CALT Test / QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
What is the origin and meaning of "ang" Accurate Answer - Latin; bend
What does the Conner's Report help diagnose? Accurate Answer - ADD
Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms are _______? Accurate Answer -
Morphemes
Define prosody Accurate Answer - Flow of speech
Define euphony Accurate Answer - sound/pleasing sound
Reading nonsense words on a norm-referenced test is used to assess what?
Accurate Answer - word attack
What is the origin of the "schwa" or unstressed vowel sound? Accurate
Answer - Latin
What is the origin of the affixing of base words? Accurate Answer -
Latin
What is the origin of combining words? Accurate Answer - Greek
What is the origin of compound words? Accurate Answer - Anglo-
Saxon
What is the origin of the affixing of roots? Accurate Answer - Anglo-
Saxon
Sadly has how phonemes? Accurate Answer - 5
Sadly has how many syllables? Accurate Answer - 2
What is the base word of sadly? Accurate Answer - Sad
What is the suffix of sadly? Accurate Answer - -ly
How many morphemes does sadly have? Accurate Answer - 2
,What is sadly's word origin? Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
What is the origin of vowel pairs? Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
What is the origin of chameleon prefixes? Accurate Answer - Latin
What is the origin of the consonant cluster ch pronounced (k)?
Accurate Answer - Greek
What is the origin of Medial Y? Accurate Answer - Greek
What is the origin of the consonant pairs gn, kn, & wr? Accurate
Answer - Anglo-Saxon
What is the origin of roots that end in ct and pt? Accurate Answer -
Latin
What is the origin of initial consonant clusters rh, pt, pn, & ps?
Accurate Answer - Greek
What is the origin of common, everyday words? Accurate Answer -
Anglo-Saxon
What is the origin of the letter c, s, & t pronounced (sh)? Accurate
Answer - Latin
What is the origin of consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, & wh? Accurate
Answer - Anglo-Saxon
Who coined the term congenital word blindness? Accurate Answer -
James Hinshelwood
What are the three languages that have most influenced the English
Language? Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon/Old English, Latin, & Greek
What is the term for not being able to recall names? Accurate Answer -
dysnomia
,What is the term for letter representation of a sound- written unit?
Accurate Answer - grapheme
What is the term for the difficulty in remembering words? Accurate
Answer - dysphasia
What is the term for one who can read well but is severely unable to
comprehend? Accurate 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) Accurate Answer - analytic phonics
What is significant about 1066 AD? Accurate Answer - The Normand
invasion of England
Who saw patients unable to read, spell, or write, but could determine no
physical cause? (1920's) Accurate 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? Accurate Answer - Dr. Samuel T.
Orton
What is the term for the writing system of language?
(correct, spelling, usage) Accurate 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? Accurate Answer - analytic phonics (deductive phonics)
What is the term for a vowel and the rest of the consonants in a syllable? ex:
cat=at Accurate Answer - Rime
What is the term for the vocabulary of a language? Accurate Answer -
Lexical
What is the term for two or more letters whose sounds flow smoothly
together? Accurate 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? Accurate
Answer - Diphthong
What is the term for two adjacent letters in the same syllable that represent
one sound? Accurate Answer - Digraph
What is the term for combined sounds represented by letters to pronounce a
word? Accurate 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)
Accurate Answer - Equivocal
What is the term for the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in
print by written letters? Accurate Answer - Alphabetic Principle
What is the term for the smallest unit of sound in a syllable? Accurate
Answer - Phoneme
What is the term for the simplest form of an English word to which affixes
may be added? Accurate Answer - Base Word
What is the term for the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language? Accurate Answer - Phonology
What is the term for the rhythmic flow of oral reading? Accurate
Answer - Prosody
What is the term for the overlapping, changing, or modifying of adjacent
speech sounds? Ex: hugged->hissed Accurate Answer - Coarticulation
What is the term for the mental activity of receiving, understanding, weighing,
ordering, remembering, and examining sounds, especially speech sounds?
