CALT 2024/2025 ACTUAL EXAM PREP QUESTIONS
AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS|| GRADED A
1. Strephosymbolia means twisted symbols. The first term Orton
used for dyslexia.
2. phonetics the study of speech sounds in spoken language
3. phonological awareness the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and
phoneme levels
4. phonemic awareness awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
5. phonics instruction that connects sounds and letters
6. synthetic phonics explicitly teaches individual
grapheme-phoneme correspondences before
they are blended to form syllables or whole
words
7. alphabetic principle the understanding that spoken sounds are rep-
resented in print by written letters
8. consonant blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of
speech sounds with air flow that is constricted
or obstructed
9. vowel open and voiced sounds - a class of open
speech sounds produced by the passage of air
through an open vocal tract
10. phonology the rules that determine how sounds are used
in spoken language
11. fluency reading with rapidity and automaticity with
prosody
12. prosody the rhythmic flow of oral reading
13. pragmatics set of rules that dictate communicative behavior
and use of language, rules we communicate by
, CALT 2024/2025 ACTUAL EXAM PREP QUESTIONS
AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS|| GRADED A
14. syntax sentence structure, grammar, usage
15. semantics content of language, used to express knowl-
edge of the world around us - meaning
16. phoneme smallest unit of sound in a syllable
17. spelling sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, con-
nect grapheme to phoneme
18. orthography the spelling of written language
19. orthographic memory memory of letter patterns and word spellings
20. metalinguistics awareness of language as an entity
21. guided discovery a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
22. Heuristic means to discover by demonstration
23. grapheme a letter or letter cluster that represents a single
speech sound
24. decoding word recognition in which the phonetic code is
broken down to determine a word
25. blending fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
26. reading symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
27. morpheme the 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 recog-
nition, and spelling ability greatly depend on
knowledge of word structure at the level of mor-
phemes.
, CALT 2024/2025 ACTUAL EXAM PREP QUESTIONS
AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS|| GRADED A
28. morphology the study of word formation patterns, meaning-
ful units that make words
29. fricative a sound produced by forcing air through a nar-
row opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh /
/z/
30. nasal sound a sound produced by forcing air out through th
nose / n / / m /
31. continuant sound a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f
/
32. stop consonant sound a sound obstructed / they must be clipped off /
b//d/
33. aspiration puff of air
34. Norman Invasion 1066 A.D., had a great effect on English lan-
guage, William the Conqueror, French spo-
ken by upper class brought words like furni-
ture, 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
35. Number words one to a Anglo-Saxon
thousand
36. Most of the basic color Anglo-Saxon
words
37. The names of farm, forest Anglo-Saxon
and ocean animals
38. Outer body parts Anglo-Saxon
39. Short, common everyday Anglo-Saxon
words: the, run, and, play,
work
AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS|| GRADED A
1. Strephosymbolia means twisted symbols. The first term Orton
used for dyslexia.
2. phonetics the study of speech sounds in spoken language
3. phonological awareness the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and
phoneme levels
4. phonemic awareness awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
5. phonics instruction that connects sounds and letters
6. synthetic phonics explicitly teaches individual
grapheme-phoneme correspondences before
they are blended to form syllables or whole
words
7. alphabetic principle the understanding that spoken sounds are rep-
resented in print by written letters
8. consonant blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of
speech sounds with air flow that is constricted
or obstructed
9. vowel open and voiced sounds - a class of open
speech sounds produced by the passage of air
through an open vocal tract
10. phonology the rules that determine how sounds are used
in spoken language
11. fluency reading with rapidity and automaticity with
prosody
12. prosody the rhythmic flow of oral reading
13. pragmatics set of rules that dictate communicative behavior
and use of language, rules we communicate by
, CALT 2024/2025 ACTUAL EXAM PREP QUESTIONS
AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS|| GRADED A
14. syntax sentence structure, grammar, usage
15. semantics content of language, used to express knowl-
edge of the world around us - meaning
16. phoneme smallest unit of sound in a syllable
17. spelling sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, con-
nect grapheme to phoneme
18. orthography the spelling of written language
19. orthographic memory memory of letter patterns and word spellings
20. metalinguistics awareness of language as an entity
21. guided discovery a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
22. Heuristic means to discover by demonstration
23. grapheme a letter or letter cluster that represents a single
speech sound
24. decoding word recognition in which the phonetic code is
broken down to determine a word
25. blending fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
26. reading symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
27. morpheme the 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 recog-
nition, and spelling ability greatly depend on
knowledge of word structure at the level of mor-
phemes.
, CALT 2024/2025 ACTUAL EXAM PREP QUESTIONS
AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS|| GRADED A
28. morphology the study of word formation patterns, meaning-
ful units that make words
29. fricative a sound produced by forcing air through a nar-
row opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh /
/z/
30. nasal sound a sound produced by forcing air out through th
nose / n / / m /
31. continuant sound a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f
/
32. stop consonant sound a sound obstructed / they must be clipped off /
b//d/
33. aspiration puff of air
34. Norman Invasion 1066 A.D., had a great effect on English lan-
guage, William the Conqueror, French spo-
ken by upper class brought words like furni-
ture, 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
35. Number words one to a Anglo-Saxon
thousand
36. Most of the basic color Anglo-Saxon
words
37. The names of farm, forest Anglo-Saxon
and ocean animals
38. Outer body parts Anglo-Saxon
39. Short, common everyday Anglo-Saxon
words: the, run, and, play,
work
