ALTA Study Guide Question and
answers correctly solved 2025/2026
Dyslexia: - correct answer ✔An unexpected written language disorder that is neurological in origin.
Difficulties with:
Accurate/fluent word recognition
Spelling
Decoding abilities
Misread common words, choppy, hesitant
Normal intellect
Core deficit- Phonological Awareness
Dysgraphia- - correct answer ✔difficulty or poor handwriting
Strephosymbolia- - correct answer ✔Twisted symbols, 1st term used to describe dyslexia coined by S.
Orton
Phonetics- - correct answer ✔the study of speech sounds
Phonological Awareness- - correct answer ✔ability to focus on units of sounds in spoken language and
sentence/words/syllable/phoneme levels
Phonemic Awareness- - correct answer ✔awareness of speech sounds/phonemes in spoken words
Phonics- - correct answer ✔instruction that connects sounds -> letters
, Phonology- - correct answer ✔rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language
Alphabetic Principle- - correct answer ✔understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by
written letters *Cox-Childs*
Phoneme- - correct answer ✔smallest unit of sound
Fluency- - correct answer ✔reading with rapidity and automaticity
Prosody- - correct answer ✔rhythmic flow of oral reading
Pragmatics- - correct answer ✔set of rules that dictate communicative behavior- rules we
communicate by
Syntax- - correct answer ✔sentence structure ***Grammar
Semantics- - correct answer ✔word meaning
Grapheme- - correct answer ✔a letter or cluster of letters that represent a single speech sound
Orthography- - correct answer ✔spelling of written language
Orthographic memory- - correct answer ✔memory of letter patterns and word spellings
Metalinguistics- - correct answer ✔awareness of language as an entity
answers correctly solved 2025/2026
Dyslexia: - correct answer ✔An unexpected written language disorder that is neurological in origin.
Difficulties with:
Accurate/fluent word recognition
Spelling
Decoding abilities
Misread common words, choppy, hesitant
Normal intellect
Core deficit- Phonological Awareness
Dysgraphia- - correct answer ✔difficulty or poor handwriting
Strephosymbolia- - correct answer ✔Twisted symbols, 1st term used to describe dyslexia coined by S.
Orton
Phonetics- - correct answer ✔the study of speech sounds
Phonological Awareness- - correct answer ✔ability to focus on units of sounds in spoken language and
sentence/words/syllable/phoneme levels
Phonemic Awareness- - correct answer ✔awareness of speech sounds/phonemes in spoken words
Phonics- - correct answer ✔instruction that connects sounds -> letters
, Phonology- - correct answer ✔rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language
Alphabetic Principle- - correct answer ✔understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by
written letters *Cox-Childs*
Phoneme- - correct answer ✔smallest unit of sound
Fluency- - correct answer ✔reading with rapidity and automaticity
Prosody- - correct answer ✔rhythmic flow of oral reading
Pragmatics- - correct answer ✔set of rules that dictate communicative behavior- rules we
communicate by
Syntax- - correct answer ✔sentence structure ***Grammar
Semantics- - correct answer ✔word meaning
Grapheme- - correct answer ✔a letter or cluster of letters that represent a single speech sound
Orthography- - correct answer ✔spelling of written language
Orthographic memory- - correct answer ✔memory of letter patterns and word spellings
Metalinguistics- - correct answer ✔awareness of language as an entity
