2026 CALT ALTA Exam Questions and Answers
1. decoding: recognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound correspondence, and blending sounds into a word
are all part of-
2. Pre-Reading Stage: language appreciation, awareness of printed words, mastery of alphabet and simple
words
3. Greek elements: eu, chloro
4. Current Research on the brain and developmental dyslexia: A "glitch" may have taken
place during fetal development
5. Dyslexia and Social Development: May see: a lack of good judgement, the inability to stick with a
game, erratic emotional behavior
6. Grade equivalent scores: Not a dependable representation of progress
7. Woodcock Johnson Psycho-Education Battery: a cognitive/ norm referenced test
8. synthetic instruction: Teaching phonics by taking sounds and blending them together into words.
9. analytic instruction: Teaching phonics by taking words and breaking them into parts. Whole to part
approach.
10. linguistics: Study of production, properties, structure, meaning and or use of language.
11. % of students with specific learning disabilities receiving special education
services that have a deficit in reading: 70-80%
12. According to the National Reading Panel (2000) this represents the strongest
indication of a reading disability: a deficit in phonology
13. Section 504 and IDEA: A person who has, has a history of having, or is regarded as having an impairment
that significantly limits one or more of life's major functions receives benefits under
14. Appropriate education under Section 504 may include: regular classroom, regular
classroom with accommodations, or special education and related services
15. ALTA Code of Ethics and IMSLEC: provide reasonable expectations of student outcomes to parents
and students
16. Recommendations for private students: give parents documentation of the services received
from you and discuss gradual transition into the classroom
17. Professional Communication: Personal pronouns are unprofessional
18. ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
19. ALTA: Academic Language Therapy Association
20. ESL: English as a Second Language
21. IDEA: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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22. IEP: Individualized Education Plan
23. IMSLEC: International Multi-sensory Structured Education Council
24. MSL: Multisensory Structured Language
25. MSLE: Multisensory Structured Language Education
26. NICHD: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
27. VAKT: Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
28. WRAT: Wide Range Achievement Test
29. swing up, stop: i,t,p,u,w,j,r,s
30. push up and over: m,n,v,x,y,z
31. curve under, over, stop: a, ca, d,g,o,q
32. curve way up, loop left: b,f,h,k,l,e
33. grapheme: single letters or groups of letter groups that represent specific phonemes or speech sounds
34. Closed syllable: napkin, button
35. Open syllable: lilac, tulip
36. Vowel- consonant e: shake, shine
37. Vowel pair: bread, nail
38. Vowel-r: doctor, dollar
39. Final Stable: cable, sandle,stle
40. Inflectional suffixes: when added to a base word change the number, tense, voice, mood, or compari-
son.
-s, -er (more than), -ed, -est -ing
41. Derivational suffixes are: added to a base word or root and change the part of speech or the function
of the base word.
-less, -ful, -ness, - cian
42. Doubling rule: one vowel, one consonant, one accent, and a vowel suflx is being added
43. Silent e situations: to make a vowel long, to make a c or g soft, part of consonant le, added when the word
ends in a final v
44. norm-referenced test: assessment that measures performance in relation to a norm cohort or group
45. criterion referenced test: assessment that measures knowledge attained and knowledge yet to be
acquired in a domain
46. curriculum-referenced test: assessment that measures knowledge that has been taught
47. screening: brief assessment that identifies students who may need additional or alternate forms of instruction
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48. progress monitoring: periodic assessment that measures progress in response to specific intstruction
49. diagnostic measure: assessment that provides a detailed analysis of a student's strengths and weake-
nesses
50. outcome measure: assessment that classifies a student in terms of achievement or improvement of
grade-level performance
51. formal assessment: standardized assessment that must be administered and scored according to pre-
scribed procedures
52. informal assessment: assessments that are not standardized
53. pseudowords: nonsense words that are phonetically regular
54. formative data: data collected that provides information about knowledge to be applied to short-term goals
55. summative data: data collected that provides information about knowledge to be applied for long-term
comprehensive goals
56. DIBELS: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills, K-3, early literacy skills
57. TPRI: Texas Primary Reading Inventory, starts in K and includes inventories through 3rd grade. focuses on age
appropriate skills.
58. PALS: Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening, for PK-3rd, allows teachers to find weaknesses
59. qualitative research: research that collects data through various kinds of observations
60. quantitative research: research in which results are based on a large sample that is representative of
the population
61. experimental research: research in which the subjects are randomly assigned to experimental and
control groups
62. quasi-experimental research: Research that determines cause and ettect, conducted without ran-
domized assignment of subjects to experimental and control groups
63. metacognition: deliberate rearrangement of information; strategies used to accomplish and process feed-
back for learning
64. Parieto-temporal region: area of the brain for language development (word analysis)
65. Broca's region of the brain: area of the brain for speech production (articulation and word analysis)
66. occipito-temporal region: interractive neural area of the brain where phonological, orthographic and
semantic are integrated and synthesized (word form)
67. auditory: related to hearing
68. visual: related to seeing
69. modality: a specific sensory pathway
1. decoding: recognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound correspondence, and blending sounds into a word
are all part of-
2. Pre-Reading Stage: language appreciation, awareness of printed words, mastery of alphabet and simple
words
3. Greek elements: eu, chloro
4. Current Research on the brain and developmental dyslexia: A "glitch" may have taken
place during fetal development
5. Dyslexia and Social Development: May see: a lack of good judgement, the inability to stick with a
game, erratic emotional behavior
6. Grade equivalent scores: Not a dependable representation of progress
7. Woodcock Johnson Psycho-Education Battery: a cognitive/ norm referenced test
8. synthetic instruction: Teaching phonics by taking sounds and blending them together into words.
