CALT Exam 2026/2027 NEWEST VERIFIED
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
• visual perception -✓✓ the ability for your brain to process what it sees
• Criterion Reference Tests -✓✓ measures what you know and what you still need to
learn.
• Norm Referenced Tests -✓✓ standardized tests that compare an individual child's
score to the average score of others her age
• Curriculum Referenced Tests -✓✓ measures what you have learned from the
curriculum being taught.
• Semi Colon Use -✓✓ between items in a series; join two sentences which are closely
linked. I like cows; however, I hate the way they smell.
• Quotations -✓✓ The , or . always comes before the final "
• Gymnasium -✓✓ Greek
• Scientific words -✓✓ Greek
• 4 Principles of ALTA code of Ethics -✓✓ 1. Personal Conduct
2. Professional Conduct
3. Conflict of Interest
4. Confidentiality
• 7 Categories of Comprehension Instruction -✓✓ 1. Monitoring
2. Cooperative Learning
3. Graphic Organizer/Semantic Organizer
4. Questioning/Answering
5. Generating Questions (STRONGEST)
6. Story Structures
7. Summarization
• Direct Instruction -✓✓ Explicitly taught
• Sytematic -✓✓ Follows a logical order
• IDEA -✓✓ Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (Birth - age 21); Department of
Education
, • Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 -✓✓ Civil rights given to individuals with
disabilities- focused on stopping discrimination in education, employment, or any other
community setting. Required compliance for federal funds. No age limit. OCR
• affix -✓✓ added to the beginning or ending of a b.w to change its meaning (Prefix) or
form/usage (Suffix)
• Linguistic method -✓✓ students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship b/w
letters/sounds. Whole language roots; Ex: word families
• Connectionist theory -✓✓ Children acquire language by connecting what they already
know to new learning; reading helps spelling
• Decoding -✓✓ Reading
• Encoding -✓✓ Spelling
• accent -✓✓ placing stress on one syllable in a word
• 5 components of reading -✓✓ PA, phonics, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary
• VAKT -✓✓ visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile
• IEP -✓✓ Individualized Education Plan
• MSLE -✓✓ Multisensory Structured Language Education
• IMSLEC -✓✓ International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council
• Receptive -✓✓ Taking in information ; ability to process language; reading and
listening
• Expressive -✓✓ Verbal expression
Syntax/Morphology/Semantics
Spelling/writing/speaking/gesturing
• Continuum of skills -✓✓ hearing>talking>reading>writing
• Syntax -✓✓ sentence structure
grammar
sentence variation
mechanics
• Semantics -✓✓ Concerned with meaning
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
• visual perception -✓✓ the ability for your brain to process what it sees
• Criterion Reference Tests -✓✓ measures what you know and what you still need to
learn.
• Norm Referenced Tests -✓✓ standardized tests that compare an individual child's
score to the average score of others her age
• Curriculum Referenced Tests -✓✓ measures what you have learned from the
curriculum being taught.
• Semi Colon Use -✓✓ between items in a series; join two sentences which are closely
linked. I like cows; however, I hate the way they smell.
• Quotations -✓✓ The , or . always comes before the final "
• Gymnasium -✓✓ Greek
• Scientific words -✓✓ Greek
• 4 Principles of ALTA code of Ethics -✓✓ 1. Personal Conduct
2. Professional Conduct
3. Conflict of Interest
4. Confidentiality
• 7 Categories of Comprehension Instruction -✓✓ 1. Monitoring
2. Cooperative Learning
3. Graphic Organizer/Semantic Organizer
4. Questioning/Answering
5. Generating Questions (STRONGEST)
6. Story Structures
7. Summarization
• Direct Instruction -✓✓ Explicitly taught
• Sytematic -✓✓ Follows a logical order
• IDEA -✓✓ Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (Birth - age 21); Department of
Education
, • Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 -✓✓ Civil rights given to individuals with
disabilities- focused on stopping discrimination in education, employment, or any other
community setting. Required compliance for federal funds. No age limit. OCR
• affix -✓✓ added to the beginning or ending of a b.w to change its meaning (Prefix) or
form/usage (Suffix)
• Linguistic method -✓✓ students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship b/w
letters/sounds. Whole language roots; Ex: word families
• Connectionist theory -✓✓ Children acquire language by connecting what they already
know to new learning; reading helps spelling
• Decoding -✓✓ Reading
• Encoding -✓✓ Spelling
• accent -✓✓ placing stress on one syllable in a word
• 5 components of reading -✓✓ PA, phonics, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary
• VAKT -✓✓ visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile
• IEP -✓✓ Individualized Education Plan
• MSLE -✓✓ Multisensory Structured Language Education
• IMSLEC -✓✓ International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council
• Receptive -✓✓ Taking in information ; ability to process language; reading and
listening
• Expressive -✓✓ Verbal expression
Syntax/Morphology/Semantics
Spelling/writing/speaking/gesturing
• Continuum of skills -✓✓ hearing>talking>reading>writing
• Syntax -✓✓ sentence structure
grammar
sentence variation
mechanics
• Semantics -✓✓ Concerned with meaning
