Calt exam

1. alphabetic language: English; meaning symbols and letters reflect pronunciation of a sound; ESL students' first lang may not be alphabetic because they use symbols; phonological knowledge must be taught, so alphabet needs to be taught 2. Alphabetic Principle: an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken words. 3. Analytic Phonics: In this approach, instruction begins with the identification of a familiar word. The teacher then introduces a particular sound/spelling relationship within that familiar word 4. Synthetic Phonics: In this systematic and explicit approach, students learn to transform letters and letter combinations into sounds and then the sounds together to form recognizable words. Teach individual parts and build to whole 5. auditory discrimination: The ability to hear differences in sounds