Accurate Answer - Auditory Processing
What is the term for the meaningful components of language? Accurate
Answer - Semantics
What is the origin and meaning of "ang" Accurate Answer - Latin; bend
What does the Conner's Report help diagnose? Accurate Answer - ADD
Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms are _______? Accurate Answer -
Morphemes
Define prosody Accurate Answer - Flow of speech
Define euphony Accurate Answer - sound/pleasing sound
Reading nonsense words on a norm-referenced test is used to assess what?
Accurate Answer - word attack
What is the origin of the "schwa" or unstressed vowel sound? Accurate
Answer - Latin
What is the origin of the affixing of base words? Accurate Answer -
Latin
What is the origin of combining words? Accurate Answer - Greek
What is the origin of compound words? Accurate Answer - Anglo-
Saxon
What is the origin of the affixing of roots? Accurate Answer - Anglo-
Saxon
Sadly has how phonemes? Accurate Answer - 5
Sadly has how many syllables? Accurate Answer - 2
What is the base word of sadly? Accurate Answer - Sad
What is the suffix of sadly? Accurate Answer - -ly
How many morphemes does sadly have? Accurate Answer - 2
,What is sadly's word origin? Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
What is the origin of vowel pairs? Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
What is the origin of chameleon prefixes? Accurate Answer - Latin
What is the origin of the consonant cluster ch pronounced (k)?
Accurate Answer - Greek
What is the origin of Medial Y? Accurate Answer - Greek
What is the origin of the consonant pairs gn, kn, & wr? Accurate
Answer - Anglo-Saxon
What is the origin of roots that end in ct and pt? Accurate Answer -
Latin
What is the origin of initial consonant clusters rh, pt, pn, & ps?
Accurate Answer - Greek
What is the origin of common, everyday words? Accurate Answer -
Anglo-Saxon
What is the origin of the letter c, s, & t pronounced (sh)? Accurate
Answer - Latin
What is the origin of consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, & wh? Accurate
Answer - Anglo-Saxon
Who coined the term congenital word blindness? Accurate Answer -
James Hinshelwood
What are the three languages that have most influenced the English
Language? Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon/Old English, Latin, & Greek
What is the term for not being able to recall names? Accurate Answer -
dysnomia
,What is the term for letter representation of a sound- written unit?
Accurate Answer - grapheme
What is the term for the difficulty in remembering words? Accurate
Answer - dysphasia
What is the term for one who can read well but is severely unable to
comprehend? Accurate 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) Accurate Answer - analytic phonics
What is significant about 1066 AD? Accurate Answer - The Normand
invasion of England
Who saw patients unable to read, spell, or write, but could determine no
physical cause? (1920's) Accurate 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? Accurate Answer - Dr. Samuel T.
Orton
What is the term for the writing system of language?
(correct, spelling, usage) Accurate 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? Accurate Answer - analytic phonics (deductive phonics)
What is the term for a vowel and the rest of the consonants in a syllable? ex:
cat=at Accurate Answer - Rime
What is the term for the vocabulary of a language? Accurate Answer -
Lexical
What is the term for two or more letters whose sounds flow smoothly
together? Accurate 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? Accurate
Answer - Diphthong
What is the term for two adjacent letters in the same syllable that represent
one sound? Accurate Answer - Digraph
What is the term for combined sounds represented by letters to pronounce a
word? Accurate 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)
Accurate Answer - Equivocal
What is the term for the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in
print by written letters? Accurate Answer - Alphabetic Principle
What is the term for the smallest unit of sound in a syllable? Accurate
Answer - Phoneme
What is the term for the simplest form of an English word to which affixes
may be added? Accurate Answer - Base Word
What is the term for the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language? Accurate Answer - Phonology
What is the term for the rhythmic flow of oral reading? Accurate
Answer - Prosody
What is the term for the overlapping, changing, or modifying of adjacent
speech sounds? Ex: hugged->hissed Accurate Answer - Coarticulation
What is the term for the mental activity of receiving, understanding, weighing,
ordering, remembering, and examining sounds, especially speech sounds?
Accurate Answer - Auditory Processing
What is the term for the meaningful components of language? Accurate
Answer - Semantics
