CALT Exam Prep Questions and Answers 2024
Strephosymbolia - Correct Answersmeans twisted symbols. The first term Orton
used for dyslexia.
phonetics - Correct Answersthe study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - Correct Answersthe ability to focus on units of sound in
spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - Correct Answersawareness of speech sounds or phonemes
in spoken words
phonics - Correct Answersinstruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - Correct Answersexplicitly teaches individual grapheme-
phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole
words
alphabetic principle - Correct Answersthe understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
consonant - Correct Answersblocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of
speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - Correct Answersopen and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology - Correct Answersthe rules that determine how sounds are used in
spoken language
fluency - Correct Answersreading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody - Correct Answersthe rhythmic flow of oral reading
,pragmatics - Correct Answersset of rules that dictate communicative behavior and
use of language, rules we communicate by
syntax - Correct Answerssentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - Correct Answerscontent of language, used to express knowledge of
the world around us - meaning
phoneme - Correct Answerssmallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - Correct Answerssound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography - Correct Answersthe spelling of written language
orthographic memory - Correct Answersmemory of letter patterns and word
spellings
metalinguistics - Correct Answersawareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - Correct Answersa method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic - Correct Answersmeans to discover by demonstration
grapheme - Correct Answersa letter or letter cluster that represents a single
speech sound
decoding - Correct Answersword recognition in which the phonetic code is broken
down to determine a word
blending - Correct Answersfusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
reading - Correct Answerssymbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
, morpheme - Correct Answersthe smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix,
prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability greatly
depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology - Correct Answersthe study of word formation patterns, meaningful
units that make words
fricative - Correct Answersa sound produced by forcing air through a narrow
opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound - Correct Answersa sound produced by forcing air out through th
nose / n / / m /
continuant sound - Correct Answersa sound prolonged in its production / m / / s /
/f/
stop consonant sound - Correct Answersa sound obstructed / they must be
clipped off / b / / d /
aspiration - Correct Answerspuff of air
Norman Invasion - Correct Answers1066 A.D., had a great effect on English
language, William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words
like furniture, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who added w
and u, also the dot for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet complete at 26 letters
Number words one to a thousand - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon
Outer body parts - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon
Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work - Correct
AnswersAnglo-Saxon
Strephosymbolia - Correct Answersmeans twisted symbols. The first term Orton
used for dyslexia.
phonetics - Correct Answersthe study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - Correct Answersthe ability to focus on units of sound in
spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - Correct Answersawareness of speech sounds or phonemes
in spoken words
phonics - Correct Answersinstruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - Correct Answersexplicitly teaches individual grapheme-
phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole
words
alphabetic principle - Correct Answersthe understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
consonant - Correct Answersblocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of
speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - Correct Answersopen and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology - Correct Answersthe rules that determine how sounds are used in
spoken language
fluency - Correct Answersreading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody - Correct Answersthe rhythmic flow of oral reading
,pragmatics - Correct Answersset of rules that dictate communicative behavior and
use of language, rules we communicate by
syntax - Correct Answerssentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - Correct Answerscontent of language, used to express knowledge of
the world around us - meaning
phoneme - Correct Answerssmallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - Correct Answerssound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography - Correct Answersthe spelling of written language
orthographic memory - Correct Answersmemory of letter patterns and word
spellings
metalinguistics - Correct Answersawareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - Correct Answersa method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic - Correct Answersmeans to discover by demonstration
grapheme - Correct Answersa letter or letter cluster that represents a single
speech sound
decoding - Correct Answersword recognition in which the phonetic code is broken
down to determine a word
blending - Correct Answersfusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
reading - Correct Answerssymbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
, morpheme - Correct Answersthe smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix,
prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability greatly
depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology - Correct Answersthe study of word formation patterns, meaningful
units that make words
fricative - Correct Answersa sound produced by forcing air through a narrow
opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound - Correct Answersa sound produced by forcing air out through th
nose / n / / m /
continuant sound - Correct Answersa sound prolonged in its production / m / / s /
/f/
stop consonant sound - Correct Answersa sound obstructed / they must be
clipped off / b / / d /
aspiration - Correct Answerspuff of air
Norman Invasion - Correct Answers1066 A.D., had a great effect on English
language, William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words
like furniture, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who added w
and u, also the dot for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet complete at 26 letters
Number words one to a thousand - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon
Outer body parts - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon
Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work - Correct
AnswersAnglo-Saxon