9. analytic instruction: Teaching phonics by taking words and breaking them into parts. Whole to part
approach.
10. linguistics: Study of production, properties, structure, meaning and or use of language.
11. % of students with specific learning disabilities receiving special education
services that have a deficit in reading: 70-80%
12. According to the National Reading Panel (2000) this represents the strongest
indication of a reading disability: a deficit in phonology
13. Section 504 and IDEA: A person who has, has a history of having, or is regarded as having an impairment
that significantly limits one or more of life's major functions receives benefits under
14. Appropriate education under Section 504 may include: regular classroom, regular
classroom with accommodations, or special education and related services
15. ALTA Code of Ethics and IMSLEC: provide reasonable expectations of student outcomes to parents
and students
16. Recommendations for private students: give parents documentation of the services received
from you and discuss gradual transition into the classroom
17. Professional Communication: Personal pronouns are unprofessional
18. ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
19. ALTA: Academic Language Therapy Association
20. ESL: English as a Second Language
21. IDEA: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
, 2026 CALT ALTA Exam Questions and Answers
22. IEP: Individualized Education Plan
23. IMSLEC: International Multi-sensory Structured Education Council
24. MSL: Multisensory Structured Language
25. MSLE: Multisensory Structured Language Education
26. NICHD: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
27. VAKT: Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
28. WRAT: Wide Range Achievement Test
29. swing up, stop: i,t,p,u,w,j,r,s
30. push up and over: m,n,v,x,y,z
31. curve under, over, stop: a, ca, d,g,o,q
32. curve way up, loop left: b,f,h,k,l,e
33. grapheme: single letters or groups of letter groups that represent specific phonemes or speech sounds
34. Closed syllable: napkin, button
35. Open syllable: lilac, tulip
36. Vowel- consonant e: shake, shine
37. Vowel pair: bread, nail
38. Vowel-r: doctor, dollar
39. Final Stable: cable, sandle,stle
40. Inflectional suffixes: when added to a base word change the number, tense, voice, mood, or compari-
son.
-s, -er (more than), -ed, -est -ing
41. Derivational suffixes are: added to a base word or root and change the part of speech or the function
of the base word.
-less, -ful, -ness, - cian
42. Doubling rule: one vowel, one consonant, one accent, and a vowel suflx is being added
43. Silent e situations: to make a vowel long, to make a c or g soft, part of consonant le, added when the word
ends in a final v
44. norm-referenced test: assessment that measures performance in relation to a norm cohort or group
45. criterion referenced test: assessment that measures knowledge attained and knowledge yet to be
acquired in a domain
46. curriculum-referenced test: assessment that measures knowledge that has been taught
47. screening: brief assessment that identifies students who may need additional or alternate forms of instruction
, 2026 CALT ALTA Exam Questions and Answers
48. progress monitoring: periodic assessment that measures progress in response to specific intstruction
49. diagnostic measure: assessment that provides a detailed analysis of a student's strengths and weake-
nesses
50. outcome measure: assessment that classifies a student in terms of achievement or improvement of
grade-level performance
51. formal assessment: standardized assessment that must be administered and scored according to pre-
scribed procedures
52. informal assessment: assessments that are not standardized
53. pseudowords: nonsense words that are phonetically regular
54. formative data: data collected that provides information about knowledge to be applied to short-term goals
55. summative data: data collected that provides information about knowledge to be applied for long-term
comprehensive goals
56. DIBELS: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills, K-3, early literacy skills
57. TPRI: Texas Primary Reading Inventory, starts in K and includes inventories through 3rd grade. focuses on age
appropriate skills.
58. PALS: Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening, for PK-3rd, allows teachers to find weaknesses
59. qualitative research: research that collects data through various kinds of observations
60. quantitative research: research in which results are based on a large sample that is representative of
the population
61. experimental research: research in which the subjects are randomly assigned to experimental and
control groups
62. quasi-experimental research: Research that determines cause and ettect, conducted without ran-
domized assignment of subjects to experimental and control groups
63. metacognition: deliberate rearrangement of information; strategies used to accomplish and process feed-
back for learning
64. Parieto-temporal region: area of the brain for language development (word analysis)
65. Broca's region of the brain: area of the brain for speech production (articulation and word analysis)
66. occipito-temporal region: interractive neural area of the brain where phonological, orthographic and
semantic are integrated and synthesized (word form)
67. auditory: related to hearing
68. visual: related to seeing
69. modality: a specific sensory pathway
