CALP Test Study Terminology and Guide
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2 Biggest Predictors of Reading Success - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔P.A. & Letter Naming
Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔3 Layers of English language
Greek
11% of English words - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Specialized words used mostly in science,
combining forms compounded atmosphere, thermometer, chromosomes,
microscope, physiology
-Closed: graph, gram
-Open: photo, micro
-ph for /f/
-ch for /k/
,-y for /short i/
-pn, pt
Latin
55% of English words - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Technical sophisticated words, used in
more formal contexts-literature and textbooks affixes added to roots audience,
contradict, disruptive, retract, survival, transfer
-Affix: construction, erupting, conductor
-Multisyllabic
-Schwa is prevalent;
-Few vowel digraphs
-R-controlled: port, form
-Vce: scribe, vene
Suffixes:-cial, -cious, -cient, -tial, -tious, -tient
Anglo-Saxon
20%-25% of English words - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Short common every day, often 1-
syllable words that are familiar words, words used in ordinary life and often found
,in school primer books. Compound Words! Many have non-phonetic spellings
such as blood, cry, laugh, mother, run, wash
-Closed: mad
-Open: go
-VCe: lame
-vowel team: boat
-Consonant -le: tumble
-R-controlled: barn
-Consonant pairs: gn, kn, wr
-final stable syllables ble, zle, kle
4 characteristics of a letter - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Name, Shape, Sound, Feel
How many syllables are in the word, "unpacked" - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔2
4 Components of a lesson plan activity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Emphasis
2. Preparation
3. Practice
4. Closure
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, 6 Syllable types - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Closed
2. Open
3. Vowel consonant e
4. Two adjacent vowels
5. Vowel r
6. Final Stable Syllable
Percentage of English words that have predictable spelling from regular rules. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔For about 84% of English words, spelling is completely
predictable from regular rules.
History of English - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Norman Conquest (William the Conquerer)
resulted in more than 10,000 French words. Anglo-French compound words:
gentlemen, faithful. Spelling based on French such as the "our" in journey, ch
pronounced as /sh/ and the que as /k/ in antique. The conquest resulted in a decline
of Old English. During Mature Middle English, Chaucer wrote The Canterbury
Tales in the late 1300s (Renaissance period) The Latin vocabulary conveyed both
abstract and humanistic ideas. Index, library, medicine, instant. Latin prefixes: ad-,
pro-. Suffixes:
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Correct Answers | Latest Update
2 Biggest Predictors of Reading Success - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔P.A. & Letter Naming
Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔3 Layers of English language
Greek
11% of English words - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Specialized words used mostly in science,
combining forms compounded atmosphere, thermometer, chromosomes,
microscope, physiology
-Closed: graph, gram
-Open: photo, micro
-ph for /f/
-ch for /k/
,-y for /short i/
-pn, pt
Latin
55% of English words - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Technical sophisticated words, used in
more formal contexts-literature and textbooks affixes added to roots audience,
contradict, disruptive, retract, survival, transfer
-Affix: construction, erupting, conductor
-Multisyllabic
-Schwa is prevalent;
-Few vowel digraphs
-R-controlled: port, form
-Vce: scribe, vene
Suffixes:-cial, -cious, -cient, -tial, -tious, -tient
Anglo-Saxon
20%-25% of English words - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Short common every day, often 1-
syllable words that are familiar words, words used in ordinary life and often found
,in school primer books. Compound Words! Many have non-phonetic spellings
such as blood, cry, laugh, mother, run, wash
-Closed: mad
-Open: go
-VCe: lame
-vowel team: boat
-Consonant -le: tumble
-R-controlled: barn
-Consonant pairs: gn, kn, wr
-final stable syllables ble, zle, kle
4 characteristics of a letter - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Name, Shape, Sound, Feel
How many syllables are in the word, "unpacked" - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔2
4 Components of a lesson plan activity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Emphasis
2. Preparation
3. Practice
4. Closure
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, 6 Syllable types - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Closed
2. Open
3. Vowel consonant e
4. Two adjacent vowels
5. Vowel r
6. Final Stable Syllable
Percentage of English words that have predictable spelling from regular rules. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔For about 84% of English words, spelling is completely
predictable from regular rules.
History of English - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Norman Conquest (William the Conquerer)
resulted in more than 10,000 French words. Anglo-French compound words:
gentlemen, faithful. Spelling based on French such as the "our" in journey, ch
pronounced as /sh/ and the que as /k/ in antique. The conquest resulted in a decline
of Old English. During Mature Middle English, Chaucer wrote The Canterbury
Tales in the late 1300s (Renaissance period) The Latin vocabulary conveyed both
abstract and humanistic ideas. Index, library, medicine, instant. Latin prefixes: ad-,
pro-. Suffixes:
