CALT Exam SCRIPT 2026/2027 WITH EXPERT-
VERIFIED ANSWERS RATED A+
• Alphabetic Principle -✓✓ an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the
sounds of spoken words.
• 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
• 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
• auditory discrimination -✓✓ The ability to hear differences in sounds
• auditory span -✓✓ the number of words, numbers, or sounds a student can hold in his
working memory. Can limit dictation or note taking.
• blend -✓✓ two or more sounds that are frequently grouped together- each sound can
be separated into its individual components
• cedilla -✓✓ a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is
pronounced as an s
• circumflex -✓✓ the code marked placed over vowels to indicate an unusual
pronunciation
• compensatory approach -✓✓ one does not attempt to remediate the problem but
instead recommends modifications within the learning environment which allows the
student to be successful
• Cloze Procedure -✓✓ The use of semantic and syntactic clues to aid in completing
sentences."Fill in the blank"
• Coding -✓✓ putting code marks on words- encourages kinesthetic involvement and
discourages guessing
• combination -✓✓ a pattern of letters which occurs frequently together. They form an
unexpected sound (vr's, qu, wh)
• comorbid -✓✓ two or more disorders in the same individual
, • consonant -✓✓ sounds that are blocked or partially blocked by the tongue teeth and
lips
• Decoding -✓✓ using the sound/symbol system and structural analysis to unlock
unfamiliar words (synthetic)
• derivative -✓✓ adding a prefix or a suffix to a base word
• diacritical markings -✓✓ a mark indicating pronunciation
• dieresis -✓✓ two dots over an a (a)
• diphthong -✓✓ The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or
running together the sounds. (ow, oi)
• discovery method -✓✓ Presentation of new material which can be deduced or
discovered by the students (Socratic Method)
• Dolch List -✓✓ high frequency word list which may be regular or irregular
• crossed, mixed dominance -✓✓ the student who is NOT right handed, right eyed, and
right footed or left handed, left eyed, left footed
• Dyscalculia -✓✓ unusual difficulty with math, probably originating from a distinct part of
the brain
• Encoding -✓✓ to spell (analytic)
• etymology -✓✓ the study of word origins
• Fernald -✓✓ developed a kinesthetic system for teaching the deaf by tracing words.
Orton used her work as his kinesthetic model and was influenced by her work.
• Grapheme -✓✓ Letter or group of letters used to spell a phoneme. A written
representation of a sound using one or more letters.
• irregular words -✓✓ Words that contain letters that stray from the most common sound
pronunciation; words that do not follow common phonic patterns (e.g., were, was, laugh,
been).
• linguistics -✓✓ study of the production, properties, structure, meaning and use of
language. "Multisensory letter introduction"
VERIFIED ANSWERS RATED A+
• Alphabetic Principle -✓✓ an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the
sounds of spoken words.
• 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
• 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
• auditory discrimination -✓✓ The ability to hear differences in sounds
• auditory span -✓✓ the number of words, numbers, or sounds a student can hold in his
working memory. Can limit dictation or note taking.
• blend -✓✓ two or more sounds that are frequently grouped together- each sound can
be separated into its individual components
• cedilla -✓✓ a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is
pronounced as an s
• circumflex -✓✓ the code marked placed over vowels to indicate an unusual
pronunciation
• compensatory approach -✓✓ one does not attempt to remediate the problem but
instead recommends modifications within the learning environment which allows the
student to be successful
• Cloze Procedure -✓✓ The use of semantic and syntactic clues to aid in completing
sentences."Fill in the blank"
• Coding -✓✓ putting code marks on words- encourages kinesthetic involvement and
discourages guessing
• combination -✓✓ a pattern of letters which occurs frequently together. They form an
unexpected sound (vr's, qu, wh)
• comorbid -✓✓ two or more disorders in the same individual
, • consonant -✓✓ sounds that are blocked or partially blocked by the tongue teeth and
lips
• Decoding -✓✓ using the sound/symbol system and structural analysis to unlock
unfamiliar words (synthetic)
• derivative -✓✓ adding a prefix or a suffix to a base word
• diacritical markings -✓✓ a mark indicating pronunciation
• dieresis -✓✓ two dots over an a (a)
• diphthong -✓✓ The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or
running together the sounds. (ow, oi)
• discovery method -✓✓ Presentation of new material which can be deduced or
discovered by the students (Socratic Method)
• Dolch List -✓✓ high frequency word list which may be regular or irregular
• crossed, mixed dominance -✓✓ the student who is NOT right handed, right eyed, and
right footed or left handed, left eyed, left footed
• Dyscalculia -✓✓ unusual difficulty with math, probably originating from a distinct part of
the brain
• Encoding -✓✓ to spell (analytic)
• etymology -✓✓ the study of word origins
• Fernald -✓✓ developed a kinesthetic system for teaching the deaf by tracing words.
Orton used her work as his kinesthetic model and was influenced by her work.
• Grapheme -✓✓ Letter or group of letters used to spell a phoneme. A written
representation of a sound using one or more letters.
• irregular words -✓✓ Words that contain letters that stray from the most common sound
pronunciation; words that do not follow common phonic patterns (e.g., were, was, laugh,
been).
• linguistics -✓✓ study of the production, properties, structure, meaning and use of
language. "Multisensory letter introduction"
