CALT EXAM STUDY GUIDE / QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Strephosymbolia Accurate Answer - means twisted symbols. The first
term Orton used for dyslexia.
phonetics Accurate Answer - the study of speech sounds in spoken
language
phonological awareness Accurate Answer - the ability to focus on units
of sound in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme
levels
phonemic awareness Accurate Answer - awareness of speech sounds
or phonemes in spoken words
phonics Accurate Answer - instruction that connects sounds and
letters
synthetic phonics Accurate Answer - explicitly teaches individual
grapheme-phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form
syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle Accurate Answer - the understanding that spoken
sounds are represented in print by written letters
consonant Accurate Answer - blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a
class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel Accurate Answer - open and voiced sounds - a class of open
speech sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology Accurate Answer - the rules that determine how sounds are
used in spoken language
fluency Accurate Answer - reading with rapidity and automaticity with
prosody
,prosody Accurate Answer - the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics Accurate Answer - set of rules that dictate communicative
behavior and use of language, rules we communicate by
syntax Accurate Answer - sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics Accurate Answer - content of language, used to express
knowledge of the world around us - meaning
phoneme Accurate Answer - smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling Accurate Answer - sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme,
connect grapheme to phoneme
orthography Accurate Answer - the spelling of written language
orthographic memory Accurate Answer - memory of letter patterns
and word spellings
metalinguistics Accurate Answer - awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery Accurate Answer - a method of leading students to
new learning through questioning
Heuristic Accurate Answer - means to discover by demonstration
grapheme Accurate Answer - a letter or letter cluster that represents a
single speech sound
decoding Accurate Answer - word recognition in which the phonetic
code is broken down to determine a word
blending Accurate Answer - fusing individual sounds, syllables or
words into meaningful units
reading Accurate Answer - symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
, morpheme Accurate Answer - the smallest meaningful unit of language
- a suffix, prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as
cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability
greatly depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology Accurate Answer - the study of word formation patterns,
meaningful units that make words
fricative Accurate Answer - a sound produced by forcing air through a
narrow opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound Accurate Answer - a sound produced by forcing air out
through th nose / n / / m /
continuant sound Accurate Answer - a sound prolonged in its
production / m / / s / / f /
stop consonant sound Accurate Answer - a sound obstructed / they
must be clipped off / b / / d /
aspiration Accurate Answer - puff of air
Norman Invasion Accurate Answer - 1066 A.D., had a great effect on
English language, William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class
brought words like furniture, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought
monks who added w and u, also the dot for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet
complete at 26 letters
Number words one to a thousand Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals Accurate Answer - Anglo-
Saxon
Outer body parts Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Strephosymbolia Accurate Answer - means twisted symbols. The first
term Orton used for dyslexia.
phonetics Accurate Answer - the study of speech sounds in spoken
language
phonological awareness Accurate Answer - the ability to focus on units
of sound in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme
levels
phonemic awareness Accurate Answer - awareness of speech sounds
or phonemes in spoken words
phonics Accurate Answer - instruction that connects sounds and
letters
synthetic phonics Accurate Answer - explicitly teaches individual
grapheme-phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form
syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle Accurate Answer - the understanding that spoken
sounds are represented in print by written letters
consonant Accurate Answer - blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a
class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel Accurate Answer - open and voiced sounds - a class of open
speech sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology Accurate Answer - the rules that determine how sounds are
used in spoken language
fluency Accurate Answer - reading with rapidity and automaticity with
prosody
,prosody Accurate Answer - the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics Accurate Answer - set of rules that dictate communicative
behavior and use of language, rules we communicate by
syntax Accurate Answer - sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics Accurate Answer - content of language, used to express
knowledge of the world around us - meaning
phoneme Accurate Answer - smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling Accurate Answer - sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme,
connect grapheme to phoneme
orthography Accurate Answer - the spelling of written language
orthographic memory Accurate Answer - memory of letter patterns
and word spellings
metalinguistics Accurate Answer - awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery Accurate Answer - a method of leading students to
new learning through questioning
Heuristic Accurate Answer - means to discover by demonstration
grapheme Accurate Answer - a letter or letter cluster that represents a
single speech sound
decoding Accurate Answer - word recognition in which the phonetic
code is broken down to determine a word
blending Accurate Answer - fusing individual sounds, syllables or
words into meaningful units
reading Accurate Answer - symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
, morpheme Accurate Answer - the smallest meaningful unit of language
- a suffix, prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as
cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability
greatly depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology Accurate Answer - the study of word formation patterns,
meaningful units that make words
fricative Accurate Answer - a sound produced by forcing air through a
narrow opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound Accurate Answer - a sound produced by forcing air out
through th nose / n / / m /
continuant sound Accurate Answer - a sound prolonged in its
production / m / / s / / f /
stop consonant sound Accurate Answer - a sound obstructed / they
must be clipped off / b / / d /
aspiration Accurate Answer - puff of air
Norman Invasion Accurate Answer - 1066 A.D., had a great effect on
English language, William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class
brought words like furniture, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought
monks who added w and u, also the dot for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet
complete at 26 letters
Number words one to a thousand Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals Accurate Answer - Anglo-
Saxon
Outer body parts Accurate Answer - Anglo-Saxon
