CALP test study terminology and guide Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
2 Biggest Predictors of Reading Success Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ P.A. & Letter Naming
Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 3 Layers of English language
Latin
55% of English words Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ -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
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-Vce: scribe, vene
Suffixes:-cial, -cious, -cient, -tial, -tious, -tient
Anglo-Saxon
20%-25% of English words Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Name, Shape, Sound, Feel
How many syllables are in the word, "unpacked" Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 2
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4 Components of a lesson plan activity Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 1. Emphasis
2. Preparation
3. Practice
4. Closure
6 Syllable types Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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. Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ For
about 84% of English words, spelling is completely predictable from regular rules.
History of English Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ -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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