ALTA COMPETENCY COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● active learning
Answer: learning in which the learner mentally searches for connections
between new and already known information
●● allophone
Answer: a variation of a speech sound (/t/ in top, stop, spits, swift)
●● analytic
Answer: pertaining to instruction or a process that separates WHOLE
into its PARTS. Analytic phonics separates a whole word into its parts so
students can deduce the phonics relationships of the separate
orthographic patterns
●● angular gyrus
Answer: an area of the brain for visual-verbal associations
●● anomaly
Answer: irregularity; deviation from the common notion of fitness or
order
,●● ARD
Answer: advanced reading deck; shows only the letter
●● auditory discrimination
Answer: Necessary to "break the code" for reading. It involves being
able to perceive the differences between speech sounds and to sequence
these sounds into meaningful words.
●● base word
Answer: the simplest form of an English word; a word without affixes,
such as spell
●● benchmark measures
Answer: progress measurement administered at the end of each
schedule, when students have had enough practice
●● breve
Answer: a diacritical marking that indicates a short vowel sound
●● Broca's area
Answer: posterior portion of the frontal lobe that is in charge of
phonological processing and semantics of language. This are in the front
, left of the brain is responsible for EXPRESSIVE language - articulating
spoken words and analyzing words
●● Broca's aphasia
Answer: person cannot get the words out but understands
●● cedilla
Answer: a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it
is pronounced as an s
●● chameleon prefix
Answer: a prefix whose final consonant changes based on the initial
letter of the root (in- changes to ir- before regular, irregular); done for
euphony
●● circumflex
Answer: a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in a combination to
indicate accented syllable
●● coarticulation
Answer: adjacent sounds often are spoken in such a way that one
phoneme seems to overlap, is changed by, and/or modifies another.
Coarticulation is the way the brain organizes sequences of vowels and
consonants, interweaving the individual movements necessary for each
EXAM STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● active learning
Answer: learning in which the learner mentally searches for connections
between new and already known information
●● allophone
Answer: a variation of a speech sound (/t/ in top, stop, spits, swift)
●● analytic
Answer: pertaining to instruction or a process that separates WHOLE
into its PARTS. Analytic phonics separates a whole word into its parts so
students can deduce the phonics relationships of the separate
orthographic patterns
●● angular gyrus
Answer: an area of the brain for visual-verbal associations
●● anomaly
Answer: irregularity; deviation from the common notion of fitness or
order
,●● ARD
Answer: advanced reading deck; shows only the letter
●● auditory discrimination
Answer: Necessary to "break the code" for reading. It involves being
able to perceive the differences between speech sounds and to sequence
these sounds into meaningful words.
●● base word
Answer: the simplest form of an English word; a word without affixes,
such as spell
●● benchmark measures
Answer: progress measurement administered at the end of each
schedule, when students have had enough practice
●● breve
Answer: a diacritical marking that indicates a short vowel sound
●● Broca's area
Answer: posterior portion of the frontal lobe that is in charge of
phonological processing and semantics of language. This are in the front
, left of the brain is responsible for EXPRESSIVE language - articulating
spoken words and analyzing words
●● Broca's aphasia
Answer: person cannot get the words out but understands
●● cedilla
Answer: a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it
is pronounced as an s
●● chameleon prefix
Answer: a prefix whose final consonant changes based on the initial
letter of the root (in- changes to ir- before regular, irregular); done for
euphony
●● circumflex
Answer: a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in a combination to
indicate accented syllable
●● coarticulation
Answer: adjacent sounds often are spoken in such a way that one
phoneme seems to overlap, is changed by, and/or modifies another.
Coarticulation is the way the brain organizes sequences of vowels and
consonants, interweaving the individual movements necessary for each
