represented by letters to pronounce a word? - Correct answer-Blends What is the term that applies to a letter which may represent more than one sound or to a sound which may be spelled in more than one way? (k, c//ck, k) - Correct answerEquivocal What is the term for the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written letters? - Correct answer-Alphabetic Principle What is the term for the smallest unit of sound in a syllable? - Correct answer-Phoneme What is the term for the simplest form of an English word to which affixes may be added? - Correct answer-Base Word What is the term for the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language? - Correct answer-Phonology What is the term for the rhythmic flow of oral reading? - Correct answer-Prosody What is the term for the overlapping, changing, or modifying of adjacent speech sounds? Ex: hugged-hissed - Correct answer-Coarticulation What is the term for the mental activity of receiving, understanding, weighing, ordering, remembering, and examining sounds, especially speech sounds? - Correct answerAuditory Processing What is the term for the meaningful components of language? - Correct answerSemantics What is the term for the knowledge that words are made up of individual sounds? Skills included are: syllabication, rhyming, blending sounds into words, isolating beginning - Correct answer-Phonological Awareness What is the term for the initial stage of spelling in which novice writers understand that a symbol stands for a unit or units of sound and attempts to represent that sound? - Correct answer-Invented Spelling What is the term for the active part of the memory system w/a distinctly limited time element or retention? - Correct answer-Short-term Memory What is the term for the accurate and effortless word identification at the single word level? - Correct answer-Automaticity What is the term for the ability to retain the visual image of a two dimensional symbol, especially the sequence of symbols in whole words or the sequence of words in phrases? - Correct answer-Visual Memory What is the term for the ability to retain the shape of a letter through muscle movement and feel the sound as it is made? - Correct answer-Tactile-Kinesthetic Memory What is the term for the ability to listen and remember sounds, words, and sentences in sequence (listening to a song and repeating the words back)? - Correct answer-Auditory Memory What is the term for the ability to hear likenesses and differences in the sounds of phonemes and words? - Correct answer-Auditory Discrimination What is the term for the ability to decode single words correctly with the freedom from mistake or error? - Correct answer-Accuracy What is the term for the study of the characteristics of speech sounds? - Correct answer-Phonetics What is the term for the study of origins and historical development of words? - Correct answer-Etymology What is the term for the study of language and the language structure? - Correct answer-Linguistics.