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CALP Terminology Guide (2025/2026) – 100+ Essential Terms with Definitions | Phonological Awareness, Linguistics, Dyslexia, Reading Instruction, Educational Law & Assessment

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This A+ certified terminology guide compiles over 100 essential terms and definitions relevant to the Certified Academic Language Practitioner (CALP) certification and structured literacy instruction, specifically aligned with the 2025/2026 academic cycle. Designed as a comprehensive reference and revision tool, this document breaks down the critical language, assessment, and instructional terminology needed to master academic language therapy and reading intervention. It covers: Foundational phonological and phonemic concepts (e.g., digraphs, diphthongs, schwa, r-controlled vowels) Linguistic terms including morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and orthography Multisensory Structured Language Education (MSLE) concepts such as encoding, decoding, guided discovery, and VAKT modalities Diagnostic and educational testing frameworks: norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, curriculum-referenced tests, formative/summative data Key reading interventions and special education law (IDEA, IEP, dyslexia, strephosymbolia, alexia) Strategies and methodologies for supporting students with reading and language difficulties (Orton-Gillingham, Fernald Method, metacognitive strategies) Highly recommended for: Courses: CALP Certification Prep, Language Development, Reading Intervention, Educational Assessment, Multisensory Instruction Programs: Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA), Structured Literacy Training, Special Education Credentialing Students and Professionals: Reading specialists, academic language therapists, speech-language pathologists, special educators, and literacy coaches This resource is particularly valuable for exam prep and professional development, offering clear and accessible definitions of complex terms used across educational linguistics and structured literacy domains. Keywords: CALP terminology, phonological awareness, MSLE, structured literacy, Orton-Gillingham, academic language therapy, special education law, IDEA, dyslexia terms, morphemes, phonemes, educational assessments, reading instruction, diagnostic language, literacy intervention, ALTA certification

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active learning - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔learning in which the learner mentally searches

for connections between new and already known information


allophones - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔slight variations in production of vowels or

consonants that are predictable variants of a phoneme ex: a in fast and tank


alphabetic language - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔language, such as English, in which letters

are used systematically to represent speech sounds, or phonemes


alphabetic principle - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the concept, understood by readers, that the

letters on a page represent or map onto the sounds in spoken words


analytic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔whole into its parts ex: spelling. top down

, ASAP- mnemonic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Accent/ Number of Syllables/ Adjacent

Letters/ Position in word


auditory discovery - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔listening and responding to guided questions

to discover new information, such as when students echo words dictated by the

teacher to discover a new common sound


chameleon prefix - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a prefix whose final consonant changes based

on the initial letter of the base word or root ex: in is ir in irregular


choral reading - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔reading in which the instructor and the students

read the passage aloud together


comprehension monitoring - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the active awareness of whether one

is understand or remembering text being processed


connors scale - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔utilized to help rate ADD and ADHD


Browns is another scale


cooperative learning - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔instructional approach in which students

work together rather than compete to solve a problem or to complete a task

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