CALT EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.

CALT EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS. VERIFIED
2025/2026.




Rhyming - ANS One of the first phonological awareness skills to develop


Blending & segmenting at syllable level - ANS Develops at 3-4 years


Segmenting phonemes - ANS Develops at 4-5 years


Isolating beginning sound in words, segmenting phonemes in CVC words - ANS Develops in
kindergarten


Segmenting words with consonant blends - ANS Develops in first grade


Receptive oral language - ANS Listening


Expressive oral language - ANS Speaking


Receptive written language - ANS Reading


Expressive written language - ANS Writing
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, __ letters representing __ phonemes - ANS 26, 44


5 vowel letters, __ vowel sounds - ANS 15


Long vowels - ANS Tense Vowels. (Beet, bait, boat, boot, bite, boy, bout) (a, e, i, o, u, oy, ou,
oo)


Short vowels - ANS Lax vowels - pat, pet, pit, pot, put, putt (a, e, i ,o, u, oo)


Fricatives - ANS produced by a constant flow of air through the vocal tract (f and v)


Affricates - ANS ch/j


Glides - ANS W, y


Liquids - ANS l, r


Alphabetic principle - ANS an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the
sounds of spoken language


Six syllable types - ANS closed, open, VCe, C+le, R controlled, vowel pairs


Semantics - ANS Language content— meaning of words and the relationship between and
among words


Pragmatics - ANS Language use— reasons, codes/styles, conversation rules


Phonology - ANS the study of speech sounds in language

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