CALT Exam Prep Grade A+

CALT Exam Prep Strephosymbolia ANSWER means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for dyslexia. phonetics ANSWER the study of speech sounds in spoken language 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