CALT ALTA ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE
SOLUTION
●● Morphology
Answer: A middle school student is unfamiliar with the meaning of the
word anthropomorphic. What linguistic knowledge would best enable
the student to understand this word?
●● Teaching pragmatics through oral language may positively impact a
student's understanding of implied meaning in written language.
Answer: What is the rationale for teaching pragmatics through the use of
oral language to prepare students to comprehend text?
●● Spelling
Answer: In addition to phonological processing, which of the following
is an essential component of an effective evaluation for dyslexia?
●● Eligibility for special education and related services
Answer: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, enacted in
1975 as PL 94-142, was updated in 1990 and reauthorized in 2004.
Under IDEA, "Specific Learning Disability" is an identifiable category
of disability with eight academic domains. Dyslexia is included as one
,condition under the SLD umbrella ensuring which of the following for
students with an identification under IDEA:
●● Naming
Answer: The component of phonological processing that includes the
skills of word retrieval from long-term memory and word recoding and
has a strong impact on reading fluency is phonological ----?
●● Working Memory
Answer: What subtype of executive function that includes the
capabilities of processing, storage, and retrieval impacts the decoding
difficulty seen with dyslexia?
●● Language Comprehension and Decoding
Answer: Which of the following factors interrelate to affect overall
reading comprehension achievement?
●● Receive written consent from the adult student, or from the parent or
legal guardian of the minor student.
Answer: What steps should an academic language therapist take if a
local school district reaches out requesting the records of a former
student?
,●● Melissa can understand 2nd grade level text that is read to her.
However, she does not attempt to read unfamiliar words on her own.
Instead, she looks at the teacher and says, "I don't know."
Answer: How can the following communication between and Academic
Language Therapist and a teacher be revised and improved? Melissa can
understand 2nd grade level text that is read to her and she does not
attempt to read unfamiliar words on her own and she looks and the
teacher and says, "I don't know."
●● Has difficulties with the phonology of language
Answer: Research suggests that the defining characteristics of dyslexia
is that a student does what?
●● Persist without explicit instruction
Answer: Impairments in phonemic awareness skills in kindergarteners
will do which of the following?
●● Systematic
Answer: Research suggests that effective phonics instruction is what?
●● Classroom language
Answer: How can academic language be described?
●● The demands of complex text
, Answer: Close reading is meant to reduce college students' challenges
related to reading because of which of the following?
●● Instruction is sequential
Answer: A teacher is planning a Structured literacy lesson for her
student. Initially, she used informal assessment to determine which
phoneme-grapheme associations the student had mastered. For new
learning, she selects the next unknown phoneme-grapheme association
in order of difficulty. Which principle of Structured Literacy does this
choice represent?
●● Grapheme to Phoneme
Answer: A teacher is delivering a Structured Literacy lesson. Within the
lesson, he presents cards with single letters printed on them and asks the
student to pronounce the associated sound. He has the student read lists
of single words as well as connected text. Which of the following do
these activities represent?
●● During reading, there is hypoactivation within the brain areas
involved in articulation and naming.
Answer: Research studies have identified differences between the brains
of individuals with and without reading disability (dyslexia). Which of
the following has NOT been reported regarding students with dyslexia?
●● Researchers have studied the efficacy of multisensory instructional
strategies
AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE
SOLUTION
●● Morphology
Answer: A middle school student is unfamiliar with the meaning of the
word anthropomorphic. What linguistic knowledge would best enable
the student to understand this word?
●● Teaching pragmatics through oral language may positively impact a
student's understanding of implied meaning in written language.
Answer: What is the rationale for teaching pragmatics through the use of
oral language to prepare students to comprehend text?
●● Spelling
Answer: In addition to phonological processing, which of the following
is an essential component of an effective evaluation for dyslexia?
●● Eligibility for special education and related services
Answer: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, enacted in
1975 as PL 94-142, was updated in 1990 and reauthorized in 2004.
Under IDEA, "Specific Learning Disability" is an identifiable category
of disability with eight academic domains. Dyslexia is included as one
,condition under the SLD umbrella ensuring which of the following for
students with an identification under IDEA:
●● Naming
Answer: The component of phonological processing that includes the
skills of word retrieval from long-term memory and word recoding and
has a strong impact on reading fluency is phonological ----?
●● Working Memory
Answer: What subtype of executive function that includes the
capabilities of processing, storage, and retrieval impacts the decoding
difficulty seen with dyslexia?
●● Language Comprehension and Decoding
Answer: Which of the following factors interrelate to affect overall
reading comprehension achievement?
●● Receive written consent from the adult student, or from the parent or
legal guardian of the minor student.
Answer: What steps should an academic language therapist take if a
local school district reaches out requesting the records of a former
student?
,●● Melissa can understand 2nd grade level text that is read to her.
However, she does not attempt to read unfamiliar words on her own.
Instead, she looks at the teacher and says, "I don't know."
Answer: How can the following communication between and Academic
Language Therapist and a teacher be revised and improved? Melissa can
understand 2nd grade level text that is read to her and she does not
attempt to read unfamiliar words on her own and she looks and the
teacher and says, "I don't know."
●● Has difficulties with the phonology of language
Answer: Research suggests that the defining characteristics of dyslexia
is that a student does what?
●● Persist without explicit instruction
Answer: Impairments in phonemic awareness skills in kindergarteners
will do which of the following?
●● Systematic
Answer: Research suggests that effective phonics instruction is what?
●● Classroom language
Answer: How can academic language be described?
●● The demands of complex text
, Answer: Close reading is meant to reduce college students' challenges
related to reading because of which of the following?
●● Instruction is sequential
Answer: A teacher is planning a Structured literacy lesson for her
student. Initially, she used informal assessment to determine which
phoneme-grapheme associations the student had mastered. For new
learning, she selects the next unknown phoneme-grapheme association
in order of difficulty. Which principle of Structured Literacy does this
choice represent?
●● Grapheme to Phoneme
Answer: A teacher is delivering a Structured Literacy lesson. Within the
lesson, he presents cards with single letters printed on them and asks the
student to pronounce the associated sound. He has the student read lists
of single words as well as connected text. Which of the following do
these activities represent?
●● During reading, there is hypoactivation within the brain areas
involved in articulation and naming.
Answer: Research studies have identified differences between the brains
of individuals with and without reading disability (dyslexia). Which of
the following has NOT been reported regarding students with dyslexia?
●● Researchers have studied the efficacy of multisensory instructional
strategies
