CALT Exam Prep

CALT Exam Prep Strephosymbolia - means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for dyslexia. phonetics - the study of speech sounds in spoken language phonological awareness - the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels phonemic awareness - awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in spoken words phonics - instruction that connects sounds and letters synthetic phonics - explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words alphabetic principle - the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written letters consonant - blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed vowel - open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract phonology - the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language fluency - reading with rapidity and automaticity prosody - the rhythmic flow of oral reading pragmatics - set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of language, rules we communicate by syntax - sentence structure, grammar, usage semantics - content of language, used to express knowledge of the world around us - meaning phoneme - smallest unit of sound in a syllable spelling - sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to phoneme orthography - the spelling of written language orthographic memory - memory of letter patterns and word spellings metalinguistics - awareness of language as an entity