CALT ACTUAL EXAM |COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH EXPERT
SOLUTIONS| 2026 LATEST UPDATED| A+
Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - (answer)phonological and phonemic awareness,
phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
The Big Five - (answer)Nickname for the five essential components of effective literacy
instruction
National Reading Panel - (answer)outlined the give essential components of effective literacy
instruction in report (year 2000)
What is the importance of the sound/symbol system? - (answer)understanding sounds/symbols
enables students to sound out unfamiliar words, enables students to build orthographic patterns,
enables students to perceive larger chunks of words, and enables students to use the context more
efficiently
Sound/symbol foundation - (answer)phonemic awareness and instant letter recognition
Alphabetic Principle - (answer)a phoneme is represented by a grapheme
,phoneme - (answer)smallest unit of sound in a word which effects meaning
grapheme - (answer)letter or group of letters used to represent one sound
Reading and Written Expressive Language - (answer)the two components of Literacy Instruction
Decoding and Comprehension - (answer)the two components of reading
Mechanics and Composition/Creativity - (answer)the two components of Written Expressive
Language
Opportunities and Direct Instruction - (answer)the two components of instruction
Decoding - (answer)instant word recognition, phonemic awareness, sound/symbol association
(instant letter recognition), structural analysis, context
Listening Comprehension - (answer)oral language (most important!), world knowledge, strategic
thinking, inference making
,Fluency - (answer)bridge between decoding and comprehension
Comprehension - (answer)the ultimate goal of reading
Instant Word Recognition - (answer)acquired through repeated exposure to the word and from
over learning the patterns of language
Mechanics - (answer)sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, handwriting (writer should
be comfortable with spelling and handwriting)
composition/creativity - (answer)oral language, world knowledge, strategic thinking, inference
making
Direct instruction components - (answer)Multisensory teaching and discovery teaching
Domains of language - (answer)phonology, pragmatics, orthography, semantics, syntax,
morphology
, Interactive components of language - (answer)Form, content (great ideas), use (spelling,
grammar, etc.)
Which domains fall into form component of language? - (answer)Phonology, Morphology,
Syntax, orthography
Which domain falls into the content component of language? - (answer)semantics
Which domain falls into the use component of language? - (answer)pragmatics
Orthography is the only domain - (answer)not developed orally first-starts at the written level
with spelling
phonology - (answer)refers to the SOUND STRUCTURE of a langauge; how sounds operate. It
is the unconscious set of rules that govern speech.
Euphony - (answer)pleasant sound; when words are formed or combined to please the ear
SOLUTIONS| 2026 LATEST UPDATED| A+
Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - (answer)phonological and phonemic awareness,
phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
The Big Five - (answer)Nickname for the five essential components of effective literacy
instruction
National Reading Panel - (answer)outlined the give essential components of effective literacy
instruction in report (year 2000)
What is the importance of the sound/symbol system? - (answer)understanding sounds/symbols
enables students to sound out unfamiliar words, enables students to build orthographic patterns,
enables students to perceive larger chunks of words, and enables students to use the context more
efficiently
Sound/symbol foundation - (answer)phonemic awareness and instant letter recognition
Alphabetic Principle - (answer)a phoneme is represented by a grapheme
,phoneme - (answer)smallest unit of sound in a word which effects meaning
grapheme - (answer)letter or group of letters used to represent one sound
Reading and Written Expressive Language - (answer)the two components of Literacy Instruction
Decoding and Comprehension - (answer)the two components of reading
Mechanics and Composition/Creativity - (answer)the two components of Written Expressive
Language
Opportunities and Direct Instruction - (answer)the two components of instruction
Decoding - (answer)instant word recognition, phonemic awareness, sound/symbol association
(instant letter recognition), structural analysis, context
Listening Comprehension - (answer)oral language (most important!), world knowledge, strategic
thinking, inference making
,Fluency - (answer)bridge between decoding and comprehension
Comprehension - (answer)the ultimate goal of reading
Instant Word Recognition - (answer)acquired through repeated exposure to the word and from
over learning the patterns of language
Mechanics - (answer)sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, handwriting (writer should
be comfortable with spelling and handwriting)
composition/creativity - (answer)oral language, world knowledge, strategic thinking, inference
making
Direct instruction components - (answer)Multisensory teaching and discovery teaching
Domains of language - (answer)phonology, pragmatics, orthography, semantics, syntax,
morphology
, Interactive components of language - (answer)Form, content (great ideas), use (spelling,
grammar, etc.)
Which domains fall into form component of language? - (answer)Phonology, Morphology,
Syntax, orthography
Which domain falls into the content component of language? - (answer)semantics
Which domain falls into the use component of language? - (answer)pragmatics
Orthography is the only domain - (answer)not developed orally first-starts at the written level
with spelling
phonology - (answer)refers to the SOUND STRUCTURE of a langauge; how sounds operate. It
is the unconscious set of rules that govern speech.
Euphony - (answer)pleasant sound; when words are formed or combined to please the ear
