CALT Exam Question and Answer (2026) |
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• 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
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• 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
