ALTA CALT FINAL
EXAMINATION COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR JUST RELEASED
Question 1: Which of the following statements is true about
assessment of executive function?
Answer:
Testing may identify difficulties in paying attention, being persistent, and
remembering. Testing may identify difficulties with organization, impulse
control, and frustration. Testing may identify some reasons for academic
underachievement.
Question 2: What is difficulty with executive function?
Answer:
A possible cognitive difference that distinguishes good readers from poor
readers.
Question 3: Why is instructional intensity important for learners
with executive function difficulties?
Answer:
Repeated, consistent, and intensive practice allows learners to learn strategies
to retain information and inhibit forgetting.
Question 4: Partially blocked sounds do which of the following?
Answer:
Release the tongue, teeth or lips during production
,Question 5: A student misreads splint as split. What does a teacher
do to build the student's accuracy?
Answer:
Ask the student to name the letters in the word.
Question 6: Which set of words contains two types of syllables?
Answer:
Shirt, sheet, short, shout
Question 7: A student struggles to read the word helpfulness. What
should the teacher ask to build the student's accuracy?
Answer:
Are there any prefixes or suffixes?
Question 8: Which set of words contains all irregular words?
Answer:
Heart, their, once, been
Question 9: How many phonemes are in the word extinct?
Answer:
Eight
Question 10: Which spelling error would receive a 3 using the
spelling rubric?
,Answer:
Tardee for tardy
Question 11: A student spells the word typhoon as tifoon. To
promote spelling accuracy, the teacher does what?
Answer:
Reminds the student that the word is of Greek origin
Question 12: How many words in this sentence follow the most
frequent and reliable spelling patters for a sound with more than
one spelling? Such clever kids kept the kite in the sky.
Answer:
Five
Question 13: How many spelling rules are represented in this
sentence? The silly woman was hitting the flies with a hammer.
Answer:
Four
Question 14: How do periodic tune-ups in manuscript and/or
cursive, in which students practice writing the alphabet from
memory, benefit students?
Answer:
Without periodic practice, handwriting becomes less legible and/or more
efforful
Question 15: What are reasons teaching handwriting has value?
, Answer:
Other people can more easily read what a student has written. It helps in letter
recognition that relates to reading. Teacher judge performance more
positively.
Question 16: What are the lessons to be learned from research for
handwriting?
Answer:
Handwriting enhances letter recognition and leads to improved word reading.
Cursive writing link letters into word spelling units. Handwriting as a tool in
written language enhances learning.
Question 17: Which of the following are part of a multimodal
approach to handwriting?
Answer:
Visual input from seeing the letter form and Auditory input from hearing letter
names and sounds are part of a multimodal approach to handwriting.
Question 18: Which of the following aspects of reading fluency has
grown in emphasis since 2000?
Answer:
Accuracy and Rate
Question 19: Which of the following is NOT accurate when
considering fluency?
Answer:
EXAMINATION COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR JUST RELEASED
Question 1: Which of the following statements is true about
assessment of executive function?
Answer:
Testing may identify difficulties in paying attention, being persistent, and
remembering. Testing may identify difficulties with organization, impulse
control, and frustration. Testing may identify some reasons for academic
underachievement.
Question 2: What is difficulty with executive function?
Answer:
A possible cognitive difference that distinguishes good readers from poor
readers.
Question 3: Why is instructional intensity important for learners
with executive function difficulties?
Answer:
Repeated, consistent, and intensive practice allows learners to learn strategies
to retain information and inhibit forgetting.
Question 4: Partially blocked sounds do which of the following?
Answer:
Release the tongue, teeth or lips during production
,Question 5: A student misreads splint as split. What does a teacher
do to build the student's accuracy?
Answer:
Ask the student to name the letters in the word.
Question 6: Which set of words contains two types of syllables?
Answer:
Shirt, sheet, short, shout
Question 7: A student struggles to read the word helpfulness. What
should the teacher ask to build the student's accuracy?
Answer:
Are there any prefixes or suffixes?
Question 8: Which set of words contains all irregular words?
Answer:
Heart, their, once, been
Question 9: How many phonemes are in the word extinct?
Answer:
Eight
Question 10: Which spelling error would receive a 3 using the
spelling rubric?
,Answer:
Tardee for tardy
Question 11: A student spells the word typhoon as tifoon. To
promote spelling accuracy, the teacher does what?
Answer:
Reminds the student that the word is of Greek origin
Question 12: How many words in this sentence follow the most
frequent and reliable spelling patters for a sound with more than
one spelling? Such clever kids kept the kite in the sky.
Answer:
Five
Question 13: How many spelling rules are represented in this
sentence? The silly woman was hitting the flies with a hammer.
Answer:
Four
Question 14: How do periodic tune-ups in manuscript and/or
cursive, in which students practice writing the alphabet from
memory, benefit students?
Answer:
Without periodic practice, handwriting becomes less legible and/or more
efforful
Question 15: What are reasons teaching handwriting has value?
, Answer:
Other people can more easily read what a student has written. It helps in letter
recognition that relates to reading. Teacher judge performance more
positively.
Question 16: What are the lessons to be learned from research for
handwriting?
Answer:
Handwriting enhances letter recognition and leads to improved word reading.
Cursive writing link letters into word spelling units. Handwriting as a tool in
written language enhances learning.
Question 17: Which of the following are part of a multimodal
approach to handwriting?
Answer:
Visual input from seeing the letter form and Auditory input from hearing letter
names and sounds are part of a multimodal approach to handwriting.
Question 18: Which of the following aspects of reading fluency has
grown in emphasis since 2000?
Answer:
Accuracy and Rate
Question 19: Which of the following is NOT accurate when
considering fluency?
Answer:
