CALT Exam Study Guide Questions and Correct
Answers Assured 100% Plus Pass
__ letters representing __ phonemes - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -26, 44
15-20% - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Percentage of people who have symptoms of dyslexia
1968 - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -World Federation of Neurology approves dyslexia definition
5 vowel letters, __ vowel sounds - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -15
85% - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -The percentage of LD students who have a primary learning
disability in reading and language processing
Affricates - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -ch/j
Alexia - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -the loss of the ability to read, usually the result of brain
injury
Alphabetic principle - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -an understanding that letters and letter
patterns represent the sounds of spoken language
Alveolar - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Articulation made with the ridge behind the teeth
Angular gyrus - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -transforms visual representations into an auditory
code
Anna Gillingham and Bessie Stillman - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Developed a phonics
approach following Orrin's theories using V-A-K instruction
, Apraxia - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -A disorder that prevents certain complex muscular
movements, caused by damage to the brain
Aylett Cox - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Developed Alphabetic Phonics curriculum with Dr.
Waites and the staff at Scottish Rite. She built off of Gillingham, adding key words and
discovery learning.
Base word - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -The simplest form of an English word
Blending & segmenting at syllable level - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Develops at 3-4 years
Child learns relation btwn letters and sounds, printed and spoken words; can read simple text
(grades 1-2.5) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Jean Chall's Stages of Reading Development, stage
1-initial reading and decoding
Child pretends to read, can name letters of alphabet (6 mos-6 yrs) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -
Jean Chall's stages of reading development, Stage 0-pre-reading
Child reads critically from a broad range of complex materials (high school) - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Jean Chall's stage 4- Reading from Multiple Viewpoints
Child reads simple stories with increasing fluency (grades 2.5-3) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -
Jean Chall's Stages of Reading Development, stage 2-confirmation and fluency
Congenital word blindness - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Dr. W. Pringle Morgan and Dr. James
Hinshelwood used this term to describe an inability to learn to read despite no injury or illness —
1896
Answers Assured 100% Plus Pass
__ letters representing __ phonemes - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -26, 44
15-20% - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Percentage of people who have symptoms of dyslexia
1968 - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -World Federation of Neurology approves dyslexia definition
5 vowel letters, __ vowel sounds - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -15
85% - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -The percentage of LD students who have a primary learning
disability in reading and language processing
Affricates - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -ch/j
Alexia - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -the loss of the ability to read, usually the result of brain
injury
Alphabetic principle - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -an understanding that letters and letter
patterns represent the sounds of spoken language
Alveolar - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Articulation made with the ridge behind the teeth
Angular gyrus - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -transforms visual representations into an auditory
code
Anna Gillingham and Bessie Stillman - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Developed a phonics
approach following Orrin's theories using V-A-K instruction
, Apraxia - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -A disorder that prevents certain complex muscular
movements, caused by damage to the brain
Aylett Cox - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Developed Alphabetic Phonics curriculum with Dr.
Waites and the staff at Scottish Rite. She built off of Gillingham, adding key words and
discovery learning.
Base word - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -The simplest form of an English word
Blending & segmenting at syllable level - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Develops at 3-4 years
Child learns relation btwn letters and sounds, printed and spoken words; can read simple text
(grades 1-2.5) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Jean Chall's Stages of Reading Development, stage
1-initial reading and decoding
Child pretends to read, can name letters of alphabet (6 mos-6 yrs) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -
Jean Chall's stages of reading development, Stage 0-pre-reading
Child reads critically from a broad range of complex materials (high school) - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Jean Chall's stage 4- Reading from Multiple Viewpoints
Child reads simple stories with increasing fluency (grades 2.5-3) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -
Jean Chall's Stages of Reading Development, stage 2-confirmation and fluency
Congenital word blindness - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Dr. W. Pringle Morgan and Dr. James
Hinshelwood used this term to describe an inability to learn to read despite no injury or illness —
1896
