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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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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