CALT Test – Terms 100% Correct!!
Strephosymbolia - ANSWERSmeans twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics - ANSWERSthe study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - ANSWERSthe ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - ANSWERSawareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - ANSWERSinstruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - ANSWERSexplicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - ANSWERSthe understanding that spoken sounds are represented
in print by written letters
phonology - ANSWERSthe rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency - ANSWERSreading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody - ANSWERSthe rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - ANSWERSset of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
syntax - ANSWERSsentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - ANSWERScontent of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
phoneme - ANSWERSsmallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - ANSWERSsound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
orthography - ANSWERSthe spelling of written language
orthographic memory - ANSWERSmemory of letter patterns and word spellings
, metalinguistics - ANSWERSawareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - ANSWERSa method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - ANSWERSEnable a person to learn for themselves
grapheme - ANSWERSa letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - ANSWERSword recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to
determine a word
blending - ANSWERSfusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units
reading - ANSWERSsymbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - 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 - ANSWERSthe study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that
make words
fricative - ANSWERSa sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
aspiration - ANSWERSpuff of air
Rapid letter naming - ANSWERSkey to automatic word recognition
decoding and encoding - ANSWERSrefer to applying the skills of analytic and synthetic
learning
decoding - ANSWERSrecognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound correspondence,
and blending sounds into a words
McGuffey Readers - ANSWERSFormal reading instruction was based on "phonics"
used at the beginning of the 20th Century
Dick & Jane ( "Look/Say" Method ) - ANSWERSThought that children would make more
rapid progress reading if they identified whole words at a glance. Used from 1930s -
1960s.
Digraph - ANSWERStwo letters that come together to make one sound
Strephosymbolia - ANSWERSmeans twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics - ANSWERSthe study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - ANSWERSthe ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - ANSWERSawareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - ANSWERSinstruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - ANSWERSexplicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - ANSWERSthe understanding that spoken sounds are represented
in print by written letters
phonology - ANSWERSthe rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency - ANSWERSreading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody - ANSWERSthe rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - ANSWERSset of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
syntax - ANSWERSsentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - ANSWERScontent of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
phoneme - ANSWERSsmallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - ANSWERSsound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
orthography - ANSWERSthe spelling of written language
orthographic memory - ANSWERSmemory of letter patterns and word spellings
, metalinguistics - ANSWERSawareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - ANSWERSa method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - ANSWERSEnable a person to learn for themselves
grapheme - ANSWERSa letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - ANSWERSword recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to
determine a word
blending - ANSWERSfusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units
reading - ANSWERSsymbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - 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 - ANSWERSthe study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that
make words
fricative - ANSWERSa sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
aspiration - ANSWERSpuff of air
Rapid letter naming - ANSWERSkey to automatic word recognition
decoding and encoding - ANSWERSrefer to applying the skills of analytic and synthetic
learning
decoding - ANSWERSrecognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound correspondence,
and blending sounds into a words
McGuffey Readers - ANSWERSFormal reading instruction was based on "phonics"
used at the beginning of the 20th Century
Dick & Jane ( "Look/Say" Method ) - ANSWERSThought that children would make more
rapid progress reading if they identified whole words at a glance. Used from 1930s -
1960s.
Digraph - ANSWERStwo letters that come together to make one sound
