CALT Exam Question and Answer (2026) |
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• phonological awareness . Answer: the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
• phonemic awareness . Answer: awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
• phonics . Answer: instruction that connects sounds and letters
• synthetic phonics . Answer: explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
• alphabetic principle . Answer: the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
• consonant . Answer: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech
sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
• vowel . Answer: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
• phonology . Answer: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
• fluency . Answer: reading with rapidity and automaticity
• prosody . Answer: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
• pragmatics . Answer: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
• syntax . Answer: sentence structure, grammar, usage
• semantics . Answer: content of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
,• phoneme . Answer: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
• spelling . Answer: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
• orthography . Answer: the spelling of written language
• orthographic memory . Answer: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
• metalinguistics . Answer: awareness of language as an entity
• guided discovery . Answer: a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
• Heuristic . Answer: means to discover by demonstration
• grapheme . Answer: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
• decoding . Answer: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down
to determine a word
• blending . Answer: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful
units
• reading . Answer: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
• morpheme . Answer: 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 recognition, and spelling ability greatly
depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
• morphology . Answer: the study of word formation patterns, meaningful units
that make words
• fricative . Answer: a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
• nasal sound . Answer: a sound produced by forcing air out through th nose / n / /
m/
, • continuant sound . Answer: a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f /
• stop consonant sound . Answer: a sound obstructed / they must be clipped off / b /
/d/
• aspiration . Answer: puff of air
• Norman Invasion . Answer: 1066 A.D., had a great effect on English language,
William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words like furniture,
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
• Number words one to a thousand . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Most of the basic color words . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• The names of farm, forest and ocean animals . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Outer body parts . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with gh: laugh, cough, right, high . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with ck: pick, duck, sack . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with k: king, kiss, kilt, hook . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with kn or gn in initial position: knee, knife, gnat, gnash . Answer: Anglo-
Saxon
• Words with tw: twin, twilight, between . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with wr: write, wring, wrist . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Short words with ch pronounced /ch/ chest, cheap . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• One-syllable words with tch: witch, hatch, match . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• One-syllable words with dge: edge, ridge, hedge . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
Grade A+ | Premium Study Set
• phonological awareness . Answer: the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
• phonemic awareness . Answer: awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
• phonics . Answer: instruction that connects sounds and letters
• synthetic phonics . Answer: explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
• alphabetic principle . Answer: the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
• consonant . Answer: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech
sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
• vowel . Answer: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
• phonology . Answer: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
• fluency . Answer: reading with rapidity and automaticity
• prosody . Answer: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
• pragmatics . Answer: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
• syntax . Answer: sentence structure, grammar, usage
• semantics . Answer: content of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
,• phoneme . Answer: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
• spelling . Answer: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
• orthography . Answer: the spelling of written language
• orthographic memory . Answer: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
• metalinguistics . Answer: awareness of language as an entity
• guided discovery . Answer: a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
• Heuristic . Answer: means to discover by demonstration
• grapheme . Answer: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
• decoding . Answer: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down
to determine a word
• blending . Answer: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful
units
• reading . Answer: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
• morpheme . Answer: 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 recognition, and spelling ability greatly
depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
• morphology . Answer: the study of word formation patterns, meaningful units
that make words
• fricative . Answer: a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
• nasal sound . Answer: a sound produced by forcing air out through th nose / n / /
m/
, • continuant sound . Answer: a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f /
• stop consonant sound . Answer: a sound obstructed / they must be clipped off / b /
/d/
• aspiration . Answer: puff of air
• Norman Invasion . Answer: 1066 A.D., had a great effect on English language,
William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words like furniture,
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
• Number words one to a thousand . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Most of the basic color words . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• The names of farm, forest and ocean animals . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Outer body parts . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with gh: laugh, cough, right, high . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with ck: pick, duck, sack . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with k: king, kiss, kilt, hook . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with kn or gn in initial position: knee, knife, gnat, gnash . Answer: Anglo-
Saxon
• Words with tw: twin, twilight, between . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Words with wr: write, wring, wrist . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• Short words with ch pronounced /ch/ chest, cheap . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• One-syllable words with tch: witch, hatch, match . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
• One-syllable words with dge: edge, ridge, hedge . Answer: Anglo-Saxon
