CALT EXAM Study Guide Questions and Answers 2024

CALT EXAM Study Guide Questions and Answers 2024 Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - CORRECT ANSWER-phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension The Big Five - CORRECT ANSWER-Nickname for the five essential components of effective literacy instruction National Reading Panel - CORRECT ANSWER-outlined the give essential components of effective literacy instruction in report (year 2000) What is the importance of the sound/symbol system? - CORRECT ANSWERunderstanding sounds/symbols enables students to sound out unfamiliar words, enables students to build orthographic patterns, enables students to perceive larger chunks of words, and enables students to use the context more efficiently Sound/symbol foundation - CORRECT ANSWER-phonemic awareness and instant letter recognition Alphabetic Principle - CORRECT ANSWER-a phoneme is represented by a grapheme phoneme - CORRECT ANSWER-smallest unit of sound in a word which effects meaning grapheme - CORRECT ANSWER-letter or group of letters used to represent one sound Reading and Written Expressive Language - CORRECT ANSWER-the two components of Literacy Instruction Decoding and Comprehension - CORRECT ANSWER-the two components of reading Mechanics and Composition/Creativity - CORRECT ANSWER-the two components of Written Expressive Language Opportunities and Direct Instruction - CORRECT ANSWER-the two components of instruction Decoding - CORRECT ANSWER-instant word recognition, phonemic awareness, sound/symbol association (instant letter recognition), structural analysis, context Listening Comprehension - CORRECT ANSWER-oral language (most important!), world knowledge, strategic thinking, inference making Fluency - CORRECT ANSWER-bridge between decoding and comprehension Comprehension - CORRECT ANSWER-the ultimate goal of reading Instant Word Recognition - CORRECT ANSWER-acquired through repeated exposure to the word and from over learning the patterns of language Mechanics - CORRECT ANSWER-sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, handwriting (writer should be comfortable with spelling and handwriting) composition/creativity - CORRECT ANSWER-oral language, world knowledge, strategic thinking, inference making Direct instruction components - CORRECT ANSWER-Multisensory teaching and discovery teaching Domains of language - CORRECT ANSWER-phonology, pragmatics, orthography, semantics, syntax, morphology Interactive components of language - CORRECT ANSWER-Form, content (great ideas), use (spelling, grammar, etc.) Which domains fall into form component of language? - CORRECT ANSWERPhonology, Morphology, Syntax, orthography Which domain falls into the content component of language? - CORRECT ANSWERsemantics Which domain falls into the