CALT Exam Study Guide 2025 With Correct Answers

CALT Exam Study Guide 2025 With
Correct Answers




Rhyming - correct answer One of the first phonological awareness skills to develop
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Blending & segmenting at syllable level - correct answer Develops at 3-4 years
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Segmenting phonemes - correct answer Develops at 4-5 years
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Isolating beginning sound in words, segmenting phonemes in CVC words - correct answer Develops in
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kindergarten



Segmenting words with consonant blends - correct answer Develops in first grade
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Receptive oral language - correct answer Listening
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Expressive oral language - correct answer Speaking
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Receptive written language - correct answer Reading
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Expressive written language - correct answer Writing
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, __ letters representing __ phonemes - correct answer 26, 44
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5 vowel letters, __ vowel sounds - correct answer 15
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Long vowels - correct answer Tense Vowels. (Beet, bait, boat, boot, bite, boy, bout) (a, e, i, o, u, oy, ou, oo)
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Short vowels - correct answer Lax vowels - pat, pet, pit, pot, put, putt (a, e, i ,o, u, oo)
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Fricatives - correct answer produced by a constant flow of air through the vocal tract (f and v)
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Affricates - correct answer ch/j s s s s




Glides - correct answer W, y
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Liquids - correct answer l, r
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Alphabetic principle - correct answer an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of
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Six syllable types - correct answer closed, open, VCe, C+le, R controlled, vowel pairs
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Semantics - correct answer Language content— meaning of words and the relationship between and among
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words



Pragmatics - correct answer Language use— reasons, codes/styles, conversation rules
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Phonology - correct answer the study of speech sounds in language
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