CALT Exam Study Guide questions &
answers 2023
Rhyming - correct answersOne of the first phonological awareness skills to develop
Blending & segmenting at syllable level - correct answersDevelops at 3-4 years
Segmenting phonemes - correct answersDevelops at 4-5 years
Isolating beginning sound in words, segmenting phonemes in CVC words - correct
answersDevelops in kindergarten
Segmenting words with consonant blends - correct answersDevelops in first grade
Receptive oral language - correct answersListening
Expressive oral language - correct answersSpeaking
Receptive written language - correct answersReading
Expressive written language - correct answersWriting
__ letters representing __ phonemes - correct answers26, 44
5 vowel letters, __ vowel sounds - correct answers15
Long vowels - correct answersTense Vowels. (Beet, bait, boat, boot, bite, boy, bout) (a,
e, i, o, u, oy, ou, oo)
Short vowels - correct answersLax vowels - pat, pet, pit, pot, put, putt (a, e, i ,o, u, oo)
Fricatives - correct answersproduced by a constant flow of air through the vocal tract (f
and v)
Affricates - correct answersch/j
Glides - correct answersW, y
Liquids - correct answersl, r
Alphabetic principle - correct answersan understanding that letters and letter patterns
represent the sounds of spoken language
Six syllable types - correct answersclosed, open, VCe, C+le, R controlled, vowel pairs
, Semantics - correct answersLanguage content— meaning of words and the relationship
between and among words
Pragmatics - correct answersLanguage use— reasons, codes/styles, conversation rules
Phonology - correct answersthe study of speech sounds in language
Morphology - correct answersunits of meaning involved in word formation
Syntax - correct answersthe rules for combining words into grammatically sensible
sentences in a given language
Teutonic Invasion - correct answersShifted the balance of power in Central Europe
leading up to the Christianizing of Britain
Norman Conquest - correct answersBegan in 1066. Led by William the Conquerer. His
military victory at the Battle of Hastings led to Norman control of England. This control
would influence England more with continental Europe than Scandinavian culture.
Would also lead to rivalry between England and France for the next millenium.
Renaissance - correct answers"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that
centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
The Great Vowel Shift - correct answersa phonetic shift in the way that long vowels
were pronounced in English
Dyslexia - correct answersA specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is
a deficit in the phonological component of language and is characterized by poor
spelling and decoding abilities.
Inferior frontal gyrus - correct answersBroca's area — articulation and word analysis
Parieto-temporal area - correct answersBrain part responsible for word analysis
Occipito-temporal region - correct answersThe vision center — word form
Angular gyrus - correct answerstransforms visual representations into an auditory code
Wernicke's area - correct answerscontrols language reception - a brain area involved in
language comprehension and expression; in the parieto-temporal lobe
Decode - correct answersDetermine pronunciation of a word by breaking it down into
sounds
Encode - correct answersTo spell
answers 2023
Rhyming - correct answersOne of the first phonological awareness skills to develop
Blending & segmenting at syllable level - correct answersDevelops at 3-4 years
Segmenting phonemes - correct answersDevelops at 4-5 years
Isolating beginning sound in words, segmenting phonemes in CVC words - correct
answersDevelops in kindergarten
Segmenting words with consonant blends - correct answersDevelops in first grade
Receptive oral language - correct answersListening
Expressive oral language - correct answersSpeaking
Receptive written language - correct answersReading
Expressive written language - correct answersWriting
__ letters representing __ phonemes - correct answers26, 44
5 vowel letters, __ vowel sounds - correct answers15
Long vowels - correct answersTense Vowels. (Beet, bait, boat, boot, bite, boy, bout) (a,
e, i, o, u, oy, ou, oo)
Short vowels - correct answersLax vowels - pat, pet, pit, pot, put, putt (a, e, i ,o, u, oo)
Fricatives - correct answersproduced by a constant flow of air through the vocal tract (f
and v)
Affricates - correct answersch/j
Glides - correct answersW, y
Liquids - correct answersl, r
Alphabetic principle - correct answersan understanding that letters and letter patterns
represent the sounds of spoken language
Six syllable types - correct answersclosed, open, VCe, C+le, R controlled, vowel pairs
, Semantics - correct answersLanguage content— meaning of words and the relationship
between and among words
Pragmatics - correct answersLanguage use— reasons, codes/styles, conversation rules
Phonology - correct answersthe study of speech sounds in language
Morphology - correct answersunits of meaning involved in word formation
Syntax - correct answersthe rules for combining words into grammatically sensible
sentences in a given language
Teutonic Invasion - correct answersShifted the balance of power in Central Europe
leading up to the Christianizing of Britain
Norman Conquest - correct answersBegan in 1066. Led by William the Conquerer. His
military victory at the Battle of Hastings led to Norman control of England. This control
would influence England more with continental Europe than Scandinavian culture.
Would also lead to rivalry between England and France for the next millenium.
Renaissance - correct answers"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that
centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
The Great Vowel Shift - correct answersa phonetic shift in the way that long vowels
were pronounced in English
Dyslexia - correct answersA specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is
a deficit in the phonological component of language and is characterized by poor
spelling and decoding abilities.
Inferior frontal gyrus - correct answersBroca's area — articulation and word analysis
Parieto-temporal area - correct answersBrain part responsible for word analysis
Occipito-temporal region - correct answersThe vision center — word form
Angular gyrus - correct answerstransforms visual representations into an auditory code
Wernicke's area - correct answerscontrols language reception - a brain area involved in
language comprehension and expression; in the parieto-temporal lobe
Decode - correct answersDetermine pronunciation of a word by breaking it down into
sounds
Encode - correct answersTo spell
